SODOM & GOMORRAH: The supermajority is a concept that defies all logic. The supermajority is the practice of requiring more than 51% to enact a law, statute, or rule. In modern government, the supermajority requirement is generally reserved for very important decisions: constitutional changes, overturning an executive veto, etc. On face value, it seems to make sense – it … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2011
Article Five of the United States Constitution
SODOM & GOMORRAH: Did the Founding Fathers ever fully think through Article Five of the US Constitution? @kalimkassam, poking libertarians and tea partiers a little, suggested that the US Constitution has historically proven to be a blueprint for unlimited government. The argument has been suggested in dark hallways far from the Beltway, but it does need to be considered. … [Read more...]
Occupy Wall Street a Flop
SODOM & GOMORRAH: The press didn't pick up on the Day of Rage nonsense until after it fizzled. We gave you a heads up last month. For some time, Restorus.org has been tracking what we term “the swarm”. Our argument has been that the revolutionaries act as a decentralized swarm instead of within a centralized program. This is why it's futile to try to identify any leader or … [Read more...]
The Jobs Plan
SODOM & GOMORRAH: There's too much at stake for us to continue the current jobs rhetoric. We all sound like a bunch of old Soviets with our talk of jobs. Indeed, as Oleg Kalugin mentions in his biographical work “Spymaster” (he was a KGB general), as the Soviet Union grew closer to collapse, the political insistence on making sure Soviet citizens were working to the best … [Read more...]
Should Christians be Socialists?
SODOM & GOMORRAH: Gregory Paul has joined a long line of people who criticize conservative Christians for being against socialism. He's argued that Jesus and Christianity are self evidently socialistic and that any support of capitalism will contradict Biblical teachings. Jay W. Richards at the Washington Post has responded to Mr. Paul by saying that there really aren't … [Read more...]