Exploring the Political Spectrum
Blog URL http://exploreps.blogspot.com/
Located Wayne, Pennsylvania USA
Tags History, Politics, International, Pennsylvania
Political history blog. Also addresses current events. Worldwide, with some concentration on my current state of Pennsylvania and my native state of Minnesota. Not generally an opinion blog, but I'm libertarian-right on the spectrum.
Latest Blog Posts
- You're no George Washington on Nov 20, 2009 in Britain Washington EU
The American Constitution is often held up as the perfect governmental structure. The checks and balances bring things back into line, when any person or institution oversteps. And the amendment procedure is flexible enough to allow the document to...
- Medicare: The Sequel on Nov 19, 2009 in F. Roosevelt Health Care G.W. Bush
Nicholas Kristof, in The New York Times, cites similarities between the arguments that are currently being made against the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care plans, and objections that were raised when the Social Security and Medicare programs were first...
- Take two aspirin, read the Constitution, and call me in the morning on Nov 19, 2009 in Obama Health Care Supreme Court
George Will analyzes constitutional implications of the health care bills under consideration in Congress.He makes some plausible arguments about provisions of those bills being unconstitutional. But there doesn't seem to be any obvious cut-and-drie...
- Reconciliation on Nov 19, 2009 in Senate Health Care
I wrote here about a possible filibuster that would stop the Senate health care debate before it starts.But there has been much talk about the Senate's Democratic majority doing an end run around the filibuster rules. One vehicle for such a maneuver...
- 20 Years Ago 12: Laggards on Nov 18, 2009 in Revolutions of 1989
Some of the East-Central European countries that had had Marxist-Leninist regimes were slower than others, in voting those regimes out of power.In Poland, even though the 1989 election had been rigged to produce a Communist victory, the Solidarity un...
- Health Care: A Modest Proposal on Nov 18, 2009 in Health Care
Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, makes an interesting counterproposal to the Democrats' health care plans, on his blog Marginal Revolution.It seems to achieve most of the goals I set out here and here, in my description of an ide...
- The other public option is to filibuster on Nov 18, 2009 in Senate Health Care Reid
As the Senate leadership tries to get floor debate going on a health care bill, an early cloture vote looms.This New York Times article describes the situation facing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who needs all 60 of his troops to stay in line,...
