With interest in the recent election, my attentions were elsewhere other than the Supreme Court and the cases before it. To recap November to this point, the Court has heard oral argument in eight cases- 4 involving criminal matters and four involving civil matters. In the criminal matters, they must determine whether if a lawyer fails to advise a client about the deportation implications of | Read More »
Two things strike this writer regarding criticisms and proposals for reform. The first is that a disproportionate amount of the blame for the gridlock in Washington is laid at the feet of the Republican Party. The second is that many view this gridlock as something new in Congress. And while they decry the influx of money as being the main cause of GOP gains in | Read More »
In the previous entry, I noted that the main motivation behind proposals to either reform or eliminate the Electoral College, especially the most recent proposals, is predicated by the Liberal/Democratic assertion that George Bush stole the Presidency in 2000. Yet for all the disdain for the Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore, there is another recent Supreme Court decision that really, really just makes your | Read More »
Perhaps one of the absolute worst proposals to come out of this talk of reform is to get rid of the electoral college and decide the President based on the popular vote. These are the same people who also whine about the two party system and the restrictions placed on third party ballot access. So, let’s assume we get rid of the electoral college and | Read More »
Most nominees for political office are chosen through the primary election system. Many have noted that this system tends to select the more “extreme” candidate for either party at the expense of the more moderate candidate since it is the hard-core Republican or hard-core Democrat who tends to show up for these primary elections. However, that assertion tends to miss the point and assumes that | Read More »
The Constitution requires that every ten years, the country must conduct a census of its population. In the most recent census, several of my more conservative friends believed this to be some liberal conspiracy of varying sorts and asserted their intention not to return their census form. Of course, they do so at their own political peril. The purpose is to first determine the number | Read More »
The answer to this question may surprise many. A 1792 law required that the electors chosen meet on the first Wednesday in December to decide the winner of the presidency. Elections themselves had to be held within 34 days of that Wednesday, although the actual day of the vote was left to the individual states. Being an agrarian society, voters had to travel to the | Read More »
The best way to increase voter participation is to insure the integrity of the voting process. This is a concept that people on both the Left and the Right should agree upon. But, that is not the case and nowhere is liberal hypocrisy, internal inconsistency in their arguments, and just plain hubris more on display by the Left. It is true that cases of voter | Read More »
I am computer illiterate, especially when it comes to Apple products. Thinking it was something intrinsic to their weird mindset, I nevertheless have the same problem on other computers. Specifically, when I sign onto RedState, I have no problem writing entries or viewing comments. But, I will be damned if I can make comments on any articles. For one fleeting day there, at the bottom | Read More »
One rather consistent mantra of the GOP has been a call for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. It would seem rather sad that such a measure would even be proposed, but such is the state of a Congress and a President who cannot seem to do what every family does. In effect, such a proposal, proponents argue, would force fiscal discipline upon the | Read More »
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