Political Student

Written by Dave Chase

In honor of National Day of Prayer, I thought I would give the top 5 reasons why school prayer simply should not be allowed. This post was inspired by some Tweets I have been reading demanding prayer in schools. By the way, a few of these also work for why we shouldn’t have anything even close to a National Day of Prayer but that is for another post another year.

Let’s first describe what we are talking about and what we are not talking about. We are talking about organized and school sponsored prayer. No one is saying if a student wants to say a Hail Mary before a test that he or she should not be allowed to. However, we are talking about organized school prayer even if it is voluntary.

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Written by Dave Chase

There is a joke making the rounds in the business and economic worlds that goes like this: If the US government can fire CEO’s of companies who took bailout money then China should be able to fire President Obama.

The punch line comes of course from the fact that China has loaned a huge amount of money to the United States over the past 10 years. In fact, they apparently have so much of our debt that people have begun to talk about how China should have a say in how the US is run.

So, with all of this concern over our debt, I felt like it was time to do a little post dispelling a few common assumptions about our debt. The first is who is the main holder of US debt.

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Written by Dave Chase

The Federalist system in place in the United States has worked well for the past 230 years. However, in the age of globalization, instant communications and supra national organizations, the Federal government must be granted far more power then the state governments.

I am certainly not a proponent of abolishing State governments and I firmly believe that there are certain issues that should be left to the States, however, there are an increasing number of issues that certain States have ignored or legislated unfairly on that lead me to believe that there are simply some issues that the States cannot handle.

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Written by Dave Chase

While I was waiting in line for the metro on Tuesday, after the inauguration, I had an interesting conversation with a man from Texas. Not to stereotype Texans in anyway, but it was a conversation about gun rights. I began my conversation with this man because he was wearing a shirt that said, “Texans for Obama.”

So, after some small talk he mentioned that his only fear is that Obama will push for national gun control “even though it’s [his] constitutional right to own a gun.”

I swear I was not looking for a fight but before I even thought about it,  I shot back, “well it’s not really your constitutional right.”

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Written by Dave Chase

I consider education in a tie with health care for the most important long term political issue. Certainly, economic, foreign and domestic crisis takes precedence to any issue but in terms of what this country needs to focus on when the world is not on fire, education and health care takes the prize.

Education is one of the few issues that I disagree strongly with most democrats on. Democrats are elected by teachers unions and as such they refuse to admit that they are a big part of the problem when it comes to public education.

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