“The legitimacy of the FEC depends on the conceit of journalistic objectivity ... But of course what we have is a Jonathan Gruber press...”
WELL SAID!
Yes, media bias is a problem.
Currently media’s power keeps fading. This communication revolution warms my heart!
So naturally, the Ruling Class wants to crush ‘anti-central-power’ communications and ‘water them down’.
And a powerful tool to defend free speech would be the mandatory debate process — more speech instead of less. It is actually an ‘anti-power’ authority, an equalizer the same as a gun equalizes violent conflict.
[It’s in the spirit of the 2nd Amendment.]
Not clogging your ping with all of my responses. Actually I’m happy to face a strong counter-point. Pleasantly surprised to anticipate every point people here made so far [with your one shining exception], so please don’t take offense.
Despite my spirited responses, your combination of virtues and talents — I appreciate them.
God bless you. FRegards ....
What would a judge, politician, or professor have to fear from fair debates unless he or she secretly knows that someone else’s logic might win out? Otherwise, it's a minor nuisance to people who should be more than happy to educate others.
[Now for veterans ...]
The Concept Mandatory Debate is a platform for a future way veterans could also have a voice.
A future idea to ponder — Veterans could elect someone who has the same mandatory debate authority [term limited to a single year each], and then turns could be taken [between mandators] for ‘debate slots’ so that the ‘victims’ of these ‘wicked debate tyrannies’ are not too frequently imposed upon. Such debates could even launch political careers for voices of the veterans.
Not as urgent as states’ rights, but veterans hold a unique perspective. Do people realize that veterans are uniquely qualified to ‘feel’ the value of a strong national economy?
An army might march on its stomach, but that's the easy part. Everything needs to be paid for — weapons, planes, choppers, transport, fuel-for-transport, barracks, ships, you-name-it! All paid for with federal revenue.
When lavish union-pensions leech off our economy, when our energy policy weakens our policy, when industry is kicked out of here and shipped off overseas — veterans can see more clearly than most how that impacts National Security. They even travel more than most throughout the world and see firsthand how different economies function, and the effect that has on other militaries.
And many veterans sometimes enjoy a unique perspective about God and morality. If you steal rations from your buddy in the foxhole, you might ‘die in your sins’ and go to hell for such a petty thing! They often ‘find religion’ when under fire. And also, they see the wickedness of foreign godless lands and don't want to see any of that back here in the USA.
Veterans also feel a strong yearning to keep our nation sparkling because their buddies DIED for us! Or, “That kid crouched next to me is now a paraplegic.”
Their desire to maintain this nation's greatness is rooted so deeply that ... to feel it you would weep.
So one day, I hope that veterans will elect their own debate mandating representative.
— And THEN let's see people trash military funerals!
— THEN let's hear Congress-critter Stark cuss out a war hero!
— THEN let's hear ‘Turban Durbin’ squirm his way out of one debate after another week-after-week along with all the other slandering creeps who malign them.
— Then let's see scheming leftists try to sabotage military votes. Or Ben Ghazi. Or all the stinking rest of it!
— Let's see how popular ACLU lawsuits are that oppose Old Glory, or the Pledge, or represent terrorists who actually desecrated our heroes’ uniforms from behind bars, or some other cockeyed nonsense that many veterans despise.
— Let's hear what veterans collectively think of the Victory Mosque.
And if anything happens to our brave heroes in Liberia, I think many will agree — give them a voice!
I confess — some of my ideas might seem ‘nasty’. I describe them another way. It's a savage form of love that chivalry extolled ...
The Thirst for Righteousness.
I'm not waiting around for that thirst to be quenched.
Are you?
And why should POTUS have the authority to grant pardons after the presidential election is over?? Should’t that authority be limited to campaign time, when the voters can meaningfully respond to such action?