Preserving American Values
Our nation stands under attack … not from without but from within. American values, our politics, and our culture have been corrupted.
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Let me start by saying that gun control is not about taking away your rights to hunt or defend your family. This is not about in any way infringing on your legitimate rights to own guns and use them. What this is solely about is trying to stop the epidemic of gun violence against innocent…
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Over the past 30 years, we have been witnessing the slow demise of the American Republic. I don’t mean that the United States will cease to exist, or that we will be conquered by some external power. What I mean is that the principles on which this nation was founded and the philosophy that fostered the continued…
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Our democracy and the right of free speech is based on the value the founding fathers placed on differing opinions. It is by the airing of differing opinions that people are either persuaded or not, or a compromise is found which while not giving either side everything it wanted provides a way for each side to feel…
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The cornerstone of our democracy, of our constitution and its Bill of Rights, is the principle stated in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal and are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness … That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among…
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We have become so accustomed to the extreme polarization of our country that began in earnest during Clinton’s second term and has gone off the deep end during the past few years with the creation and ascendency of the Republican Tea Party movement, that it’s hard to remember that there was a time not that…
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As we celebrate this July 4th, the state of our republic is troubled. Two core principles of American democracy are under attack … the role of government and the democratic process. And the attack is cynically being waged under the banner of protecting our system and our rights from the power of government. As we…
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Another example of the failure of American-style capitalism appeared recently in a New York Times report. There is a generic drug, transexamic acid, which was shown in a large multi-country trial in 2010 to save the lives of hemorrhaging trauma patients by slowing their bleeding. The British and American armies began using the drug immediately…
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I think that if someone believes in the Bible as God’s word and thus infallible, then that pereson needs to treat everything in the Bible in the same manner, following all of His instructions. You can’t pick and choose which rules you want to follow and which ones you deem outmoded or not appropriate for…
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At least since the time of Christ, there has been some degree of moral opprobrium in Western culture against making money solely from the use of money. First he drove the money-changers from the temple (as well as other businesses, but the image remains a classic) and later he spoke against lending money at interest.…
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Carl Sandburg wrote a poem expressing the public’s negative attitude towards lawyers that has the arresting line, “Why does the hearse horse snicker hauling a lawyer away?” The poem was presented to us as first-year law school students at the University of Chicago as a reminder that we should be compassionate in our law practice,…
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