Posts Tagged ‘California’
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Disturbing Story
Posted on January 23, 2018
I found the story disturbing. No, I am not talking about the Russia collusion story. Or the government shutdown. Or the “Memo”. I am talking about that family in California,...
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Donald Trump and a Conversation on Immigration
Posted on July 9, 2015
Donald Trump has gotten a lot of political mileage by bashing Mexican immigrants, calling the lot of them rapists. His comments have sparked a backlash against his business interests. The...
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Expanding the Size of the Senate?
Posted on July 23, 2014
There’s nothing sacred about having 100 Senators and 435 Members of the House of Representatives. It was 103 years ago, in August of 1911, when Congress passed the Apportionment Act,...
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It Started With Cortes
Posted on June 10, 2014
In a strange way, you can blame Hernan Cortes and his merry band of Conquistadors for the border crisis that has hit our southern border recently. El Salvador, Honduras and...
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The Limits of Direct Democracy
Posted on November 1, 2011
It was the Athenians who are credited with inventing democracy, a noble experiment that frequently lurched towards despotism. At its height, Athenian democracy had about 30,000 participants in a nation-state...
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