Fitz File

            One of the platforms for the incoming House Democrats, now empowered with a majority in the chamber, is a ‘Green New Deal’. Harkening back to FDR and his New Deal, this plan would put a focus on educating our work force, heavy investment in green tech, and a federal job guarantee, among other things. While I have not done an enormous amount of research on the details of the plan, I cannot help but think about the rebukes surely to come. In the age of Trump and Twitter, it is important to have a set group of quick, marketable talking points that a voter can easily grasp. This is one of the reasons why I always say Democrats win debates, Republicans win elections: they always have an easily digestible message that Dems don’t. But, not heeding my own advice, I want to take on two common talking points that conservatives claim will kill jobs: environmental regulation and wage increases.    ...

A tool is something that is used to carry out a particular function, and some are more useful than others. Sometimes we find that the secondary uses of tools turn out to have more complicated consequences than we first imagined. The tool that I want to address today is one of interconnected wires, computers, and servers which allow for the near instantaneous transfer of information: the internet. While there are many different places the internet essentially ‘started’, it all predicated on the same idea: that the faster age required a faster way to transfer information from one location to another. Whether through the Department of Defense and DARPA , or AL Gore’s initial funding through the High Performance Computing Act , what we have today has dramatically shifted the way we exist as a species. And like the tools of the past, there are secondary results that we must address and get used to. Today I want to talk about the three worst things about the internet and their results. An...

                        Former FBI Director James Comey released his book a few months ago detailing his interactions with Donald Trump and his own philosophies on moral leadership. A Higher Loyalty describes just that, an understanding of the higher callings of truth and morality that sometimes drive a person to break norms or loyalties with their superiors. Comey stresses this by reminding the reader “the higher loyalty is to lasting values, most important the truth.” The release was predated by rounds of TV, Radio, and newspaper interviews where he expanded on the revelations in the book and his opinions surrounding the decisions he made as Director. Although you can only give so much new information after your 20th   interview, one point really struck me, that he did not believe President Trump should be forcably removed from office. Expressing what I think is an impressive prospective of...

  This is a blog about my opinions and ideas, I usually don’t get into why things are the way they are, it gets a little too into speculation for my taste. But for this post we are going to do exactly that: speculate. Today the New York Times ran a story  about the fraying relationship between the Trump Administration and the Special Counsel headed by Robert Mueller. In the past few weeks the Republican party has walked back its initial almost universal praise of Robert Mueller, and denouncing the investigation in general. “ Not looking good, it’s not looking good — it’s quite sad to see that, my people were very upset about it” said Donald Trump in typical meandering fashion. It has been pretty amazing to see the decent of opinion since the investigation begun handing out subpoenas. But I think this sudden effort by the right to discredit the man whose honor was ‘beyond doubt’ is simply due to calling the Trump family’s bluff. There has been two collection...