Political Junkie

When it comes to eating meat, I love fat.  Eating the skin of the turkey is one of the parts of Thanksgiving that I look forward to the most every year.  I recognize that in order to preserve my long-term health, I can only consume fat in moderation. For this reason, I will probably rarely purchase meat at all when the time comes for me to live on my own. Regarding the government, I have the opposite philosophy.  If I had to compare the government to a piece of meat, I would want it 100 percent lean and 0 percent fat.  Unfortunately, that ratio does not even come close to accurately representing the ratio of essential to non-essential employees at the countless government agencies in Washington.  Right now, the United States of America has $23 trillion in debt.  The debt has done nothing but explode under administrations of both parties because neither party has the will to make difficult decisions, or as Hillary Clinton might say, “h...

National Public Radio recently ran a story about a man who did not get to see his dying wish, perhaps the most recent item added to his bucket list, fulfilled. The man would die without getting to see the Mueller report.   I have a political bucket list of my own and I have included some of the highlights below with a little explanation on the recent progress the nation has made in achieving each goal on my political bucket list. The Repeal of Roe v. Wade : I know that I share this in common with many other conservatives, who have this at the top of their political bucket lists.   Roe v. Wade has served as a black mark in American history and a symbol of the cultural revolution that began sweeping through the nation in the mid to late 1960s and had fully engulfed the country by the time the Supreme Court made this landmark decision to legalize abortion in 1973. Even Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the case, wanted to devote the rest of her life to undoing the law that be...

I had plenty of topics to write about this week.   For one thing, I could have written about that horrendous new abortion law in New York State and the desire of other states, such as New Mexico , Rhode Island , and Virginia to pass similar legislation.   I also could have written about the necessity for a brand new “Fire Pelosi” Bus Tour or the hysteria surrounding the potential that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will run for President as a “centrist independent.”   I still have time to write about all of those topics.   After the week that I have had, I felt compelled to write about something else. Two days after graduating from high school, I received a laptop computer as a gift.   My parents made the calculation that it would come in handy as they went off to college.   Their calculation proved correct.   Unfortunately, I did not get to spend that much time with my new computer right away; I had to head off to college orientation.   My fa...

Today marks the 231 st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.   In addition, today also marks my 23 rd birthday, making me roughly one-tenth as old as the Constitution.   When I first learned about Constitution Day, I mistakenly thought it September 16 th .   Perhaps that was because my birthday fell on a Saturday that year. 231 years later, the United States Constitution still serves as the founding document of the Republic, as opposed to France , which has repeatedly “ripped up” its Constitution.   The framers deliberately made the Constitution difficult to amend; any Constitutional amendment requires the support of two-thirds of the members of Congress and the support of three-fourths of the state.   Given the current makeup of the House and Senate, that means any Constitutional amendment would require the support of 67 Senators and 290 members of the House of Representatives.   America now has fifty states; meaning that the state legislat...

I’d like to start off by saying Happy Labor Day!   Labor Day, which first became a Federal holiday in 1894, signals the unofficial end of summer.   After Labor Day, most children will return to school if they have not already.   Most outdoor public pools in colder climates will shut down.   In addition to students and teachers, another group of Americans will return to work after an extended vacation.   Believe it or not, school children can sometimes behave more like adults than this group of Americans.   This particular group currently boasts a not-so-impressive 8 percent approval rating with the American public.   For those who have not figured it out yet, the group I am referring to is the United States Congress.         Congress has quite an extensive to-do list when it returns from the August recess.   The month will probably start with unity as both houses seek to pass a $7.9 billion emergency spending bill to ...