by Paul Hamlin For the naïve and uninitiated, the campaign trail is full of heartache and pain. The apathy, the dismay and the contempt that the voter has about the election process and all people who dare run a campaign is astounding, and not necessarily misplaced. PERSONAL JOURNEY When I struck out to run […]
by Paul Hamlin Today’s political environment is corrosive and toxic. There can be no question of that. We are often motivated by fear and anger when we approach anyone that has a different opinion than we do. We have allowed this anger and fear to create severe division and allowed the political parties to capitalize […]
by Paul Hamlin Emoluments, seems like a strange word in modern conversation and it is a confusing word when applied to modern politics. This idea has come back to the forefront of the national political conversation, and as always there are several interpretations and several different solutions based primarily on what side of the political […]
by Paul Hamlin “We The People” In modern political history there has rarely been three more radical, more revolutionary words spoken or written. “We the people” represents an idea far bigger, far greater than the simple everyday petty politics. The Constitution is the idea that all people should focus on first, arguments about policy […]
by Paul Hamlin This may be chicken and egg argument, but in truth it doesn’t matter. The American family is disintegrating, and it really doesn’t matter what happened first, whether societal pressures are destroying families or if families dissolving are causing the societal illness. What we do know is that the family is a representation […]
by Paul Hamlin School House Rock Remember the “School House Rock” on how a bill becomes a law? It was a part of my childhood and it is how many of us were introduced to the function of our legislators and legislation. In case you are not of my generation take a look here: […]
by Paul Hamlin Our system is broken. The way we do elections, our political party system and the expectations placed on our congress people is so flawed that we need to make considerations about, not just how we fix it, but who should be permitted to fix it. Congress has become a divisive and divided […]
by Paul Hamlin Impeachment talk is on the rise in national politics. Our nation is divided deeply by the words, actions and policies of the current administration. We recently had a group of (58) from the House of Representatives bring forward articles of impeachment against President Trump and it was quickly tabled. The division in the nation has […]
by Paul Hamlin Decency – it can be brought back to life Remember the days of “the wave”? You’d be out driving, running, walking, or out in public (with real people) and someone would see you, they may not even know you, but they’d strangely wave, or at the least nod. It was a bizarre […]
