For months now the right wing of politics has thought that the Democrats were planning to replace Old Joe with someone else. Bait and Switch at the end. Amongst them there was a fringe theory that this debate was set[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2024
A good Presidential debate should show us the candidates so we know what we are voting for. This was a good debate. We got to see the two leading candidates for 90 minutes and we got to see how they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I knew they would put Old Joe and drugs, but I did not expect those drugs. Still, I tip my hat to the debate organizers. They asked questions, they allowed the candidates to speak without interruptions, and allowed us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Debate Day and what do we have to look forward to? We still don’t know whose crack it was they found in the White House, so who knows what the docs are pumping into Old Joe. And Big Don[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s debate week, and what do we have to look forward to? Two old guys with records arguing over which one has a worse record. One has a felon son, and the other IS a felon. One has to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another 1913 Amendment, the Seventeenth changed the election of State Senators from being performed by the State Legislatures to being selected by popular vote of the citizens of the State, like the House of Representatives. The original Constitution had granted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another half century went by before we passed the Sixteenth Amendment, which gave the Federal government the power to collect direct taxes on any income from the American people. The Federal government mainly received its income via tariffs and various[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another of the Post-Civil War amendments, the Fifteenth was focused entirely on voting. Just to make things clear to everybody, it says that right for citizens to vote shall not be denied based on race, color, or whether or not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fourteenth Amendment declared that anyone born in the United States or naturalized in it is a citizen of the United States, and that no State can take away their rights as a citizen without due process, nor deny them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It took us another six decades to get to the Thirteenth Amendment, and it was simple. No more slavery. And involuntary servitude can only happen if you are duly convicted of a crime. And just in case anybody thought they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…