Post Tagged with: "A Modest Proposal"

/ March 25, 2013 7:27 pm

Electoral Dysfunction

Electoral College reform has been debated since the institution’s inception, but there has always been little political will for change. The Democrats and Republicans appear to have held a tacit “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” agreement on the subject, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that the American electoral system is broken.

/ May 4, 2012 2:11 am

Modest Proposal: Misdiagnosis

The massive discrepancy between the debate over this bill and the facts of the American health care system is a testament to the sorry state of contemporary political discourse.

/ December 19, 2011 11:43 pm

Naval State of Mind

The recent failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (JSCDR) to reach an agreement on the reduction of the federal deficit may turn into a full-blown military budget crisis with enormous, unforeseen consequences for national security if the United States does not act soon.