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...

Life Lessons Learned the Hard Way: # 1

Learn (ideally, master) a completely impractical, useless skill. The more nonsensical and less practical it is or could possibly ever be, the better. Do it because you’ve always wanted to but thought it was silly. And get good at it. Get good enough that when...

On What It Means to Be a Marine on our 241st Birthday

The truth is I actually wanted to be a Navy fighter pilot.Like many young men of my era, I saw “Top Gun” in the late ’80s just as I was about to apply for college. I fell for it – Hook. Line. Sinker. (Cue “Danger Zone” bass drop...