Too many people parrot the phrase “my first amendment rights” as if the First Amendment to our Constitution gave us some rights. Maybe it is just being semantically picky to insist that the First Amendment gives us nothing. We naturally have the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights. By being born a human being […]
Humans Naturally Detest Murder All humans recoil in disgust when a fellow human is murdered. We pass laws to punish perpetrators and enact measures to discourage murder. In the United States, firearms are overwhelmingly the weapon of choice for both murder and self-defense. Does this mean we should pass laws to outlaw guns as a […]
Article 6 of the Constitution The oath of office for United States Senators is required by Article 6 of the Constitution. It’s text is as follows: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true […]
California Cases Reveal the Dangers and Successes of Direct Democracy at the State Level A major flaw of direct democracy is a tendency of the majority to abuse the rights of the minority. Such abuse is mitigated on the national level by the restraints in the Constitution that established our federal republic. The Electoral College […]
Trump is a Different Man for Different Times I arrived in sunny Southern California in 1963 eager continue my studies in physics after suffering two years of university in the frigid climes of upstate New York. I cannot tell you who was governor of New York during that time except to say that Nelson Rockefeller […]
