The issue of taxpayer-lobbyists is problematic; if they're working for government and being paid with taxpayer dollars, how can one part of a representative government petition itself for a "redress of grievances" to another part of government?
The Victims of 9/11 Deserved Better
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the massacres of September 11th, 2001, brings with it a flood of memory, and regrets. The simple reality, visible at the time and brought into ever-sharper focus across each successive year, is that the enemy in Al Qaeda achieved its major strategic objects in its attack upon the United States of...