EP 808 We Are Not Alone

EP 808 We Are Not Alone

Longtime Defense researcher Luis Elizondo has become associated with reporting on the existence of UFOs(unidentified flying objects), now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena(UAPs).  He made headlines in 2017 when he resigned as a senior intelligence official running a Pentagon program investigating these objects in the sky and alerted the public to the fact that the …

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EP 807 Are Grades Failing Our Children?

EP 807 Are Grades Failing Our Children?

 What kind of question is that, you may ask?  We’ve always had grades.  How would we evaluate performance without them?  Is this just another ‘woke’ idea, like participation trophies for playing the game?  How will they learn to compete in this dog eat dog world awaiting our students?  Joshua Eyler, director of the Center for …

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EP 806 Best Colleges Ranked in a Different Way

EP 806 Best Colleges Ranked in a Different Way

While the rankings for U.S. News & World Report seem to get most of the attention, perhaps there’s another lens we should put on the ranking process.  Paul Glastris, editor-in-chief of Washington Monthly, once worked there and sensed that there is a better scoring system to reflect the needs of more students across the country, …

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EP 803 Are the Justice Department and FBI Free From Political Influence?

EP 803 Are the Justice Department and FBI Free From Political Influence?

 Many presidents have attempted to influence the actions of the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI for political means.  I am old enough to remember the Saturday Night Massacre, as it was called, in Richard Nixon’s presidency during the Watergate scandal. And the FBI had its own political agenda on the remarkably long, and dubious, …

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EP 802 Is America Becoming a Vigilante Nation?

EP 802 Is America Becoming a Vigilante Nation?

Usually we define vigilantes as the barbarians at the gate who want to disrupt the order of things.  What if the state itself becomes that disruptor bringing the chaos not protecting us from it?  Two law professors, Jon Michaels, of UCLA, and David Noll, of Rutgers University, make a compelling case in “Vigilante Nation: How …

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EP 801 Do We Have a ‘Deep State’ or a Modern Administrative State?

EP 801 Do We Have a ‘Deep State’ or a Modern Administrative State?

It’s never happened before where a presidential candidate promises to throw sand in the gears of a modern democracy in order to bend all levers of government to his will.  Sure, we have had much rumination about how slow or inert government agencies have become, or how there might be overreach on the part of …

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EP 800 Business Lobbyists Have Dominated D.C. for Fifty Years: Now It All Makes Sense

EP 800 Business Lobbyists Have Dominated D.C. for Fifty Years: Now It All Makes Sense

  We have had nearly fifty years of wage stagnation, unaffordable health care, low social mobility, predatory mortgage practices, and inflamed class and race resentments.  That’s the same period in which business lobbyists have overwhelmed the scene in Washington, D.C. with smart, aggressive and targeted approaches to influencing Congressional action. And they have had their …

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EP 799 An Imperial Supreme Court Leaves Its Indelible Mark on American Society

EP 799 An Imperial Supreme Court Leaves Its Indelible Mark on American Society

  It is somewhat dizzying to think about the radical effect this version of the Supreme Court, the Roberts Court, has had on American life. From the curtailing of voting rights to abortion, affirmative action, presidential immunity, regulatory oversight and gun safety measures, this Supreme Court has thought nothing of overturning precedent and, according to …

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