This month’s top ten discussion topics

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American National Debt

American National Debt

The biggest victims of the current American government’s inability to compromise across the aisle is the American people because the country is drowning in debt. Talk about living beyond your means!  Since 1960, Congress has raised the debt ceiling 78 times — 49 times...

Guns and Gun Violence

Guns and Gun Violence

Many of the facts in this essay are taken from a researcher and writer named Colin Woodard who has written about cultural divisions within the United States and more recently in Politico about how these cultural differences affect gun violence in culturally distinct...

The Living Constitution

The Living Constitution

Not long after the Framers of the American Constitution created it the debate about how to change it began. The so-called Originalists argue that it is a sacred document and therefore not subject to any need for revision. Others believe instead that the Constitution...

Fox News and the Ray Epps Lie

Fox News and the Ray Epps Lie

Pictured are Marine veteran Ray Epps and his wife. Also pictured is their motor home. They were forced to sell their non-mobile home and hit the road because of death threats they received after Fox News and Tucker Carlson lied about Ray on National Television. CBS...

Fox versus Dominion Voting

Fox versus Dominion Voting

Call me a boy scout; but if you can’t win fair and square, you don’t deserve to win. Dominion Voting machines has filed a defamation lawsuit for 1.6 billion dollars against Fox News and its parent company. Fox, as most of us know, undermined the belief in fair and...

Chat Bots on the Move

Chat Bots on the Move

Google’s Bard is a generative and conversational AI chatbot, similar to ChatGPT and Bing Chat. One of these three or something very much like all three that we don’t know about yet will be a much more prominent feature in our upcoming lives and the lives of our...

Gun Debate

Gun Debate

Leading up to the next presidential election America will have a renewed and vigorous debate about guns. This debate will not be easy and probably will not go well, because We Americans are not good at compromise, and gun control is certainly among the most...

Election 2024 Part Two

Election 2024 Part Two

Pictured are some past candidates for the presidency. No one can accurately predict who the most viable candidates will be in 2024. Unfortunately, we can predict a partisan slug fest overflowing with negative campaign ads. Three weeks ago, I wrote part one of this...

Resurrecting McCain-Feingold

Resurrecting McCain-Feingold

The last meaningful bipartisan legislation, McCain-Feingold, was passed in 2002 and it has been eviscerated, legislated against, and ignored ever since. Big Money’s undue influence on American economic spending and economic policy has been the result. The bailout of...