On the Closing of Another Major Newspaper and on Journalism in General: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) These musings were triggered by the following article courtesy of Matt Drudge: Seattle paper says workers told jobs will end As someone who feels bad for those who fall on hard t...

Another Idea For Federal (or State) Legislative Reform: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) At sundry times and in divers manner your host has written on the issue of legislative reform in the context of major movements underlying the foundational presuppositions of this endeavour as o...

Rahm Emmanuel Has His Own Tax Problems I have already predicted that the Blagovich scandal is going to come back and bite Rahm Emmanuel in the butt but yet another issue that the msm if they had done even remedial journalistic investigation in the 2008 election on then-candidate Obama and his associ...

Between Unconstitutionality and Unworkability: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) [Prefatory Note: This text was largely drafted and refined between April 10, 2007 and December 30, 2007 with a few finishing bits (including a couple of footnotes and some minor tweaking) being done in t...

What's So Bad About Socialism Anyway? This bit from the article summarizes it quite well: If you believe in the freedom of the press, the right to belong to a political party of your choice, the due process of law, and/or private property, then Che Guevara was a monster, plain and simple. Readers ca...

Hollow victory: Republicans deliver slap in the face to Barack Obama (UK Telegraph) Unlike the Democrats who egregiously abused this option in the Senate during the tenure of President George W. Bush{1}, the Republicans in the Senate would be well within the right to use the filibuster for what it w...

I originally intended to post this in late 2007 but for a variety of reasons it was overlooked. As the subject matter (if not the article itself) is still apropo, I have decided to tend to the matter at this time so without further ado... Middle-Class Dream Eludes African American Families Many Blac...

Miscellaneous Threads Worth Noting: Two quick ones while we are in the mood... Illinois House Votes to Impeach Blagovich You read that right: In a dramatic display of anger and solidarity over a political scandal that has made Illinois a national laughingstock, lawmakers on Friday voted 114-1 to imp...

On the Palestinians and Israel: One nice thing about gmail is it has email and chat archives which (like the archives of this weblog) are very helpful in reminding your host of arguments made, positions taken, or predictions prognosticated upon in years past.{1} With the current response by Israel t...

"Rider Reform Revisited" Dept. I noted in the immediate aftermath of the election{1} that I was thinking of revisiting two initiative ideas I had gone over to varying degrees of depth over the years. However, I wanted to make sure I finished and published my musings on the election which were comple...