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The Vanishing Middle Class
The Waters Begin to Churn During my return to graduate school a few years ago, I had enrolled in a class on international political economy and a requirement, naturally, was to complete a paper. I...
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Does Economic Independence for the Individual Remain?
On a LinkedIn discussion, a commenter responded to a previous comment of mine with the assertion, “The American self-made man is a dream and a myth.” This is absolutely true, but top-down approaches to...
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The Quiet Constitutional Crisis Behind the 2nd Amendment
The following post discusses the original intent behind the Second Amendment. Readers should hold their assumptions, read carefully, and check their conclusion jumping until the end. Introduction The...
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Two Explosions – One Spawns a Sport, the Other Ignored
I hold no sympathy for the Boston Marathon bombers who killed three people and permanently disabled at least a dozen others, but the bombing’s aftermath became surreal. Far too many people, probably...
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Decoupling Background Checks from Gun Purchases
With the latest failed attempt at gun-control legislation, perhaps it is time for a Second Amendment advocate to weigh in with a potential solution that balances gun-owner privacy versus the need for...
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Minnesota Law Review: Corporatists on Supreme Court
A recent study, published in the Minnesota Law Review, has found the Roberts Court extremely friendly to corporations. The study is significant, as it includes members of the status quo, including a...
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More Spitting on Our Bill of Rights
An article in this morning’s New York Times reveals that federal law enforcement officials seized two months worth of phone records of 20 journalists and editors from the Associated Press. Sadly, the...
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Boston Marathon Bombing Turning Ripe… and Stinking
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, I was stunned by the extremely heavy-handed approach federal authorities took towards an already injured 19 year old, hunched over in the bottom of a...
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How D.C. Think Tanks Work
In case you’re wondering why public policy institutes based in Washington D.C. issue myopic reports on current issues… Source: gocomics.com via E.L. on Pinterest But shadowy funding pipelines, leading...
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A Soldier’s Last Words
If you have not read this, it is a must: “I Am Sorry That It Has Come to This”: A Soldier’s Last Words.
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Obama Administration’s Economic Inertia – It Was Inevitable
An early post from The Small “r” blog, dated December 5, 2008. Troublesome indeed is the prospect the Democratic Party may rally around Hillary Clinton in 2016… more of the same: With President-Elect...
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Seven Years and Still No Basis for Regrowth
From a December 10, 2008 post on the original, independent The Small “r” blog: During a mid-career pursuit of graduate school, I wrote a paper in 2004 investigating Japan’s seemingly endless and...
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Government Fleecing Shows Public Health System’s Failures
The latest round of fleecing-the-government has cropped up in the Medicare system. What a surprise. These newly minted millionaire doctors shows that the single-payer-system-is-Nirvana meme is nothing...
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US Interstate Highways Will Privatize; More Toll Booths Arriving
After reading Yves Smith’s post on naked capitalism last week regarding the privatization of U.S. infrastructure, and remembering a news item from the Washington Post (link at No. 1, below), I am...
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Best Argument for Mass Surveillance Evolving Into Police State
And I probably broke some law using “Press This”… http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/may-think-nothing-hide-still-breaking-laws-government-spying-discover-use.html
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