We are rapidly approaching our 250th birthday as a republic. And the nation is in need of a tune-up.

With just a few tweaks of our Constitution, we can put the nation on a path that would allow it to go another 250 years. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, but we, the people, can add to it whenever we want.

No gas-run car can run incessantly without needing a tune-up at some point. We have reached that point.

The areas that need tweaking are very obvious. Pardon me, but we need to stop being fat, dumb, and lazy.

The problems have demonstrated that they cannot self-correct. The time and energy we spend on them and the cost to our democracy could be such that they could tear us down so that we would not be leaving future generations of Americans with the America we once had when we were young.

Back in the early part of the 20th Century, when Americans were not couch potatoes, and we were willing to get off our derrieres, we not only passed a constitutional amendment, but we passed a constitutional amendment revoking the one we passed less than 20 years prior. Amazing.

January 16 marks the 105th anniversary of the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution on Prohibition (of Alcohol). It was the inadvertent catalyst for creating organized crime and allowing the infamous Al Capone to earn a reported $100 million a year.

In 1933, the nation reversed itself, adopting the 21st Constitutional........

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