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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Websites: www.westillholdthesetruths.weebly.com; www.preservingamericanvalues.com; www.thepracticalbuddhist.com. A graduate of Brown U. and U. of Chicago Law School, I’ve had a varied career as a legal aid lawyer, survey researcher, nonprofit executive, management consultant, composer, teacher, and author. I have authored 7 books on topics as varied as Buddhism, child rearing, and politics, the latter of which received a pre-publication endorsement from James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic. My Buddhist blog was selected as one of the top 50 Buddhist blogs on the web.

Category: Politics

  • Sen. Collins Tragic Error on the Kavanaugh Vote

    Part of the tragic error of Senator Collin’s thought process is that the issue and the hearing was not part of a criminal process concerning the guilt or innocence of Judge Kavanaugh. It was about whether he should become a Supreme Court Justice. Therefore the maxim “innocent until proven guilty” is not relevant. The fact…

  • A Call to the American People

    My fellow Americans.  Our democracy is under attack from within.  The well-being of the American people, the environment, and our historic values are at risk.   But we must do more than resist.  The American people must rally, touch their basic goodness, and be freed of feeling they have to fight for their lives alone.  This cancer impacts all Americans…

  • Why Judge Kavanaugh Is Not Qualified to Sit on the Supreme Court

    There is no question that Judge Kavanaugh has all the paper credentials one could ask for.  His education and years on the bench clearly make him qualified in that sense for his appointment. However he is not qualified in terms of the judicial temperament requisite of a judge, especially a justice of the Supreme Court.  The essence…

  • More Amorality of Donald Trump – Health Care

    I previously wrote two posts on actions that show that Donald Trump will do and say anything he feels he needs to in order to get what he wants.  He has no morality or ethics.  It’s all transactional.  The end definitely justifies the means for him. Today’s New York Times provided yet another example.  The Trump administration announced that they were…

  • “They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President”

    Those words, spoken by Hillary Clinton when she was informed that she had lost the election, as recently reported in The New York Times, speak volumes about what was wrong with Hillary as a presidential candidate. Who were this “they” that she referred to? The deplorable people? The NRA? No one kept her from being…

  • The Real Challenge for Democrats in the 2018 Election: Getting Non-voters to Vote

    If the Democrats are going to have a good change at winning the 2018 mid-term elections  in a decisive way … which is what is really needed … then we have to do more than convince disaffected Trump voters to vote Democratic.  That could be enough to change the balance of power in Congress, but it would…

  • The Dysfunction of the Gun Control Debate

    A few days ago, a father of one of the children killed in the Parkland school shooting voiced his emotion and rage at President Trump, but then said that he didn’t favor gun restrictions; instead he wanted the school to be made a safe place.  He said the battle over gun restrictions was for another time.…

  • Donald Trump Is Beholden to His Base

    What a travesty when the elected leader of our country shows no leadership.  Instead, his every action is determined by whether or how it will impact the support he receives from his core constituency. Now to be fair, every president keeps his base very much in mind when considering actions to take.  It would be unreasonable to…

  • Heal the Racial and Other Divisions within Us

    W. E. Du Bois, in his classic The Souls of Black Folk (1903), stated that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men.”  In the United States, that relationship and the resulting divisions between the groups has, despite all the civil rights laws…

  • Donald Trump – A Man Lacking Compassion and Understanding

    It is beyond distressing that the President, the elected leader of our country, continues to provide more examples from his own words and actions of his amorality.   In his rants against NFL players who bend the knee when the national anthem is played, he showed absolutely no understanding of the plight of most black Americans…