I remember the year 2000 like it was yesterday. We’d just had our last Party Like It’s 1999, and then we rolled into a Presidential Election year. Then we had the election. Then Florida was called before the polls closed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for November, 2018
Jim Hagedorn is another person you probably haven’t heard much about. He was born in a small town named Blue Earth in Southern Minnesota like his father before him. His father was a veteran of the Navy who owned a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Young Kim is one of the people you probably haven’t seen much of on the news. She was born in South Korea and her family immigrated to the American territories when she was a teenager. She went to college in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Election Day in America. Well…the polls are closed now, but we’re still counting the votes as we speak. And we probably will be counting the votes for another few weeks in some cases. Wisconsin Governor’s race, I’m looking at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Election Day in America. Yes, more people than ever before have gone the early or absentee voting route, but the majority of Americans will go into the polling station today and place their vote for the City, County, State,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine an America where the Federal government required that all election polls check a State-issued photo ID before allowing a citizen to vote. Assume a basic State-issued photo ID is free so we aren’t talking about a Poll Tax here.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine an America where all Federal representatives were term limited to six, eight, ten, or twelve years of Federal service. We already have term limits on the Presidency. Why not other positions in the Federal government? How would the Federal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine an America where State legislatures pick the State Senators that serve in the Federal Senate. That is the America that was for the first century and a half of her history. The idea was that Senators beholden to legislatures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine an America where citizens of a congressional district were the only people allowed to donate money to a Federal election campaign in that district. House District. State Senate seat. The Presidency. It is already illegal to accept funds from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine an America where only citizens of a congressional district could represent that congressional district. No carpet baggers allowed. House District. State Senate seat. The Presidency. Nobody could simply rent an apartment in a district a few weeks before an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…