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Corporations Are People, My Friend: Using a Gun is Weak Anyone who needs a gun to prove a point is already operating from a position of weakness. If force is required to assert control, influence an outcome, or make a statement, then the argument itself cannot stand on its own. That is the baseline. The

Corporations Are People, My Friend: When “Socialism” Becomes a Moving Target in American Power and Policy The modern political argument over “socialism” in the United States has become less about economic theory and more about rhetorical positioning. What was once a term tied to a defined framework, state ownership of the means of production, centralized

Corporations Are People, My Friend: If a Kid Blamed Everything, You’d Stop It—So Why Don’t We Now? If a 13-year-old got caught doing something wrong and answered every question by blaming the teacher, the kid next door, the weather, the rules, the store owner, the school, the principal, and the person who happened to be

Corporations Are People, My Friend: The SAVE America Act is not a technical adjustment to election law This was my post for the week before I was sidetracked by the Laguna Hills story but anyway, I wrote about this at Explore New Jersey and at the Sunset Daily News the other day. The SAVE America Act is not a

Corporations Are People, My Friend: Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County Reunion I’ve had a strange dichotomy hit me over the last day. It just happened, and I’m trying to make sense of it as I go. I also have another article to post about the SAVE America Act, but at the same time, I

Corporations Are People, My Friend: I Think the War Is Over but Anyway, What Are We Doing? I Got Lost The sequence of events around the Iran conflict has not followed a clean or linear path, and that is the starting point for understanding where things stand now. The lead-up to the ceasefire was defined

Corporations Are People, My Friend: How the Economics of Incarceration Found Its Next Market There is a longstanding American instinct to describe policy as the product of principle, law, order, safety, and the abstract promise of justice. Beneath that language, however, sits a more operational reality. Policy often follows incentives. Few systems expose that truth

Corporations Are People, My Friend: Dependence on Oil and the Political Silence Around Alternatives The United States remains dependent on oil, and that dependence is exposed every time prices spike. Despite record domestic production, Americans still pay more when global conflicts disrupt supply. Oil is priced on a global market, not controlled domestically, so events