Legalese May Be Legal But It Sure Isn’t Easy

By Michael A. Matteo

One of Shakespeare’s most memorable lines comes from Henry VI when Dick The Butcher, says, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” This is Shakespeare’s idea of Utopia, a world without those who make up the majority of Congress and who have created their own language to give their occupation a sense of purpose and the right to charge $300 for a phone call. After reading the amendments that were placed on the most recent ballot I would have to agree with Dick the Butcher.

Let’s take a look at the language of some of the amendments that appeared on the ballot in Florida this year. The most controversial amendment was this one which read as follows: (more…)

Candidates can say and do whatever they want because voters don’t hold them accountable

Approximately 16 years ago I was running for the school board in Hillsborough County. One of the candidates made an impassioned speech about morality and stated that if she were elected she would see to it that the Bible was put back into the classroom. She received applause for that statement. I whispered to another candidate, “I think she’s running for the wrong office, if that’s what she wants to do then she really needs to seek an appointment to the Supreme Court because they are the only ones who can make a difference on that issue.” (more…)

You won’t find it this year at least not in foreign policy.

By Eleanora Yurkevich

“The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together”
– Barack Obama. Berlin, Germany 2008.

Want change? How about changing the rhetoric. Each time a politician wants to sell a tough-to-digest agenda they tempt Americans with “evils of Communism”. The commies are Evil! Them against us! Or, compare those inconvenient players to Hitler, my personal favorite, “axis of evil,” and the new and (more…)