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Ever wonder why there are so many jokes about lawyers? Well Patriots Wide Receiver Randy Moss recently found out why as he became the victim of attempted extortion courtesy of Florida Attorney David McGill and a former friend of his, Rachell Washington. Recently Randy and Rachelle had enaged in some horseplay and while doing so she hurt her finger. It must not have been her middle finger however because she gave poor Randy the bird when she filed a restraining order against him because of what happened.

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Are you middle class? Own a home? Have a college education? Have a decent standard of living but by no means wealthy? Here’s a better question, have a candidate?

While researching the various candidates to try and decide who to support it has become increasingly clear to me that unless I have a yacht or am on welfare that I don’t have a horse in the race. While many candidates will talk about helping the middle class, they never really specify what their idea of the middle class is. That’s where the problem lies. If you ask a Republican to define middle class they will probably tell you its someone who makes over 200K a year, has a big house, 2 luxury cars and struggles to make the tuition payments to Yale and Princeton. If you ask a Democrat to define the middle class they will probably tell you it’s someone who makes under 50K a year, rents a run down apartment, is a single family home with 4 kids and makes minimum wage. What about the rest of us? It is just me or have many of us become invisible? Read the rest of this entry »

While trying to decide who to vote for this primary season I have tried to keep an open mind. In doing so I have found myself very interested in the ideas of Republican Ron Paul. He holds a strict constructionist view of The Constitution meaning that he does not support giving any powers to the Federal Government that are not explicitly stated in The Constitution. The widespread ramifications of such a belief are potentially enormous. For instance, in the eyes of Ron Paul the Internal Revenue Service as well as the Department of Education are completely unnecessary institutions that should be dismantled. I cannot argue with his viewpoint here as the Department of Education adds needless bureaucracy when schools could be better managed at the local level by the states. The whole concept of an income tax is mentioned nowhere in The Constitution and revenues could be collected just as easily and with a lot less red tape through a national consumption tax.

While I like these ideas there is one area where Ron Paul falls short. He is anti war and thinks that the United States should withdraw its troops from all foreign locations and stop trying to be the world’s policeman. This is not necessarily a bad idea either and would save both lives and an enormous amount of money. The problem is how Ron Paul would react in certain situations. His philosophy is that unless the United States is directly threatened by another country that we should not get involved. This sounds great in theory but in reality leaves open the potential for disaster. While we are in the middle of an unpopular war in Iraq, the idea of isolationism sounds appealing. It would be nice if the United States could just bury its head in the sand and ignore the problems of the world around us, unfortunately as a superpower we cannot do that.

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