Last night, I attended the forum for Congressional candidates in Missouri’s Second District sponsored by the League of Women Voters. It was terrific, except
Category: Democracy
Debate moderators can learn from pastor in Flint about shutting down Trump
Do you remember back in 2012 when debate moderator Candy Crowley interrupted Mitt Romney for having his facts mixed up? There was a big
How Verizon convinced me to use paper ballots
Two things happened to me over this past weekend to strengthen my conviction that paper ballots are superior to electronic voting machines. The first
It’s not fair to call Trump “crazy,” but …
The candidacy of Donald Trump poses a real question about the mental health of a political figure and who can try to analyze it.
What about the freedoms not related to guns?
If you watch enough news, if you listen to enough talk-radio, if you even read mainstream press, you might think that the only part
There’s no crying in baseball, or politics
As I watched some of the Bernie Sanders supporters at the Monday night session of the Democratic National Convention, I couldn’t help but think
What Obama and Sanders can do to keep “the Bern” alive while helping Clinton
President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders met on Thursday, June 9, 2016 to discuss “where do we go now” following the primaries
Defeating supply-side economics with supply-side democracy
One of the terms with which Republicans couch their conservative views is supply-side economics. It sounds innocent enough, but history since the “Reagan Revolution”
Uncontested: One of the worst words in a democracy
It has always been hard to unseat an incumbent candidate. The advantages of already possessing a legislative title like State Representative or State Senator
50 ways to cheat your voters
If you want to prevent certain people from voting, you’ve got a lot of options. Some are legal; some are not. Most of us