NSA Bulk Collection of Telephone Records Ended, or did it?
Harold Pease, Ph. D November 29, 2015, was the deadline for the end of NSA bulk collection of telephone records as established by the USA Freedom Act six months ago. This ended the Patriot Act, revealed by Edward Snowden, to have been the authority…
Thanksgiving, Not Just Turkey Day
Harold Pease, Ph. D Our first Congress wanted a national day of “thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to…
Yes, States Can Refuse Syrian Refugees
By Harold Pease, Ph. D More than half of the states, as of last report, have placed restrictions on Syrian Refugees entering their states until the federal government can show a better screening program to insure that our Muslim sympathetic…
The Best Place to Study Gun Issues is Chicago
By Harold Pease, Ph. D Every scientist looks for the best place to study his targeted phenomenon—tornadoes in the Mid-West, hurricanes in the Caribbean, ice thinning in the Arctic or thickening in the Antarctic. For gun issues this would be Chicago…
Congress does not want Fiscal Irresponsibility on Ballot
By Harold Pease, Ph. D Who says that bipartisanship does not exist in the Federal Government? In a largely secret and hurriedly framed agreement between President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,…
Supreme Court may yet rule Obamacare unconstitutional
By Harold Pease, Ph. D On October 26, 2015, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed a new challenge with the Supreme Court contending that ObamaCare violates the Constitution that requires all tax-raising bills to originate in the House of…
Constitutionally the House cannot select a non-member Speaker
By Harold Pease Ph. D Perhaps by the time this column is published a new Speaker of the House will have been selected and the issue resolved, for now. At present, with no member of the House wanting the job, the idea of having someone not presently…
What Kevin McCarthy did to Kevin McCarthy
By Harold Pease, Ph. D The fact that my congressman, Kevin McCarthy, could not secure 218 Republican House votes to replace Speaker John A. Boehner, after virtually being nominated by him, did not surprise me—he earned it. He is an extremely…
Allow Teachers to Protect their Students and Themselves
By Dr. Harold Pease One of the revelations that surfaced from the Umpqua Community College Massacre, the worst in Oregon history, was that the deranged gunman, (I join others in refusing to name the killer giving him desired publicity) carried…