Ideas and commentary with allegiance to neither the left nor the right, but only to this sweet land of liberty.

In all of the discussion about the failure of Congress to reach a deal to reduce our bloated deficit and the angry doctrinaire debate about fixing blame, we need to take into account that the nation now has two minority political parties.  Polls indicate that neither the Democrats nor the GOP has a favorability rating [...]

    For very good and valid reasons, Americans understand the extraordinary importance of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the right peacefully to assemble for redress of  grievances.That, of course, is the rationale for the Occupy Wall Street (“OWS”) movement by which thousands of protestors are encamping in various public places around the [...]

 As lawyers say, lets stipulate that the political system is broken. We have, in the past, railed against special tax incentives for business that are often outmoded, ill conceived, generally ineffective and which, more often than not, merely distort the marketplace at great expense to the taxpayer and, often, to the American consumer.   Elected officials [...]

President Obama and his re-election strategists seem like moths circling the glow and heat of a candle as they cozy up to the Occupy Wall Street crowd. This just might be a grassroots movement we can call our own, they must be thinking.  Bad idea. Occupy Wall Street was planned last summer in Vancouver Canada [...]