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. […]
US Politics
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 […]
Grudginely, I am starting a new category in this blog on US Politics. I work with a lot of British folk and they are all very curious about the US, and in particular, the US political system. I, as an American, am not really that curious about it because it’s […]
[“2020-11-03”,32801,894] In St Louis County 3 souls died from Covid 19 on November 3, election day. There are 32,801 cases of Covid 19. [“2020-11-03”,8976,225] In the city of St Louis, no one died and there are 8,976 cases. St Louis County has about 1 million population while the city has […]
The old joke is that George Washington slept in every bed in Pennsylvania. And it is true that if you visit every city, town, village, and hamlet — you will find a sign saying “George Washington slept here”. In fact, if you go to Cambridge Massachusetts and visit Longfellow’s house, […]
Two weeks before the election, a President accuses his sole adversary as running a “criminal enterprise”. To play the Devil’s advocate, let’s assume that he is right. The challenger is a criminal, and his family are criminals, and they have engaged in racketeering — i.e. conspiracy. Now we can’t trust […]