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

  • Trump Is Lying to His Base About His Infrastructure Program

    One of the main things motivating Trump’s election win was his attention to the needs of the middle class worker who was either unemployed, underemployed, or whose wages have stagnated for the past 40 years.  He promised them jobs.  During the campaign there were two main avenues through which he stated he was going to meet…

  • Trump Is Lying to His Base About His Infrastructure Program

    One of the main things motivating Trump’s election win was his attention to the needs of the middle class worker who was either unemployed, underemployed, or whose wages have stagnated for the past 40 years.  He promised them jobs.  During the campaign there were two main avenues through which he stated he was going to meet…

  • Trump’s Simplistic Parochialism

    It’s one thing to say, “America First.”  It’s another to be simplistic in its application and have no understanding of what that phrase really means. “America First” raises two issues regarding Trump’s action of taking the U.S. out of the Paris climate accords.  The first is, even assuming for argument’s sake that our participating in the…

  • What Does the Democratic Party Stand For?

    If I see another article saying that Democrats have got to find a message to win back Congress and the White House, rather than just being anti-Trump, I’m going to scream. Today in The New York Times and in a recent New Yorker, the call was for Democratic candidates with “the ability to articulate what…

  • Trumpgate 2 – The Firing of FBI Director Comey

    Something smells about the firing of FBI Director Comey.  If you look at the sequence of events, the facts do not seem to support the reason given for the firing, but instead more strongly argue that it was done to stop or influence the FBI investigation into Trump campaign officials’ contacts with Russians regarding Russia’s attempt…

  • How Democrats Should Talk About Abortion

    As Democrats engage in special elections and prepare for the 2018 midterms, it is vital that they change the way they address the abortion issue. This post is not about changing Democrats’ unwavering support of Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose. What this post is about is how Democrats discuss this controversial…

  • So They Want Class Warfare? Let’s Have It Then

    Major corporations and financial institutions, and the 1% behind them, have been waging class warfare against the average person for years. They act in total disregard for the common good and have perverted our democracy into government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. President Eisenhower’s prescient warning against the power of the military/industrial complex…

  • The Ethical Bankruptcy of House Republicans

    Any objective observer of the known interaction between Russian officials and Trump campaign officials and allies during the campaign … not the transition … would say that at a minimum it creates the appearance of if not collusion, that is some agreement or understanding, then an effort on the part of the Trump campaign to…

  • So You Want to Be Rid of Government Regulation?

    Businessmen grouse about the burden of government regulations and paperwork.   They don’t want “pesky” inspectors snooping around.  The New York Times recently reported that small business owners are happy that Trump will free them from these burdens.   Investors are clearly cheered by the prospect of lower corporate taxes and less regulation.   But does this put the public at risk? …

  • Where Is Trumpgate’s Howard Dean?

    Here are the basic facts as we know them at this time.   1.  The Russian government, either directly or through surrogates, made numerous efforts to degrade Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the public and so swing the election to Donald Trump.  These efforts included not just the hacking and release of DNC emails, but…