The Book of the Shadows

Freedom of speech is one of the central tenets not only of our democracy, but of just governance in general. But it is limited. Is that right, and what are those limits?

Esquire magazine conducted a survey whose goal was to determine the political leanings of the American community. Such surveys have been done in the past, and have established the popular assertion that the country as a whole is “center right”, meaning we as the American public are mostly independent, but lean towards the conservative side of the spectrum.

I have a simple view to share regarding the current government shutdown. I’ve resisted making comments on the matter for now because of the fact that, quite frankly, I didn’t expect that it would take so long for things to be put to an end. We have troops in Afghanistan, we’re trying to manage a very volatile Middle East situation right now, the economy has been struggling to return to normalcy… shutting down the government and threatening the debt ceiling is not something reasonable people do at a time like this.