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End of an Error

20 Jan 202120 Jan 2021

The Trump Administration is finally over. Just as bad as anticipated, Trump leaves office having accomplished little of benefit, and under the flag of (so far) failed insurrectionists. His pettiness…

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Choate’s Election Guide 2020, Down-Ballot, Part 2

12 Oct 202012 Oct 2020

Early voting begins tomorrow in Texas, and it’s very exciting. I’ve discussed my recommendations for President, Congress, and part of the down-ballot candidates. Today, I will race through to the…

Choate’s Election 2020 Guide, Down-Ballot Guide, Part 1

9 Oct 20209 Oct 2020

The other day, I discussed the Congressional candidates, with no surprises in my recommendations. Before that, I discussed the Presidential nominees, and obviously recommended Joe Biden. Today, I’m beginning my…

Choate’s 2020 Election Guide, Congress Edition

7 Oct 20207 Oct 2020

The other day, I discussed the options for President, and unsurprisingly recommended Joe Biden. And that was before President Trump’s PR stunt springing himself from Walter Reed! This post is…

Choate’s 2020 Election Voting Guide

5 Oct 20205 Oct 2020

Well, here we are. Less than one month before the general election featuring the choice for President of the United States on November 3, 2020. 8 days from now, early…

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Bribery Finally Gets Alleged

15 Nov 201915 Nov 2019

Every couple of days, commentators affiliated with Fox News do a tremendous disservice to their viewers by lying about the application of laws to particular behavior. A few days ago,…

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A Citizen Who Happens to be President

29 May 201929 May 2019

Thirty-some odd years ago, as my political sensibilities began to awaken, one of my biggest questions was why Richard Nixon was, in the first place, allowed to resign, and, even…

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The Constitution’s Achilles Heel–Part III

14 Feb 201914 Feb 2019

This post is the third installment of my short look at the Constitution and how democracy is intetionally and unintentionally stymied under its construction. The first post looked at the…

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The Constitution’s Achilles Heel–Part II

25 Jan 201925 Jan 2019

In my previous post, I dove into the way the drafters envisioned the composition of the Legislative and Executive branches, and how the populace was supposed to be kept at…

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The Constitution’s Achilles Heel

24 Jan 201924 Jan 2019

In theory, the citizen who happens to be President of the United States should be relatively unimportant to the general public. The writers of the Constitution intentionally devised a system…