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Is our growing government reflecting our collective values

The question being asked is whether or not The Government Is Too Big. In the constitutional provision of "Promoting The General Welfare", would an 'Office Of Astronomy' be valuable?  The size of our government today is a product of the increased size of our collective knowledge in the various studies we have today, from medicine, to the understanding of the behavior of the multiplicity of creatures that inhabit the Earth and so many other "Scientific" scholastic Disciplines', the question becomes whether any of these is of value and given that they are, a reduction in any of their sizes becomes a question of their internal efficiencies and nothing more. What will determine how we answer that question as individuals will be based on two very different ways we see the world today. Our bifurcated view can be better understood in the most important difference that we have; the contentions that might arise out of our religious views and our determination of ...

Donald Trump and The Republican Party's Dream of Stupid Perfected

The Republican Party has finally achieved its dream of a candidate with just the right amount of stupid! For those of us old enough to remember, the party once 'pressed upon us the importance of  " Character "; their understanding of moral fidelity toward family and friends but they themselves then fell, like fiery meteor's, one after another; candidates who cheated on their tiny wives or filched gullible business partners as much as their political opponents ever did! So Donald Trump, their new voice is Just The Right Amount Of Stupid, but that doesn't mean he's not smart in his own ways. If asked the proper way to spell the word ' Tomato ', for instance, he'd just reward that journalist with a " Fake News ' badge and condemn the periodical that hired such a pretender,  because their true objective, finally, is to achieve a perfectly non-responsive government for their real constituency; the undeniable power of money which is what got...

How do we prosecute Donald Trump

How we prosecute Donald Trump is a matter of understanding the differences in the way we see good and evil today. The first consideration is something that few people know about but throws light on that difference. It's a principle in law called: "Ipso facto " i. e; " After The Fact ". It would seem absurd today for anyone to think that allowing the marriage of a 14-year-old girl would be acceptable, yet Donald Trump and I know that 75 years ago in the southern states, it was actually legal. A famous rock musician named Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin-   legally! So what's the point? When you call Donald Trump a pedophile , your discounting his experience in that and applying your present day thinking or even new legal strictures on something from the past. That would violate the Ipso-Facto principle of the law which is unconstitutional, and yes- it is in The Constitution .  Another charge Donald Trump has faced has to do with his business...

Patriot Act Treason

The question of the 14th. Amendments' requisite oath to: "... Protect and Defend The Constitution of The United States" is, as you say, "Legally Binding", but the object of any law is, logically, its intended effect.         With that in mind, I would pose the following:        Is it reasonable to expect every government office-holder to become an expert in Constitutional Jurisprudence, lest he inadvertently "Act" to the detriment of 'The Constitution' and possibly to his own foolhardy vilification, and is that specifically 'The Defect' the provision sought to correct, or is it rather the work of those members who would stifle, or refuse participation to certain new members coming from the newly reconstituted "South"?      In any case, is the 14th. Amendment the best mechanism to address this or other threats to our nation today? I fear instead, a wholesale breakdown in the polity, where ...