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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People either go on about how great America is, or they lament that America is not as great as it used to be. In the first case, people typically ignore reality. In the second case, they often ignore fundamental factors. When people say that America is great, they are either referring to the strength of our military…
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For the last few decades, certainly since President Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork, the nomination and confirmation process of Supreme Court and lower Federal court justices has been political theater. It was not always so. Chief Justice Roberts stated in a recent talk reported in The New York Times that earlier in the 20th century “The Court was…
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In the recent Democratic presidential primary debate, the candidates trotted out programs that they would sponsor to address a variety of problems our nation is facing. But an article in the New York Times astutely noted that no one said anything, nor were they asked, about how they would get these programs through Congress given the current control…
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After Shell recently announced that they were ceasing all exploratory work in the Arctic, I received a flood of emails declaring “victory” from the various organizations who had been trying to pressure the Obama administration to not let Shell drill. This was as deceptive as Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” fiasco in the early days of the…
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Have you noticed how Republicans constantly base their positions on the Constitution? When was the last time you heard a Democrat/Liberal base his positions on the Constitution or other founding document like the Declaration of Independence (other than the right to free speech)? One major exception was the 2004 Democratic nominating convention when the Declaration…
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Most people think that under our tax system the wealthy pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than those with less income, with those with the lowest income paying the lowest rate. This is called a progressive tax system. The reasoning behind a progressive system is twofold: one philosophical, one practical. Philosophically, under our…
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The United States prides itself in being a technologically advanced country, a leader in the technology revolution, and yet our transportation system is archaic. It is based primarily on a mode of transportation … the car and truck … that was developed a century ago and that technologically has not progressed much in the intervening…
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The current crop of Republicans – a radical, rabidly conservative group – take as their jumping off point a very un-nuanced view of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. To them, rights, if not specifically qualified in those documents, are absolute. So whether it’s the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness in…
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A healthy democracy depends on a large percentage of the electorate voting and on the voting outcome being the result of a debate on issues and policies. Our democracy is far from healthy on both these fronts. (I know there are other problems, but those are not within the purview of this post. See, for example,…
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Two of the most important issues facing our country is how to improve the wages of workers (as opposed to management), who make up the bulk of our workforce and whose spending accounts for a large share of our economy, and significantly increase the number of living-wage jobs either by bringing them back to this…
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