Uncle Sam Is the Real Santa Claus to the Well Connected
As the nation ends the gift-giving season, Congress, in its $1.4 trillion 2020 fiscal year appropriation gave billions to distilleries, race-horses, Nascar owners, short-line railroad,...
Opinion: Media Personalities Are Lobbyists and Should Register
It is generally believed that media organizations are exempt from the reporting requirements of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (“LDA”) since their purpose is...
Big Government: What To Do With Lifetime Unelected Bureaucrats?
A USA Today headline read “Many Federal Employees More Likely to Die Than Be Fired.” It reported that federal employees were fired at the rate of...
How They Do It In California: A Fight For National Leadership
California’s November 15, 2019 lawsuit against EPA over its legal authority to impose higher automobile fuel efficiency standards than the rest of the nation is...
2020: A Libertarian President? Voters Want a Third Party
Citizens instinctively mistrust the government. Citizens believe the government is failing them. The public is ready for a major third-party. The real question is whether the...
Commission on Presidential Debates: Insights Into a Rigged System
Does an October 11, 2019 press release from the Commission on Presidential Debates (“CPD”) announcing its 2020 debate schedule, and a recent court opinion, provide...
Jungle Primaries Will Break the Two Major Parties’ Control
This is the last of five articles discussing options for breaking the monopoly control of our government by the two major political parties. This article...
Can Antitrust Laws Open the U.S. Political System to Competition?
This series of articles explores options to break the monopoly control of our government by the two major political parties. The first article describes the...
Denial of Ballot Access: In Search of Meaningful Remedies to the Deprivation of Constitutional Rights
Part I of this series describes the two major political parties as possessing monopoly control of our government. Part II discusses the tactics used by...
The Republican and Democratic Suppression of Third Parties and Ideas
Part I of this series sets out the fact that independent and third-party candidates only hold 0.0003246% of all elected offices. The two major parties,...