Author: Burt Janz

Janz: Has SCOTUS Lost Relevance, Lost Power, or Lost the Faith of the People?

July 9, 2025June 2, 2025 Burt Janz

The Supreme Court of the United States exists as the last refuge, the last court of review, the last place where the Constitution of the United States, and only the Constitution of the United States, should determine how a brief is resolved. One would hope that the Justices could put aside their personal biases and … Read more

The Constitution is silent on “preemptive pardons”

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 Burt Janz

The Constitution of the United States, Article 2 Section 2, states “The President…shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States.” Let’s analyze this for a moment. In this case, an “Offense” is either a misdemeanor or a felony that has a basis in federal law. A presidential pardon can … Read more

The Costs To “Save The Planet”

January 14, 2025 Burt Janz

And now comes the last two stages of an avoidable political catastrophe: the “search for the guilty parties” and “the reward of non-contributors.” (Adopted from the six stages of an engineering project – it’s on the web.) We don’t know how the fires started. It could have been lightning: it’s been dry in California lately. … Read more

The Problem Isn’t H1B…

December 29, 2024 Burt Janz

I have been a high-tech worker since I taught myself programming back in the 1970’s after building a computer kit in the Navy. At that time, I was an electronics technician, maintaining and repairing communications and radar systems aboard ship. After reading articles in magazines about “microcomputers”, I decided to purchase one and see what … Read more

We Need an American Oidashibeya

November 10, 2024 Burt Janz

In Japan, lifetime employment is almost a given. Employees are protected by law and custom, so a wide scale RIF rarely happens. The company does not want to incur embarrassment or admit that they have excess personnel, which could mean unnecessary expenses that reduce profitability and thus affect the company’s stock price. Japan has a … Read more

Not Deportation: Call It “Eviction”

November 9, 2024 Burt Janz

As several commenters here and in other blogs have noted, a problem situation only exists if you continue to feed it. It is time to stop feeding it. Nonviolent deportation… um, eviction… is possible. All it takes is a reversal of the federal policies that “invited” millions of people to illegally enter the US. The … Read more

Crack asphault band aid original Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash

Are We Really Under Threat?

October 22, 2024 Burt Janz

There have been innumerable editorials in various publications and opinion show broadcasts about a possible “civil war”. These comments have been made by both sides in reference to the other side, and are supposed to reflect a possible reaction to the election of either candidate. I find this rhetoric to be misleading and somewhat horrifying, … Read more

Ignore The Polls — Concentrate On Truth

September 11, 2024 Burt Janz

Lots of articles about polls, who’s ahead, whose behind, which groups, which areas, which states are on whose side. The polls change almost daily, based on who is asking the questions and how they’re phrased. And the polls are “samples”, usually no more than a couple of thousand people in a country where over 200 … Read more

Has America “Bottomed Out”?

July 2, 2024July 2, 2024 Burt Janz

I remember reading the columns and editorials of several conservative and Republican pundits who were hoping that Trump would lose in 2020. They based their hopes on hatred of Trump’s personality and his disregard for “the norms of Presidential behavior.” They called themselves “NeverTrumpers” and were proud of it.

Context is… Nothing.

January 3, 2024January 1, 2024 Burt Janz

The current in-vogue spin-room phrase is “context is everything.” That phrase is used to provide an excuse for every unethical action, from teachers who are caught reading pornography to grade-school children, to politicians who vote to support “gender-affirming” surgery without their parent’s permission or knowledge.

Academic Fraud is Now APPROVED at Harvard

December 12, 2023 Burt Janz

Here’s what we know so far: Harvard President Claudine Gay has been accused of plagiarism by copying the work of others, inserting it into her Ph.D. thesis, and not acknowledging it.

Uman Brain Original Photo by Fakurian Design on Unsplash

It Ain’t AI if it Don’t Learn.

November 23, 2023 Burt Janz

You read that right: you can’t call it Artificial Intelligence if it doesn’t fully imitate Human Intelligence. I used to teach this stuff at a local college in their 400-level computer science curriculum. The book was Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. It’s considered the book to teach first-level concepts … Read more

From the Halls of…

November 16, 2023 Burt Janz

Ya gotta wonder why there are so many Americans siding with Muslim extremists and why the Biden administration is deeply bowing both to them and massive numbers of Palestinian “supporters” here in the US.

Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS – there IS a common factor

October 16, 2023 Burt Janz

Let’s think about the attacks in Israel for a moment. If we look around, we see that it isn’t just Israel that’s being attacked. Have we forgotten about “no-go zones” in France, Germany, England, and other European cities? Or the surge in Muslim attacks in Algeria, Mali, Tunisia, et al? Or the longstanding hatred and internecine wars in the Middle East that do not involve Israel?

Israel Israeli Flag Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash

Stand Your Ground, Israel

October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 Burt Janz

Before beginning, this needs to be said: the reasons Hamas has control of Palestinian areas are that it has terrorized Palestinians into voting for it in “fair elections,” and it has been “educating” children into a deep hatred of Israel from the time they were born.

college lecture hall seats choices original photo unsplash

How To Fix the “Student Loan” Problem

July 31, 2023 Burt Janz

One only needs to check the news occasionally to know that there is at least a half-trillion dollars of noncollectable student loan debt out there. Those loans, a huge percentage of them being owed to non-government entities, may never be fully repaid.

Yes, We NEED to Teach Cursive Writing

May 26, 2023May 25, 2023 Burt Janz

There’s something at stake in education that most people are ignoring. Schools are drifting away (sometimes running away) from teaching cursive writing. All sorts of excuses have been given: “It’s old.” “It’s hard to teach.” “We don’t need it any more.”

Status Quo by Charlie Wollborg at Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Welcome to (blue) New Hampshire

November 11, 2022 Burt Janz

So, the 2022 elections are over, and NH decided that it had no intention of bringing about a change in political direction in Washington, DC.

When Life Imitates Art

April 7, 2022 Burt Janz

I’m not one to compare a movie to life, but I remember one movie that seemed to foreshadow what we’re seeing today. The story is about a man who is accused of a crime without knowing what crime he has been accused of committing.

Is Canada’s Government Still Legitimate?

February 13, 2022 Burt Janz

In all the Canadian government’s furor over the truck driver protest, one event is missing: any reports of clear-cut violence committed by the truck drivers or their supporters. I have been scouring American, Canadian, and international news sites to find a verified report – any report – of a Canadian truck driver who has physically attacked anyone else.