Effective Government

Camila and I are walking down the avenue, with around us a fish-school rainbow of college students. Their noise goes up to the sky, after school starts, in a good natured sort of clamor, everyone wanting to be heard.  Read More »

It appears that Germany got into a little bit of economic trouble this past week.  Read More »

I am enormously proud of my family's political heritage. It is not one of holding office, or working in a government beaurocracy, or even being highly involved in a campaign. No, instead the political tradition of my parents is one of a political community: a circle of friendship and activism.  Read More »

“It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.  Read More »

Everyone has something that really, really grinds at their nerves, gets their "goat", yanks their chain, etc. For me, that's corrupt politicians who make it hard for the citizens to have any faith at all in the Federal government. In my U.S. History AP class, just this morning, a classmate and I got into a heated discussion about the power the federal government ought to have.  Read More »

Apparently constituents in Michigan will vote on Proposal 1 this November 4th to decide whether they want to join a dozen other US states in enacting medical marijuana laws. (Update: recent polling in Michigan found 66 percent support the marijuana proposal, 25 against and 9 percent not sure).  Read More »

The stock market has never really peaked my interest, and then one day I decided to study it. I have been watching the stocks like a hawk for nearly 6 months or more. Monday stocks were bad besides gold and a few other exceptions. Dow dropped 504 points, but I figured it was just one of those days.  Read More »

Once, in high school, while discussing the constitution, a teacher told the class that in school, we did not have all the rights that are granted to us in the constitution. For example, the school had the right to search our lockers without reason, and without our permission, and it was not illegal search and seizure. While this may sound crazy, that made perfect sense to me.  Read More »