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Madison defined Tyranny as: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a fe...

This week the Supreme Court ratified Florida's poll tax on former felons, completely ignoring both the spirit and letter of the 24th Ame...

In an article titled: Post-Roger Stone: Ten ideas for repairing Trump’s justice system By Jennifer Rubin, She writes: “President Trump gra...

Nancy Pelosi was asked about President Trump's plan to commute Roger Stone's sentance and replied that she is looking into legislati...

In our country some judicial powers are distributed. The executive has the power to bring charges and try cases in a court. Courts are saddl...

Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench In a research article published by Reuters: (https://www.reuters.co...

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

I agree entirely with the following: "The senseless murder of George Floyd and other people of color, is a shame and an injustice. The ...

In 1932, thousands of WW1 vets camped with their families in Washington DC, petitioning the Federal Government to payout bonuses...

There are real parallels between the Evangelicals depicted in the Handmaids tale, Trumpism and the Taliban.  Both the evangelica...

Been meditating on treason a lot.  The reason is historical example. Was reading about the English Civil War & then was watching the Tv ...

Governor Cuomo is calling for the reorganizing of our disjointed and dysfunctional health service into a National Health System. This would...

Judging Elections Elections are, in essence, a judicial process where common citizens acting as voters, judge the fitness of candidates and...

It is easy to get confused about the founders. They worked together to create the constitution, but North and South never really understood ...

Today is the last day of the year (I wrote this at the end of 2018). I started to watch "Atlas Shrugged" on a lark.  Folks often m...

Impeachment Process is Oversight Process I started this Post around June. I was listening to Representative Jerry Nadler , who heads the Ju...

Without Scrutiny Any System Fails The Athenians were driven to put the vetting job into jury functions or ruling councils by experiences w...

Klepto Policies George Lakoff recommended using the word Privateering to describe klepto political policies like privatization. That term ...

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 ...

Trump practices these methods of the "Big Lie" Trump's Five Principles of Autocratization Further he also practices the 5...