Emolument or Emolient? Does the Constitution prohibit financial conflicts of interest by the President of the United States?

One of the timely the questions working its way through the federal district courts in Manhattan and the District of Columbia is whether Donald Trump’s apparent conflicts of interest in his and his family’s ongoing involvement in the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC and other golf course and real estate development ventures implicates the […]

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A New History of the Holocaust.

  The New York Times reported today and yesterday that Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, just removed a right leaning German minister, Hans-Georg Maassen, from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for his alleged failure to effectively monitor and control the rise of neo-facist political parties in Germany. Facism is very much […]

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Bury Goldwater Rule??

During the 1964 Presidential campaign Senator Barry Goldwater (R. Ariz.), issued a number of statements concerning his willingness to actually use tactical nuclear weapons in limited conflicts. Goldwater’s nuclear musings led to broad concerns about his embrace of “extremism,” magnified by pro-Johnson ads depicting a young girl picking petals off of daisy with a nuclear […]

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Echoes Of  Dodge V. The Ford MotorCompany (1919)

In its August 15, 2018 edition, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece written by Senator Elizabeth Warren, (D. Mass.) under the caption “Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders.” In her article, Senator Warren notes a fundamental change in business practices occurring in the late 1980s in favor of rewarding corporate shareholders with […]

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The Elopement of Empathy: Henry Ford and Donald Trump

Henry Ford and Donald Trump, two prominent and successful businessmen in their separate times, developed dangerous, maladaptive personalities leavened by an overwhelming need to protect their vulnerable, inner selves with an obsessive armor of self-absorption and advancement — extreme narcissism. Their individual successes largely spun around a core of special talent and ability and a […]

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Base Alloy

Karl Marx once said that “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Many observers have commented on the recent reinfection of right-wing nativism and anti-immigrant bigotry that echo the earlier rise of the Know-Nothing political party in the 1850s and the resurrection of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s. The current contamination […]

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