Political System Thinker Gifts

People Power

Department of No One Could Have Anticipated.

"You're fired."

"Nation-building never works."

The Signing of tthe United States Constitution

"'I don't want war'. . . well, wither our translation program is broke or this president has a strange kind of humor!"

"The university said he was a climate change denier so remove the statue."

Pretty Flowers

America, are we learning anything?

Oligarchy

'You realize, we can't use the 'benign neglect' method for everything.'

"I can't decide what I fear the most, Putin's Russia or Putin's America."

The International and May Day Terrorism

"Take this declaration of war and punch it up."

Ahem. I'm eating. Not now, please. Just one tiny question. Believers I American exceptionalism have always said we're the paragon of democracy. So I'm just wondering … How come one party is passing unnecessary laws that'll keep millions of us from voting? They're robbing us of our voice! Could've surprised me.

Donald Trump Removing Aggressor Label From Vladimir Putin

"I don't like the looks of that!"

"Hey, remember a few days ago, when all this was unacceptable?"

King George I

CIA report

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

George Orwell

Where does it all end up?

That's What Happens

To Err Is Human, to Mess up Big-Time Is Democratic

'Ah, it's so precious to witness a child learn how government actually works...'

Archival Warfare

Stephen Spender.

Compression

"Whoa, don't ask constitutional questions you don't want to know the answers to."

U.S. Foreign Policy

An informed voter is a good voter

Matryoshka/ Russian Gas Cylinders

Spot the Difference - God/Uncle Sam

Constitutional Convention. We're behind schedule, everybody wanted to make a speech about the first amendment. For the second amendment, let's stick to bullet points. (Published previously on May 19, 2010).