Remember the STOCK Act? It was the law that passed last year that made it illegal for members of Congress to use inside information to trade in their own accounts.
That’s right, until last year a member of Congress, who knew what regulations were going to impact which industries and/or companies was allowed to trade on this information.
If you or I did what they did regularly we’d go to prison.
If one is going to grandstand and pontificate about the failures of the current minimum wage, and how $22/hour is the only fair rate of pay for unskilled workers, perhaps it would make sense to pay one’s interns such a wage. Or how about even a wage.
In 2010 I wrote about the Ron Paul Reformation.
Like Martin Luther (not MLK but the German priest of the Middle Ages) who held the sacred script of the Bible up to Church leadership and indicted Rome for running directly contrary to what Jesus and the Bible advocated, Ron Paul has done something similar with the US Constitution.
Why did the GOP do so badly in the most recent election? It has everything to do with fear. Fear of the Tea Party.
Say what you will about the Breitbart suite of online media. Are they over the top sometimes? Absolutely. But do they also do great reporting and interesting and valuable news? Without doubt. The attached article is an example of this.
In the wake of Romney’s defeat many Republicans are looking very closely at where the $400 million or so in donations went. Some do not like what they see.
We are neither right nor left, nor up or down, red, blue, or purple. But which way the GOP will turn is an interesting question which many people are asking right now, and one which is important for the country.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.
-Bob Dylan
It’s funny how good art not only holds up but also shifts in meaning as the years go by. The Times They are A-Changin’ is such a piece of art. This venerated song of my parents’ generation, for many an anthem of the left, is now 50 years old.
And it is and was an anthem for the left, to be sure. But times have indeed changed and the people who are now in the way are the same people who were pushing the old guard out of the hallways a half century ago.
The establishment is ossified and self-serving. Dylan’s song is a song of rebellion and optimism. It speaks of a new world that is nearly incomprehensible to the older generation. We have a very similar situation today.
Whereas the baby boomers had access to much more information than their parents, and much more technology than their parents. Such a difference was there that the term “generation gap” was coined to explain the differences between the generations. How much wider is the gap today?
