On Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada, my wife and I stood in line for several hours at the Treasure Island Casino. It was o.k. to wait, my wife likes to play slots, and I played a few hands of Black Jack. It was disappointing to find out […]
US Politics
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Millions of Americans, including thousands of Oklahomans, still have significant questions about the November 3 election process. We have reports of problems with voting machines, people voting twice, non-residents voting in a state, or people mysteriously voting after their death months or years before. In some states, there were problems […]
I have been reading John F. Kennedy’s “Profiles in Courage” slowly, reading some passages over the course of several months, then munching a chapter in a day. It reminds me of college, when getting approval for a thesis topic was an all consuming preoccupation. I write about this in a […]
From: “Senator Josh Hawley” <no_reply@senator.senate.gov> Sent: 12/31/2020 9:44:11 PM Subject: 2020 Presidential Election — Article 2 — US Constitution On January Sixth, 2021, I have heard that you intend to object to the counting of the certified results of the US Electoral College. As a voting citizen in your state, […]
from Facebook posting December 30, 2020 at 8:56 PM WHAT HAPPENS ON JANUARY 6th In November, 160 million Americans voted. On December 14, members of the Electoral College – spread across all 50 states and the District of Columbia – assembled to cast their votes to confirm the winning candidate. […]
I heard a TV lawyer justifying Trump’s boundless litigation in his quest for Presidential re-election as good for our Democracy, for our system, and good for our country. His reasoning was that such litigation would help resolve and uncover long-standing inconsistencies and help clarifying legal principles that were imprecise and […]
When I was a little kid growing up in Providence RI, I would walk about seven blocks to the grocery store where I would buy bubble gum. It’s hard to remember but I think each piece of bubble gum was about a penny. The gum came in little pink rectangles […]
Article II of the U.S. Constitution reads in part, “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors…” So-called experts have twisted these words to mean that each State’s Legislature picks the electoral college, not the State’s Governor, nor the State’s Supreme […]
When I was a kid in the sixties, people used to buy crazy bumper stickers, and put up crazy posters on the wall. One which I remember ran something like this, In the event of a nuclear war, all rules against praying in this school are suspended indefinitely. It was […]
When I took History 35 in high school, we basically learned a chronology of US History. This has been quite useful, but it was only later when I took Political Science at MIT, that I started to learn a bit of the theory. I am a doctorate in Mathematics and […]