Introductory Comment This post is based largely on A Thinking Person’s Candidate published by me in an earlier blog on 1/24/2016, seven years ago. The…
Presidential Candidates and Voters
Posted in Politicians, and Politics
Category: Politics
Labeling and Limiting Ourselves and Others
Posted in National Debt, Politics, Responsibility, and Uncategorized
David Brooks is spending a lot of time thinking lately and coming up with some good points such as in the attached column. We are…
Why So Quiet?
Posted in Politics
I see there are very few new posts on this blog since the November election of Donald Trump. And this in spite of the fact…
I didn’t vote for Donald Trump for POTUS (or for Hillary Clinton), but I understand exactly why so many did and why he won the…
I Could Have Been a Lobbyist
Posted in Government, and Politics
There is an interesting article in The State newspaper today about lobbying activity in and around the SC State House. I know the sizes of the…
At Least One Fatal Flaw (In the ACA)
Posted in Health Insurance, and Politics
The post below was originally published November 16, 2013. Given the number of insurance companies currently ceasing to participate in the ACA, it is interesting…
Republican Party, RIP
Posted in Government, and Politics
Since the founding of the nation, the fundamental political issue has always been size and influence of the Federal Government and the extent to which…
The Birth and Failure of “Obamacare”
Posted in Health Care, and Politics
The post below was written during the negotiations leading up to the March, 2010, passage of the Affordable Care Act. Passage of the proposed legislation,…
Abraham Lincoln, Gary Johnson, and Libertarianism
Posted in Civil War, Government, Libertarianism, and Politics
I’m thinking of the libertarian political philosophy in connection with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s failure to respond quickly and appropriately to a question about…