Not long ago I had the pleasure of having Dr. Harold Black from the University of Tennessee on the radio show I co-host, Car Concerns. Dr. Black is an expert on the Fed (the Federal Reserve Banking System). There’s a controversy about whether or not the Fed should be audited. Dr. Black has an excellent solution. Read it at his Blog.

http://haroldblack.blogspot.com/2009/08/audit-fed.html

Which reminds me I need to re-schedule the good professor back onto the show sometime soon.

I’m going to be traveling over the Labor Day weekend and I’m not sure of my ability to get the Ezine out on time, so please bear with me if there’s a delay.

If you’re reading this title without reading the articles leading up to it, then you may get the wrong impression. You’re probably thinking "More competition in politics? Are you crazy? The problem we have today is too much competition and too little cooperation. Shouldn’t we be talking about more cooperation?"

The answer is more cooperation would be delightful. My contention is to achieve more cooperation we need a different kind of competition in politics. We need a kind of competition for establishing priorities and consensus. The system we have today will never give us that sort of competition. We need, therefore, a new system.

We need a new system that will do for politics what thermal sights did for the battlefield.

Darkness in warfare is a friend to those with the technology to exploit it and an enemy to those without the technology. Thermal sights on our Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems made darkness our friend in two important ways. First, the sights were passive. That is, unlike earlier technologies, the technology did not provide a signature pointing back to the user and exposing the user as a target themselves. Second, thermal sights enabled us to see in the dark when our adversaries couldn’t see us. The heat absorbed by armored vehicles made them show up on thermal sights as a white silhouette on a black background. Imagine being able to precisely see, engage and destroy a target in the dark at a mile or more away. No longer can darkness alone be used to hide.

In one sense, this debate we’re having over health care/insurance reform provides its own version of thermal sights. We’re able to . . .

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