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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Yesterday, I had two experiences that brought home a major problem of our culture … it’s inhumanity. If we think of this at all, we tend to think of this as a corporate problem – for example, the stories of insurance companies denying claims or corporations moving forward with toxic products that harm their employees…
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The reader might well ask, what does sex have to do with preserving American values? Well, for one thing, as we know from the #MeToo experience, the male craving for sex often impacts the independence and integrity of women. Their freedom from such abuse should certainly be an American value. But also regarding the male, when an…
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There is currently much discussion, at least among Democrats, about whether there is a need to change the health care system from one which is based on private insurers to one which is a single payer government system … Medicare For All. But what that would look like and how we get there is not…
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If the damage weren’t so devastating, one would say that it is ironic that the movement to protect human fetuses, that brands itself “pro-life” and sprang from the moral and religious reverence for human life of the Catholic Church and Evangelical branches of Christianity, is in fact an inhumane movement. The reader may well ask,…
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Progressives are pushing the Democratic Party to embrace a universal single-payer health care system, what is being called Medicare For All. But is that the best way to proceed for the American people? I am in favor of a universal single-payer system in the United States. Where every person is covered, where there are no deductibles, where…
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We all know what the “American dream” has been. As the phrase is generally used, it has meant the material benefits of freedom … upward mobility, financial success, home ownership. That hard work will pay off and that each successive generation will be better off. This dream is what drove the tens of millions of…
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The question is, should Governor Northam of Virginia resign because he possibly either put on blackface or a KKK robe for a picture that found its way into his medical school yearbook (which he first admitted and then denied), or because he now admits that he blacked his face as part of a Michael Jackson…
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Yesterday was my 75th birthday. Usually I treat my birthdays just like any other day, although a cause for some celebration. I have always felt good about birthdays, as opposed to the way many people feel. I’ve never felt myself “growing old” and fearing the future. But at 75 years, it does seem to warrant…
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These have been years that try men’s souls. Dysfunction and inhumanity have always been abroad to a greater or lesser extent. But these last two years under President Trump have been especially difficult. Yes, come January the Democrats will be in control of the House. But while that portends some policy changes that will be…
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Many people would look at the phrase “understanding rage” as an oxymoron. To them rage is irrational. It’s craziness. And because it’s not a rational state, it cannot be understood, that is, there is no rational explanation. It’s true that there is no reasoning with rage. The rational forces of democracy are not only helpless…
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