Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

I'll be 74 years old next month, and in all that time I've never seen Congress in such a mess. Neither party has leadership worthy o...

If the rolling catastrophe of Der Furor's presidency has taught us anything, it's that the authors of the Constitution severely unde...

The Preamble to the Constitution is one of the most famous and frequently cited written works of American history. In case you need a refres...

I wrote the original version of this post almost three years ago (June 27, 2022), and today seems like an appropriate time for a revisit and...

I don't know about you, but I'm really sick of hearing all the noisy, evidence-free whining about election fraud. So far, the only e...

There have been a lot of bizarre political theories advanced in the course of our national history, but two of the most bizarre and - in my ...

As I noted in my post last Wednesday , we have a problem with our elected officials in this country. You're shocked, I know. But the pro...

The Preamble to the Constitution is one of our most famous and frequently cited pieces of American history. In case you need a refresher (an...

The 55 representatives - all of them male, all white and all privileged members of their society - who attended  the Constitutional Conventi...

Let us begin, Dear Readers, with these stirring words from the preamble to the  Republican Platform 2016 - "We believe the Constitu...

I read an interesting article by Mike DeBonis in the Washington Post last Friday - House Speaker Torn Between Principles, Duty to His Party...

I had a frightening thought while I was in the bathroom the other day*. In this crazy time in American history, a lot of people are espou...

I got into a bit of a testy discussion on Facebook a few days ago that I think is worth writing a little about. In response to a comment m...