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They WANT to Go Back
As the election nears, a 78-year-old blowhard, con man, and convicted felon with declining cognitive ability, a man whose former cabinet members have…
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Lawrence Goldstone
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Voting in a Storm
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, in addition to dealing with massive devastation, state officials, especially in Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina…
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Lawrence Goldstone
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Defy the Founding Fathers—Vote!
With exactly four weeks until Election Day, to avoid discussions of voting, it might be necessary to tune into reruns of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer…
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What if...
As the presidential election looms terrifyingly near, Donald Trump, desperate to avoid both losing and home confinement, has become even more shrill…
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September 2024

Blundering Into Democracy: How We Got the Electoral College
During the Constitutional Convention, one of the most vexing challenges was to design an executive branch, something that did not exist under the…
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Lawrence Goldstone
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Standing Armies, Militias, and the Absolute Idiocy of Second Amendment Law
In her sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, Kamala Harris echoed Barack Obama in proclaiming, “I believe in the Second Amendment,” by which they both meant that…
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Lawrence Goldstone
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Gunfight at the Mar-a-Lago Corral
Ryan Wesley Routh, a man for whom the phrase “universal background checks” seems to have been invented, has joined the ranks of would-be political…
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Lawrence Goldstone
The Physics of Focus Groups
In quantum mechanics, theoretical physicists discovered that the results of many experiments at the sub-atomic level were not reliable because the mere…
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The Debate Goes to the Dogs
(Note: I wasn’t going to write about the debate, since everyone else was, but…who could resist?)
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America’s Constitution is Flawed and Outdated…But Don’t Try to Get a New One
As the presidential election nears, attention has once again focused not so much on the number of votes each candidate might receive, but rather on…
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Lawrence Goldstone
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Trump Fatigue…and Trump Fatigued
A recent Washington Post lead story featured the headline, “Trump Aims to Drag Down Harris as He Scrambles to Keep Up in Tight Race.” Underneath, it…
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August 2024

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…Republican Style
The Good:
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