President Obama’s second-term nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, has a famously loopy signature. The question is: is it too illegible for the signature printed on U.S. paper currency? Continue reading
Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half … Continue reading
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James Madison was perhaps the most influential figure when it came to the writing of both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. When he states his view/warning on the wealthy’s influence on the government he’s designing, we should probably take heed. Continue reading
I also wonder how the Tennessee lawmakers would feel if, say, teachers used this potential law to teach about Islam, or astrology, or Wiccan beliefs. That would be interesting indeed. This is what I’ve been saying. via Tennessee legislature boldly … Continue reading
I’ve written a number of articles that haven’t been put out for public consumption. You see, when the world goes mad, it can be like a minefield when you try to shine a light on it. You are never completely sure when you might take a wrong step and have everything blow up in your face. And yet, silence isn’t a viable option. Continue reading
My friend Diane nutshelled the insidious religi-political attack on women by a bunch of misogynistic poopy-heads. I’m frankly ashamed that so many regular citizens buy into this anti-women rhetoric…and even embrace it. If only women had actually done something to … Continue reading
You know…just about anything other than lawyers, fer cryin’ out loud. Since 1981, lawyers have accounted for 46-to-48 percent of the members of Congress (a greater percentage in the Senate (about 60%) than the House (around 38%)). Why don’t Americans … Continue reading
To the outside observer, it seems like the U.S. Government treats the funding of NASA with the same care and understanding as they do the United States Postal Service. The outside observer would be wrong; it’s not handled nearly as well. And the USPS is going bankrupt…so that sort of gives you an idea of how bad the problem is. Continue reading
This week starts another chunk of my life that must be tithed to jury duty. Ugh. I loathe serving jury duty. Having served on juries in the past, this isn’t just theoretical for me. I know I loathe serving jury duty. Continue reading
“Our space program is one of the things that makes us great, that sets us far apart from other productive countries, that makes us respectable, that makes our advice worth listening to.” I was going to write a blog entry … Continue reading
“There ought to be a law, I think, that in order to regulate something you have to have some understanding of it.” All evidence points to the fact that Congress has passed a majority of laws without having the foggiest … Continue reading
Following the failure and crash of a Russian Progress M-12M cargo vehicle, there has been a lot of alarmist rhetoric about the future of the ISS as well as American spaceflight capability. Let’s take a step back to look at the situation without a “sky is falling” mentality. Continue reading
With trillions of dollars of spending, revenue, and debt, it can be tough to have more than a theoretical handle on what all this Federal Budget nonsense is all about. Why don’t we scale it down a bit so we can get a better grasp on what the “fine folk” in Washington are doing. Continue reading
The founders understood the lessons of history, and were keen observers of human nature. As a group, we here in the now clearly aren’t. What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations.
I get more and more impressed with Paulina’s levelheadedness–and not just on politics. Given a choice between another politician “representing” me in Congress or Paulina, I’m going with the supermodel. (No, I never thought I’d say that sentence, but honesty … Continue reading
