“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”                           -Winston Churchill             I’m not about to dispute Churchill’s observation, but the truth is that America’s great experiment in republican democracy has reached a point of self-destruction.  It can’t be fixed.  It needs to be junked.             The country’s constitution drafters did a […]

            I have just about had my fill of lying politicians.              I wrote that sentence in the immediate aftermath of the Anthony Weiner press conference earlier this week, wherein he admitted he had lied repeatedly about the Twitter photo of his genitalia that he claimed he hadn’t but finally admitted he had sent to […]

            My wife and I just returned from a week’s vacation in Tahoe Vista, which is one of the many little towns that are spread across the northern side of Lake Tahoe, the large lake that divides parts of California and Nevada.  The lake, for those unfamiliar with this part of the world, is nestled […]

            Newt Gingrich’s serious run for the Republican presidential nomination may have been the shortest in U.S. history.              For those who blinked and missed the self-destruction of his campaign, Gingrich had just declared his candidacy two days earlier when he appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”  Asked his view of the Paul Ryan Medicare-reform […]