The Fortnightly Delightfully Brief, Pithy And Wholly Idiosyncratic Newsletter - April 15, 2012, Volume 1, Edition 7 by John A. C. Cartner on 4/25/2012 In This Issue: • The Banana Republic • The Tax Dance • Step Right Up! • Urgings Excerpt from "The Banana Repulic" Delightfully Brief If you are American, April 15 is the annual income tax day. In...more
Two tides are turning by John A. C. Cartner on 8/10/2011 Maybe two tides are turning. Piracy seem to be declining — depending on the scale one uses for calculating. One would be fatuous to think armed guards are responsible simply because another tide is turning. Some flag...more
Believers try to push TWIC through Congress by John A. C. Cartner on 6/30/2011 The US citizenry rejects a national identity credential. Congress tried to sneak one by as the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, managed by the Transportation Security Administration. Seafarers in the US are...more
Section 1, Clause 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship in a State based on Residence by Dan Goodman on 12/25/2010 Section 1, Clause 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America states: ”All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of...more
Section 1, Clause 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment modified Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States,... by Dan Goodman on 11/30/2010 A citizen of a State, under Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America, is now also a citizen of the several States. Such citizen is recognized under international law as a...more