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Starting back in the 1960s, there have been those who say that we should not spend money on spaceflight until we fix problems here on earth. Frankly, I feel sorry for those who say we shouldn’t explore space. I think it is a basic human drive to be curious about the universe. But could we […]

I really didn’t like taking a foreign language class when I was in school. I saw automatic translators on Star Trek and figured our technology would catch up to that. I was not alone. There’s a story, perhaps not completely true, that goes something like this. In 1956 the computer people said we would have […]

Is America the greatest country in the world? It is easy to give an affirmative answer. Any other answer would cost you votes if you are running for a political office. But I think the answer must be defensible and that’s what I’ll try to do here. First, I think this epoch in history is […]

This is a proposal to add a third legislative body to the federal government of the United States of America. Original House of Representatives The original house of representatives had one representative for every 33,000 people in the U.S. It roughly maintained that ratio until 1911 when it was decided to free the size of […]