Federalization for the Future
Since "state's rights" are so clearly a harmful anachronism, used regularly for two centuries to justify "local yokel" laws furthering racism, bigotry, larceny, and evasion of environmental, financial,...
View ArticleCool Greebly Mars Rock!
Look at this rock on the left in these Curiosity pics... how did it get so greebly?? Is it a partly-dissolved chunk of limestone? Calcified Martian squid fossils from 100 million years ago? A frozen...
View ArticleEarly Endowment: Front-end Funding for Young Citizens
Funding of the socialized citizen-welfare component of our hybrid American system is overwhelmingly focused on late-life entitlements--Social Security, Medicare, tax benefits for retirement accounts,...
View ArticleHow to Overturn Citizens United
Citizens United established that corporations, as legal persons, are entitled to free speech, including spending unlimited amounts of money in political "speech".Under Constitutional law, CU asserts,...
View ArticleAfter Newtown: Nobody Needs a 10-Kid Clip
We need to outlaw high-capacity ammunition clips across the board. High-capacity meaning, "any ammunition carrier holding more than one round". Nobody needs that kind of firepower unless they're in...
View ArticleAfter Newtown: Presidential Action - Assault Weapon Control is a NATIONAL...
Directly responding to Newtown, the President should issue a Homeland Security Presidential Directive (see Wikipedia) banning the sale, carry, or use of assault weapons - ALL assault weapons,...
View ArticleNational Security Threat Priority List - Emergency Executive Action Required
National security threats to the United States in decreasing order of priority:1. Imminent strategic nuclear attack on US homeland2. Terrorists attacking US classrooms to massacre children 3....
View ArticleThe Twilight of the Republicans
In November, Republicans were humiliated at the polls, despite circumstances and funding that should have favored them.That signals a historic transition. It clearly shows a changing nation--a smarter...
View ArticleYou F**ng Humans
It's impossible to describe the nausea that civilized Galactic godminds have for primitive individualized cultures like yours. Your pathological egotism and small-mindedness have as it were, a stink...
View ArticleEnd-State of Free-Market Capitalism is Indistinguishable from Communism
As we've seen over and over again, when consumer products become commoditized, their retail prices eventually converge on the cost of production, and competition forces that cost lower and lower, until...
View ArticleInfrastructure Projects are Hard Assets - Increase Money Supply to Fund Them
Because Federal infrastructure projects create new National assets, they increase the net worth of the nation. When the net worth of any sovereign nation increases, it is possible for it to increase...
View ArticleSend Killers to Scream-Hell: Put Real Justice in the Constitution
Just as the Second Amendment stands in the way of effective gun control and licensing, the Eighth Amendment stands in the way of true justice for murderers and molesters. The one should be outright...
View ArticleBuild and Operate Hell as Part of the Justice System
Rather than attempting to deter people from evil via religious traditions of Hell in the hereafter, we should instead use public funds to construct and operate Hell here on Earth.Presuming a...
View ArticleWe Wouldn't Find a Trace...
... if there had been a high-tech civilization on this planet, or on Mars, 200 million years ago.Using a conservative erosion rate of 5 millimeters per millenium (in the ballpark for rock surfaces...
View ArticleFusion Microchips - Power for the Future?
For fifty years the smartest people and the biggest power brokers in the world have designed and funded and constructed huge, expensive tokamaks, laser arrays, and other awe-inspiring mega-technology,...
View ArticleDrone Proxy Groundbots for the Future
What we badly need in the military department is to field large forces of remote-controlled, "dumb" disposable ground battle drones ("groundbots")--smallish plastic and metal robots run from far away...
View ArticleRebranding Al-Quaida
In May 2011, as all the world knows, the SEALs cut Al Quaida's balls off. But there still remain more levels of pointed humiliation and defeat that need to be inserted deep into the residue of cowards...
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