A GOP House and a Democrat Senate

The Upshot's "Why Democrats Can't Win the House" brings up the point that urban areas in very red states are usually Democrat and progressive.   Since these urban areas have a high concentration of such voter that Congressional election wastes their votes while Senate votes are state wide and give the Senate more balance. This deadlock that this dynamic creates in Washington is a good.  Repeated below is this blog's June 25 2013 posting

Local Officials Lead Revolution to Make America

An essential element to Libertarianism is to bring decision making to as local a level as possible. I have blogged previously that the Amish are as about as an ideal example of a local self reliant community as there can be.

Watched PBS News Hour's interview with the authors of  The Metropolitan Revolution which appears to me to be an anti federalist love letter to local control and initiative.  If this is the result of Washington political deadlock and sequestration,  then I love it.

The Metropolitan Revolution