Truth in Advertising

We’ve had a long line of Political Parties in our Nation’s history. According to Wikipedia, we’ve had 62 parties that no longer exist, not to mention the 53 national parties that are currently active. The list of extinct parties include such gems as the National Women’s Party (1913-1930), which was active prior to women even having the right to vote, the Farmer Labor Party (1918 – 1944), which represented farmers dislocated as a result of World War 1, and the American Vegetarian Party (1948 – 1964), which, apparently, pursued a national Vegetarian agenda. But what do these examples have that our Republican and Democrat Parties do not currently exhibit? Simple Answer: Truth In Advertising.

Left or Right?

I’ve paid attention to politics for as long as I can remember. So I always assumed that everybody knew and understood political terminology. But in the last several years, I’ve come to realize that a surprising number of people have aligned themselves with a group without knowing what that group’s core beliefs really are. The [...]