The Essence of a Meritocracy It’s about our children … your kids, Marty. Something’s got to be done about them (paying respects to Back to the Future, Part II). Meritocracy has defined America’s success. It’s been the cornerstone of the American Dream. In order...
The Canary in the Gold Mine It wasn’t until 1913 that miners were first urged to bring caged canaries down into coal mines. They became the early 20th Century’s biological early warning system for detecting the presence of carbon monoxide, a deadly killer of coal...
What is a Conservative? And what is a Liberal? Labeling oneself a Conservative in 2019 is not the same as actually being a Conservative, certainly not in a 1980’s philosophical sense, a period which many remember recognize as the golden age of flourishing American Conservatism....
The Offensive Against America’s Champions Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google/Alphabet are America’s capitalist champions most notorious monopolies. They should be broken into their component parts just like the Justice Department did with AT&T in 1984. That dismemberment gave America eight telecommunications companies that could...
Constitutionally Speaking Since the Great Depression, and with few exceptions, American Presidents, legislators and judges have been scrupulous in upholding their artful interpretations of the Constitution. They have put aside partisanship when the American system was threatened, as it was, for example, during the Vietnam...
What If? What might a seminal Constitutional Crisis look like? We’re talking hypothetically, of course. It might start something like this: The House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Financial Services subpoena the President’s, his family’s...
