On Politics and the Fourth Estate: Toppling a Presidency, Pt. 3 (final)
On Politics and the Fourth Estate: Toppling a Presidency, Pt. 2
The Modern Myth of Media ObjectivityWere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. - Thomas Jefferson, 1787.For my part I entertain a...
On Politics and the Fourth Estate: Toppling a Presidency, Pt. 1
The Trump EffectWhile it's all the rage right now, particularly on either coast, I can't honestly say that I hate Donald Trump. That's way too strong a word. At best, I never particularly cared for him. It's a Boston-New York thing, in part. (You wouldn't get it...
Le roi est mort; vive le roi!
Trump, the NFL, and the American Tax Donkey
The Greatest Casualty in the recent "President Trump v. the NFL Kneelers" throwdown was, it turns out, the First Amendment. This era of News Media coverage of events will eventually be defined by the phrase, "Better to be First than Right!!" Never have so many people...
Term Limits III
Reduce the Market ItselfDonald Trump campaigned explicitly on term limits. His proposal was that Senators serve only two terms (for a total of 12 years) and that Congressmen and Congresswomen serve only 3 terms (a total of 6 years, for those of you who slept...
Term Limits II
How to Justify LegislationEvery problem, no matter how small or inconsequential, can never fail to be magnified, exaggerated, or - with a suitably agenda-driven Media - simply concocted out of whole cloth by partisan hacks and flacks, and then subsequently painted as...
The Most Important of Trump’s (forgotten) Campaign Promises – Term Limits I
Campaign Finance Reform - A PrimerAll attempts at Campaign Finance Reform in these United States have failed. ALL. Every single one of them.If that sounds like exaggeration, just consider that attempts to limit the influence of money on politics goes back to not long...