This month’s top ten discussion topics
The Top Ten change on the first of every month!
Cultural Autonomy
Cultural Autonomy Currently the National Government is way out of touch with regular human beings; and no matter which party is in power, the train seems to be trying to jump the tracks. Many Americans long want to return to simpler times when the decisions that...
The Road through the Middle
The Road through the Middle Three roads diverged in a red, white, and blue wood, And sorry that Macro-physics allows me to choose just one, Long I stood First looking as far as I could down the Road to the Left. I discerned a Toll Booth And beyond many...
Drain the Swamp
The Essential Draining of the Swamp Let’s Drain the Swamp! “In the early days of our Republic, our nation’s capital was an actual swamp.” Former Senator Jim Demint in his foreword to Drain the Swamp by Ken Buck, a Congressman representing Colorado. The phrase...
Eight Party America
The Eight Party System...
The Two-Party System
The two-Party system The Yorkipoo versus the Taco Terrier Parties Let’s compare our current two-party political realm to the world of dog breeding. Dog breeds have always been mixed with varying degrees of success or failure. It is thought that inter-breeding can...
Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court
Hobby Lobby and Corporate Personhood What the Supreme Court got right and what it got wrong What the Supreme Court got right: We have the Right to Religious Freedom, and Religious Belief. We have the Right to promote our Values when they do no harm to others. If you...
Fake News
Fake News “Fake news” is not news, and “alternate facts” are not facts. Those are personal biases expressed with a modicum of believability and truthiness. It doesn’t take much truthiness, because both sides of the political spectrum are determined to hear only what...
Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick Colin Kaepernick says he wants to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Here's what he did right and what he did wrong. It is his right and even his duty to protest injustice as he sees it; but when he disrespects the National Anthem, he misses the...
Left versus Right
Left versus Right “You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom...
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
On Liberty John Stuart Mill The Department of Motor Vehicles in each state publish a handbook or manual that contains the rules of the road. The “rules of the road” for Democracy in America were written by a British citizen, John Stuart Mill. On Liberty has been...