All Is Deemed Well As The Budget Process Unravels

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 19th at 10:08 AM  | 

I am going to make a grand pronouncement. Perhaps a grand pronouncement that will be filled with that which fertilizes the corn and attracts swarms of flies and dung beetles. But nevertheless, I believe our current dissolving budget process will argue strongly in favor of the proposition that all powerful and centralized governments devolve into dictatorships driven by aristocracies of pull. I make this grand | Read More »

An Environmental Magna Carta

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  February 4th at 10:42 AM  | 

The US Constitution guarantees a separation of powers, but cannot prevent the three distinct branches from jockeying to be top dog. We saw this writ large when President Barack Obama publically voiced his resentment towards how the US Supreme Court used its constitutional prerogative in the Citizens United Case. We see this conflict play out more subtly as the House of Representatives prepares a new | Read More »