Year: 2017

It seems over the past 8 years of Barack Obama’s presidency that we have become more divided as a country then in any time I can ever remember in my life. Suddenly the human rights and societal accomplishments achieved under the American “Social Contract” were marginalized in the name of reopening wounds that our “Great […]

Newly published data from the U.S. Treasury shows that the federal government has amassed $84.3 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded Social Security and Medicare obligations. This amounts to $670,000 for every household in the U.S., a fiscal burden that equals 93% of the nation’s private wealth, including the combined value of every American’s assets […]

One of the unique things about western society, western democracies, and our own representative republic, is the peaceful transition of power.   Many nations have never known such a thing, as power is simple bequeathed from one family member to another, as in Syria or North Korea. It may also be obtained by coup, military […]