When Mitch McConnell’s disregard for the Constitution reaped the dividend of having Neil Gorsuch replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court many predicted nothing would change other than Scalia was effectively given another thirty or forty years on the bench. Monday morning the Court proved that when it announced its 5-4 decision, (with Gorsuch writing the opinion for the majority), in the combined cases EPIC Systems Corp. v Lewis, Ernst & Young v Morris and NLRB v Murphy Oil. Let’s explore. Continue reading Divide And Exploit
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Private Information
This may not be the biggest political story of last week, but there is a huge national dialog about just how private our information is today. Much of it is centered on Facebook and how their data played a part in Russiagate. For the record I am not a huge fan of Facebook, I own no stock in it, I believe I signed up once to help the malarkey numbers of a political campaign but I wouldn’t even know how to sign in. In fact I could care less if Facebook survives this scandal (I’m betting they will). This article is not a defense of Facebook, but I think the problem is much bigger than Facebook and the average American is largely defenseless. Let’s explore. Continue reading Private Information
Common Cause; Purloined Example
Sometime the best way to convince people that what you are talking about is important to them is to tell them a story. I tend to be a big picture, statistics type guy but most Americans are not. I recently read Gloria Steinem’s book, My Life on the Road, and the example cited in this article is purloined from it. Continue reading Common Cause; Purloined Example