Congress Gets A Grade

There are many reasons to believe that people are the same everywhere with similar hopes and dreams. We just want to be left alone to live our lives in peace.

We are once again awash with young radicals who believe passionately in their issue. So passionately that they are willing to do anything to achieve their goals.

When we delegate to politicians our obligations as citizens, we are at the mercy of our politicians faithfully executing our wishes.

I'd argue that the single greatest problem in government is lack of accountability: we look only to the desirability of the policy objective and not to how well our policies achieve the intended result.

It wasn't until we moved to Switzerland and lived there a spell that the upside of knowing where people are became clearer.