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A Presidency With No Limits

Whether you like our current President or not, one thing that seems to characterize his actions is that there seems to be no limits in what he can do. In a recent two-hour interview with members of the press, he was asked if there were any limits to his global power. President Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It is the only thing that can stop me.” His answer did not mention any Constitutional limitations to his power. The public now is beginning to understand this as reflected in the recent “No Kings” demonstrations that sprung up around ...

Quiet USPS Change Could Decide If Ballots Count

On Christmas Eve, when most of us—including the news—were focused on wrapping presents and preparing to gather with family and friends, the United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a policy change with newly binding legal consequences. It has the potential to put you in violation of the law or invalidate your mail-in ballot during upcoming elections. According to the Federal Register (Postal Service 39 CFR Part 111), as of December 24, 2025, you can no longer count on your mail being postmarked on the day the post office receives it. Now, your mail will be postmarked when it ...

Supreme Court Takes Up Tariffs

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the question of tariffs. The challengers to President Trump’s tariffs are two family-owned corporations: Learning Resources, Inc., and hand2mind, Inc. They’re headquartered in Vernon Hills, Ill., have 500 employees in the United States, and sell educational tools for younger and older children. However, they manufacture them abroad, primarily in China. Now you can begin to see why tariffs targeting China would displease Learning Resources and hand2mind. It’s tempting to ask why they manufacture their wares abroad, primarily in China. ...

China Has The Edge On Electricity

As Americans we believe that we are always the leaders when it comes to infrastructure and technology. That is not the case with electricity. China already consumes twice as much electrical energy as the United States and is way ahead of us when it comes to the efficiency and capacity of their electric grid to transport energy, including renewable energy, across their country. The most efficient way of transporting electricity anywhere is with high voltage electric lines. The higher the voltage, the more electricity that can be transported. It is hard to build such lines in the ...

Nation’s Tax Unfairness Soars Under Trump

Three incredible what-ifs, one right after the other, underscore the direction of America’s tax code over the last several decades. They appear early on in the 2021 book Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer. Shock after shock, here they come: “If you had worked every single day from the time Columbus sailed to America to the present and earned $5,000 per day, you would still have less money than Jeff Bezos makes in a week.” “If you had made $100,000 every single day since the year 1 A.D. and saved every penny, you would still have less ...

State Minimum Wage Increases Show State Values Work

As of January 1, New York State’s minimum wage for Upstate is $16.00 up from $15.50. New York State’s minimum wage was the same as the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 as recently as 2013, 13 years ago. Beginning in 2014, the State Legislature put in place increases in the State minimum wage that has brought us to $16 now. The United States Congress, in contrast, has not raised the $7.25 Federal minimum wage since 2009, 17 years ago. In the face of Federal inaction, at least 30 states have enacted state minimum wages above the Federal $7.25. That means, however, that 20 states, ...