A Painless War: An attempt to limit public sacrifice!

After, reading the title of this piece, one might think that I am an anti-war activist – not true. However, I have noticed a very dangerous practice utilized during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. During World War II the public was engaged in the war effort with bond drives, rationing, and women replacing men in [...]

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Checks and Balances – do they still exist?

The Founding fathers of this longest running uninterrupted democratic republic in the world, The United States of America, understood that each of the three branches of our government left unchecked would try to be the sole driving force of this nation. Thus they gave us a system of checks and balances in our Constitution. [...]

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Borders & Entry

There is a movement in this country to open our borders to free migration into our country for anyone who wishes to enter. I wonder if these people keep their residence doors locked or if they encourage strangers to enter their homes and stay a while?
Back in the eighteenth century when our country was [...]

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The Current Illegal Immigration Population – what to do?

We are told that twelve to twenty million illegal immigrants are in this country today. Should we arrest, detain and deport these law breakers as a means of cleaning up this problem? Let’s be practical about this. Our country has no capability to locate and deport this many people without seriously diminishing normal [...]

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What Does America Need?

In economics books it is called Comparative Advantage. It is the underlying key to successful trade among nations. In non-economist terms, it is what can I offer that the other guy can’t that will give me an advantage in trading so I come out on top.
When the United States was very young, we [...]

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