Well, I listened to Larry talking about how Obama failed to change anything. And I heard about Larry’s plan to change this: Citizen Funded Elections. It’s astounding how someone so smart can miss the mark by so much. The problem is not that special interests are buying congressmen. The problem is [...]

As mentioned in my previous post, most businessmen will do anything they can to preserve their position.  This extends to people in all realms.  Whether manufacturers, farmers, financiers, academics or politicians, those who wish to preserve their power will promote as many measures as necessary to do so.  In the case of those in the [...]

One of my reasons for reading Tony Abbott’s recent book, “Battlelines”, was to remind myself why I am not a conservative. The more serious reason was to find our how a politician who proudly wears the conservative label would attempt to justify proposing an amendment to the Australian constitution that would remove current restrictions on [...]