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Reform Emergency Response. I've been listening to people talk about reforming the police and they all have good ideas. Som...

Some key Definitions, Piracy First, piracy is a term for theft and the thieves who commit those thefts. It is also used in other contexts,...

In a paper published by Edward J. McCaffery titled "The Death of the Income Tax" he explains how the income tax became a wage tax ...

The founders put the second amendment into the constitution to protect the right of the country and the communities in our country to defen...

People in this country are really confused about how Government should function. Many think it should be run like a business. Indeed Governm...

Nativists Versus the Stateless Around the world nativism is raising it's ugly head again. Some People in nations all over the world ar...

Trump's Mob Watching this election made me pull out my copy of "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt. Here is w...

Federated principles are concerned with uniting people and getting them to work together in solidarity. Federal Government is general gove...

The thing you learn when working with bureaucratic organizations is that bureaucracies operate on inertia. Once something is set rolling it...

I believe that people have a 7th Amendment right to a jury trial in civil proceedings if they wish it and that the case for that is establi...

I've been reading the book "Washington's Circle" by David S., and Jeanne, Heidler. The very first chapter had some gems of...

Modern Pirates, Lobbyists and War-Mongers In my post "Did Cotton and other GOP politicians take money from Israel? [http://holtesthou...

Introduction Raymond Alcide Joseph (born August 31, 1931) is a Haitian diplomat, political activist and journalist. He was the Haitian am...

Ethiopia   This is a piece of a larger article I'm still working on. It turns out that Ethiopia has two communities that claim a tie...

Aristocracy, Trinity Church and Commoners The first thing I noticed was that successful pirates joined the gentry. Unsuccessful ones were h...

My Friend William Boyle shared on Facebook this comment and associated article on Ahad Ha'am (Hebrew: אחד העם‎, lit. one of the people, ...