Am I a Citizen?
Reading some of the discussion of the fourteenth amendment and juristiction on the Internet, it makes me wonder. I was born in the United States, as was my father and his father before him, but my...
View ArticleMark Sanford must go
Looking towards a run for president in 2012, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina played games refusing to accept stimulus funds from the federal government to boost his right-wing credentials,...
View ArticleDeath to robocallers
I got angry today, after the 7th recorded political phone call from Mitt Romney in just 2 days. I called the campaign and I gave them a piece of my mind. Romney, while the most egregious robocaller, is...
View ArticleIs Mitt Romney a Christian?
I think all American Presidents have either been Christians or perhaps non-religious freethinkers. John Kennedy broke the “no Catholics” barrier and Richard Nixon was a Quaker. It’s almost a done deal...
View ArticleLindsey Graham and Immigration
I got an email from my senator, Lindsey Graham, this morning. He said: I believe it is breathtaking – and possibly illegal – that President Obama would simply say ‘Stop Enforcing the Law.’ He’s going...
View ArticleEntitlement
In case you’ve been off planet today and haven’t seen Today’s Mitt Romney video, take a minute and watch it. Mitt Romney is speaking about 47% of Americans who he thinks believe that they are...
View ArticleMore flexible after the election
Mitt Romney brought up Obama’s intended-private remark to Vladimir Putin that he could be “more flexible after the election.” While this moment of candor was considered by Romney a negative, it’s true....
View ArticleDon’t be afraid
I really don’t understand people who are predicting the end of the world as they know it based on who wins the 2012 Presidential election. I was reminded of my trip to Dresden, Germany, earlier in the...
View ArticleUnsafe in Georgia
Georgia is the state next to where I live. I like to visit the Georgia Aquarium and the High Museum in Atlanta. Sometimes I shop at the outlets in Commerce, Georgia. I don’t feel safe going to Georgia...
View ArticleGetting Political: 2014
Another election year has rolled around, and I’m getting a little political (I get more political in a presidential election year). The South Carolina Primary is tomorrow, June 10. This year we have...
View ArticleSouth Carolina’s Voter ID law
Before I discuss what I think of the law, let me tell you first what it is and what you need in order to vote in the November 4, 2014 election. South Carolina’s new Voter ID law went into effect …...
View ArticleThe President is still the President and the Senate is still the Senate
That despite the outrageous calls from all of the GOP presidential candidates at the debate last night, that any Obama appointee to the US Supreme Court to replace Justice Scalia be blocked, and the...
View ArticleThe Trump phenomenon
I don’t understand why nobody saw it coming. I know why I didn’t see it coming; I didn’t see it because I’m not plugged into the feelings that Trump supporters have. I started funding my IRA the year...
View ArticleWill Donald Trump release his tax returns when he becomes president?
I was looking at President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s federal income tax return from 1937 just now. It’s a quaint historical document. Roosevelt is the first president to my knowledge for which we have...
View ArticleAn open letter to Senator Graham
Dear Senator Graham: I, and I think many of my neighbors, are anxious these days in the wake of the recent election of Donald Trump. I am concerned that a Trump administration will not respect the...
View ArticleThe new president
I was in a board meeting of a non-profit organization at noon today while the 4-year ritual of the change of administrations in the United States took place. But even if I had the opportunity, I would...
View ArticleDo lots of undocumented aliens vote?
This article comes in the context of Donald Trump’s claims that 3-5 million illegal aliens voted in the 2016 general election and that is why he didn’t win the popular vote. Trump offered no evidence...
View ArticleDonald Trump is trying to rig the 2020 election.
This article comes out of a federal lawsuit about mail-in voting in Nevada. As I discuss the suit, feel free to follow along with the complaint.1 One has to read the complaint for a bit to get to the...
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