TheWorx

Protests are powerful forces, but only an armed movement can accomplish things if they remain small. Unarmed resistance must be large to get the job done. I see the present movement--called by such names as Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening--as lacking in numbers. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, via their celebrity status, help bring attention to the movement. That's great. Love it. However, how do we increase the numbers? As a B12 shot in the arm, the movements have turned to peaceful rebellion in the form of voluntary arrests, but with minimal or even negative mainstream media coverage it is unlikely that the numbers would go anywhere but down. The Capitol Police are very diligent when it comes to following through with their orders but no one on the force would like to spend resources on defending themselves against lawsuits--especially if it can really be helped. At this point, I'd like to point out a very significant difference between celebrities and your ave...

In legitimizing Ted Cruz' run for the U.S. presidency, people talk about Romney (born in Mexico) and McCain (Panama Canal Zone) and Barry Goldwater (born in Arizona before it was a state). All lost their presidential bid and that is reason enough for any major party to eschew the candidacy of the foreign born but one must try to understand the intent of the founding fathers and that intent is as clear as a pledge of allegiance. If a candidate is born elsewhere (I, BTW, would have added "and must have had a primary residence in the U.S. for their first 35 years of life and lived there for 9 months out of every one of those 35 years," to Article II), there is a greater chance of bias towards the nation of birth. It is not absolute but you are led to wonder what Germany would have done without the moustachioed Austrian and what France would have done without the Corsican. [Germany has done well especially with such things as Apple Corporation seeing fit to give her the lion...