Lifestyles?

Someone likes the tax cuts!  These two cottages with Lake Michigan frontage are going up on one of my regular runs along the lake in the Chicago area’s North Shore. More modest accommodations: on other side of the tracks How does this happen? Is it OK? Is there anything that can be done?  

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Who Votes?

The framers of the Constitution assembled at Philadelphia in the summer of 1787  were educated students of history familiar with the philosophies of Locke, Montesquieu and Aristotle. In 350 B.C.E., Aristotle wrote in Politics about three forms of government and how they evolve: Form: Starts As: Becomes: Rule by One Monarchy Tyranny Rule by Few […]

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Mercenary War Globalism

Talk about Globalism: Blackwater or as it has called itself since 2011, Academi, is now a division of  Constellis Holdings based in Reston, Virginia. Marketing Description of Services: “integrated security and technical operations, domestic and international training, security assessment and analysis, risk mitigation, and technology solutions.” In plain words: Runs an army for the United […]

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