Summary: Our government’s debt grows, imperiling not just its solvency but our very self-confidence in ourselves, and in our political regime. Can we reform before the end? Read this essay to learn the answer. And rejoice! . Read and learn from the money paragraph of “Why Democracies Fail”, often attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee, …
Summary: Next steps in the legal battle to preserve the most basic of Constitutional rights, stopping the government from executing citizens as it pleases. Without even the pretense of warrants or trials. A follow-up to Another step towards fascism: “Silencing the Lawyers” and Code red! The Constitution is burning. Every day the Constitution dies a little more. Slowly. That’s …
Much of the discussion on the FM website concerns how to reform America, putting ourselves back on track — not just for survival, but also prosperity. The fiercest debate concerns the most important step. The first step. This post gives what is the definitive answer. Contents Recognition that we have a problem is the first step Recognition that we …
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Summary: This is part 2 in a series looking at the Iraq War. Advice from past to the present. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — Advice from Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith in a letter to President Kennedy, dated 2 March 1962, printed in Galbraith’s Ambassador’s …
