Charting the Politics of Coronavirus Clusters
First, we need to graph the Corona Virus Worldwide, without China, then narrow it down to individual states.
That way you can see things the big numbers don't tell you.
First, we get rid of the...
The Deep State, Where a Different Type of Natural Laws Apply
If you want a sense of "deep state history", read the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in all six volumes, written by Edward Gibbon in the 1780s. I have the one-volume...
Oligarchs, Toward a Working Definition Inside the Deep State
Steve Bannon recently referred to Michael Bloomberg as an "oligarch", which I believe is a fair extension of the term, since it has been used selectively in the media to a more narrow club membership, as if Russian...
The Federal District of Detroitia
(Columbia is a feminine form of "Columbus", FYI)
I'll try to be brief and avoid the snark, but this is an idea whose time has come and could be a winning plank in the Republican campaign...
Cut Bureaucracy Down to Size Now
(Originally published in 2013,, as "Sequestration Pain Management" at the beginning of Obama's second term, this is repeated with no changes.)
Since LBJ’s Great Society we have spent $15 TRILLION dollars on the war on poverty....
“Heaven for Climate, Hell for Society”, Hal Holbrook
You'd have to watch a lot of Hal Holbrook's presentations to find the one quoted in the title. But I heard off an old LP from 40 years ago, and he was comparing the differences between the North and the South at the time...