"Overlapping laws and regulations hurt America. Simplification and reconciliation should be a bipartisan objective." – The Lonely Realist A distinctive feature of democratic government is that rules and regulations are relatively easy to add … and virtually impossible to adjust revise improve dilute, yet alone eliminate. ...
“Human beings who can predict tomorrow’s stock market action quickly become wealthy. They are considered geniuses. If they could accurately predict the weather one week out, they’d be considered clairvoyant. Unfortunately, no person can consistently forecast the stock market even only one day out, or...
TLR considered alternate titles for today’s commentary and stuck with “Fractured America” because it conveys the shocking reality that American society is coming has come apart. It has not simply bifurcated separated into a few dissimilar schools of thought. It has come unglued, sundered, splintering...
“Faking it 'til you make it” is a Silicon Valley maxim. Unfortunately, “faking it” at times means committing fraud, though determining what is "fraud" is complicated ...
TLR continues to ponder the question of what makes democracy so attractive and so enduring … and, more recently, so unstable (having discussed “The Widening Partisan Divide” here, America’s “Degenerative Democracy” here, and “America’s Broken Constitution” here). What is the secret ingredient that has made...