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...

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...

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...

RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts Just a taste before we comment... Republican Party officials say they will try next month to pass a resolution accusing President Bush and congressional Republican leaders of embracing "socialism," underscoring deep dissension within the party at the end of Mr. Bush's ...

On How To Approach the Presidential Election Results of 2008 and Analyzing the Political Trends for 2008 and Beyond: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) As we announced in a previous posting, certain exceptions notwithstanding and at our discretion{1}, this is the only posting we inten...