Everything happens faster in the modern world than it used to. This is natural. It’s basically a side-effect of more advanced technology. Communications are faster; transport of people and goods is faster. Change, even, in infrastructure and society is faster.…
Tariff Limits: A Long Time Coming, A Longer Time Going
It took almost 2 months, but a court has finally ruled that Trump’s Libation Day tariffs are illegal and unconstitutional. And now … the inevitable appeals. So, ya know, don’t start celebrating yet. The illegal part is simple: the law…
Unitary Executive: Proving The Anti-Federalists Were Right
OK, it took over 200 years to get to this point, but with the Supreme Court’s turn to the bogus “Unitary Executive” concept it looks like the Anti-Federalist position is being proved correct. So, yay? Predicting that a strong central…
Trumpian Follies: Continent-sized Missile Defense Is Fools Gold
Donald Trump has … a thing … about nuclear war; it’s clear that the Cold War left a lasting impression on his psyche. And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! – Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor…
Actually Obscene: The State Should Not Be Legislating Obscenity
The State should not be regulating obscenity. In general, the State should not be regulating speech. That is, after all, one of the main points of the 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech…
Spreading It Around: One Person, One Job
I discussed this problem before during what was at the time the worst and most corrupt Presidency in this country’s long and distinguished history of terrible Presidencies. But of course it’s back again. There was a whole presidential term in…
Mind The Gap: The Are No Actual Guardrails
The U.S. government was created by a bunch of comfortably-well-off dudes who never really thought it’d be controlled by people who seriously disagreed with them. That’s why it has no real blocks to serious abuses of power. Sure, they figured…
Identity Politics: They’re All Doing It
There’s been a lot of whinging about “identity politics” lately. From both major parties. The Democrats complain about how white, male, rural, evangelical christian the rhetoric of the Republicans is. Which is true, they do do that. And the Republicans…
Getting REAL: I Don’t Care About Showing ID To Vote
Honestly, I’m kinda in favor of the U.S. having a national ID card and of requiring it to vote and whatever else. Heck, even Costco has a membership card. There’s a better argument for requiring an ID to vote than…
Dueling Sovereigns: The Feds Are Arresting State Judges
Well, this wasn’t what I’d intended to write about today. Oh, well. You go to blog with the jackbooted fascist thuggery you have, not the reasoned discussion of political philosophy you want to have. You should read that linked article,…