When two parties run on a single issue in the general election and one party wins the most votes in the presidential, senate, and house elections...you know the people have spoken on the issue. It was true in 2004 about the Iraq War, it was true in 2012 for universal health care (disclaimer: Democrats won…
Make voting easier
A 102 year old lady should not wait in line for 6 hours to caste her vote. Make voting easier. It is the first and foremost right of a democracy. The party that sat in silence at voting reform proposal, this is the reason why you are becoming a regional minority party.
Military Spending
we spend 63% of our federal individual income tax on the department of defense (29% of the entire federal revenue). that $716 billion represents 42% of the world's military spending. i think it is immoral for an advanced society, deeply in debt, to spend that much on the military (a 133% increase in the last…
Urban folks vs rural folks
New York metropolitan population - 19 million. In big cities like this, you cannot survive without government. It is needed everywhere - from security to sanitation to public transportation to education...you name it. Try libertarian-ism in these cities and you will have anarchy. On the flip side, take the case of Wyoming - population half…
Guns, Germs and Steel
After reading Guns, Germs and Steel...I am ambivalent about the book. It does make some good points about geography and natural resources. But it felt too politically correct and misses one very important point - the choices that people make. Geography and resources are important for the start of civilization. But how can one explain…
Guns, Moral Theology, and Biology
everyone has an opinion on how to stop, or if we can stop, these mass-murders. some say gun control and some say guns don't kill, people kill (I have heard it for years but my brain has yet to understand the logic in it). some point to Good and Evil and how we cannot stop…
The 47%
shouldn't the bigger story be the 30% of the households in this country who do not earn enough money (or do not earn enough to support two children) to pay federal income taxes, and how can we fix that? or the fact that the bottom 40% of the population owns only 0.2% of the total…
Lying Leaders
Politicians and rulers lie because it works. Because people are born believers. People are suckers for simple, easy to understand answers for complicated problems. Seeing the world in black-and-white makes life easier by giving us only two choices, when reality is nothing but 50 shades of grey. It is true that first impressions are usually…
Stephen Colbert on voting
"If you don't choose your leaders, they will be chosen for you." - Stephen Colbert out-of-character before the taping of the Colbert Report. Democracy cannot be hijacked by Citizens' United, Koch brothers, or the unions if the electorate does its civic duties, is knowledgeable about issues, studies the contrasting policy proposals, and votes accordingly. Please…
The Philosopher-Scientist 