A recent Just the News Daily Poll found a plurality of respondents believe their elected representative should vote to reflect the views of his/her constituents, rather than voting for the policy the representative believes is best. There is approximately zero probability that all constituents share the same view. Perhaps those respondents imagined the politician reflecting […]

People talk and write about whether or not something is “art”. JOI finds this discussion pompous and tedious and therefore feels obliged to pompously and tediously jump into the discussion. In its traditional meaning, “art” is what people do or what people create. Everything anyone does is art. Some try to work around this by

It is tempting to turn to the news of the day for topics, but there are thousands of blogs doing that. This blog intentionally tries to avoid current news and concentrate on underlying long-term issues. But adequately researching and addressing such issues can take a while*, and readers tend to stop checking blogs that do

In the case, U.S. Term Limits vs. Thorton, the Supreme Court ruled that neither Congress nor states could impose eligibility requirements on members of Congress more strict than those specified in the Constitution, overturning Congressional term limits laws of 23 states. However, several polls have determined that over 70% of U.S. voters want congressional term

jOI is working on a plan for immigration reform and hopes to have something to post in a few weeks. Immigration has been a tremendous boon for most in this nation of descendants of immigrants. (Though Native Americans might very reasonably disagree.) From top scientists and entrepreneurs through janitors and fruit pickers, these people have

This post is an attempt to provide background to help you sort through the barrage of contradictory information circulating about masks for respiratory protection. First, some background on me. I studied the physics and practice of filtration in college in the contexts of air-pollution control, water purification, manufacturing, and industrial hygiene. (Yes, that was a

Are you old enough to remember pagers, those little boxes people used to wear on their hips back in the ’80s that buzzed or beeped when someone wanted to contact them? Pagers were made obsolete by cell phones. The Texas Public Policy Foundation reports that the City of Austin spends over $88,000 per year on

On the page, “Background for Taxes and Redistribution”, a section has been added to the end addressing constitutional issues related to the plan. In the “Taxes and Redistribution” plan, a detail was clarified in the Q&A for “Who would receive redistribution payments”. This page was also reformatted.

While scrolling through Instapundit, JOI was intrigued by a post by Ed Driscoll linking to an article in the American Conservative that quoted from an article by James Lindsey at New Discourses. Here are some quotes from the Lindsey article that I recommend reading in its entirety. Given the fact that they are the tool