Tom Paine, precursor of bloggers, knew how to solve persistent problems.

Constant, unrelieved criticism debilitates supporters and rallies contraries. Overlooked are ideas that appeal across the political spectrum.

The polar icecap of politics is breaking up. Both voters and legislators are reforming the electoral process. Then the citizenry’s best values and highest goals can win.

Special Interests and plutocrats have taken over more of the government with the complacency of each passing generation while younger generation change makers are chastised.

Voter fraud threatens democracy. The remedy was proposed long ago by Thomas Jefferson.

Electronic voting can be and has been manipulated.

People have bigger problems than measuring the “rents”. Or do they?

Disruptions of political campaigns destroy democracy.

The democratic process toay is inherently flawed.

Costly ballot access stifles democracy.

The only way to implement absolute democracy is for each participant to voluntarily agree to the governance structure, and be able to exit when one no longer agrees.

The view that general welfare or interstate commerce authorize the U.S. federal government to use any force whatsoever on U.S. citizens is contrary to legal logic.

The protests about the election for president of Iran do not just indicate a problem with the vote count, but more deeply a problem with mass voting.

New Jersey's December 2007 abolition of the death penalty is a remarkable signal that the political pendulum is swinging toward liberalism

How can the Democratic Party chiefs claim they can govern better, when they cannot even manage an orderly primary election process?

Subprime Loans, Subsidized Land, and Manipulated Money

The civil war between the Fatah and Hamas parties in Gaza and the victory by Hamas militants is yet another example of the dismal failure of mass democracy

With many Americans, and folks around the world, outraged by the corruption and arrogance of the current U.S. chiefs, many are turning to a third political party