An Open Letter to Israel
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A series of proposals designed to reshape Israel’s posture toward its neighbors from its present negative, unproductive stance to a more positive and, hopefully, more constructive one.
In support of the Securities & Exchange Dismission
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In failing miserably to meet its own mission-statement objectives during the Great Recession, the Security and Exchange Commission provided another example of the limitation of big-government regulation. Not surprisingly, such matters are handled much better on Postcapia.
Wall Street Journal article on regulation
Word count: 951
In my posting on the SEC, I pointed out that the agency fell down on the job during the financial crisis. The Wall Street Journal article indicates that this was not an exception. Regulatory agencies are destined to fail to begin with.
Snapshots of the Orient
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A few scattered impressions from a recent trip to the Orient.
Stelzer’s Travels, Installment 6
Word count: 4130
Our hero undergoes orientation and picnics with a friend.
Governance Redefined, Part I
Word count: 3839
Perhaps I have been unduly critical of our public servants. Certainly there are among them a number of energetic, intelligent, trustworthy, altruistic members of Congress. Does not that alter the negative portrait of the institution that I have painted? Not at all. Even if we filled every seat in Congress with the likes of these dedicated legislators, it would still be prevented from functioning properly by a number of structural problems that beset all representative democracies.
Governance Redefined, Part II
Word count: 2069
At first thought, there would seem to be little resemblance between the human body and the pompous halls of government, but functionally the two have much in common do they not?…In short, both our body and our government strive to optimally enlist human intelligence in the execution of physical tasks.
Governance Redefined, Part III
Word count: 2551
We are looking at the Autonoment, Postcapia’s control center, or, for those who wish to be reminded of its biological association, its hypothalamus. In a way, the latter name is the more descriptive. Like the hypothalamus, the facility not only passively outputs statistics, but uses them to automatically generate a constant flow of instructions designed to maintain the indices within their preset parameters.
Governance Redefined, Part IV
Word count: 3113
Postcapians start with the notion that there is no single “will of the people” as such. Rather there are as many “wills of the people” as there are people. To this end, they believe any individual is entitled to propose a new law or amend an old one by applying to the Volitionment.
Addenda to “Governance Redefined”
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A few after words that I thought might contribute to the piece.