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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July 4th … Independence Day … is fraught with symbolism. It is the beginning of American exceptionalism, the beginning of America taking its place on the world’s stage, the beginning of freedom and prosperity for Americans. It is a moment for us to pause, and so many years I write a post about July 4th. There is…
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The health of our democracy depends on three components, among others. The first is an informed electorate which has the responsibility of electing those who will both represent it and help lead the country. The second is leaders who both represent their constituencies and act for the greater good of the country. The third is an electorate and leaders…
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The newest scheme that the financial industry has devised to avoid transparency is something called a “deep pool.” Apparently these trading pools have popped up all over the place. According to the New York Times, on some recent days as much as 40% of trades occurred in such pools, which are totally unregulated and secret. This has given…
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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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We can rant all we want about the insufferable and destructive attitude and policies of the Tea Party and its fellow travelers, but truth be told, virtually all politicians are sorely lacking. A politician should be first and foremost a public servant … there should be no greater interest than to serve the interests of…
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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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We have just witnessed the most obscene election in American history. Obscene in the sense that $2.6 billion was spent on the presidential race. Obscene in that the Supreme Court’s decision that money = speech gives new meaning to the phrase, money talks. Obscene in that the Supreme Court’s decision that corporations are people entitled…
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Over the past 30-40 years, the Religious Right has gone from total noninvolvement with politics to total involvement to partial domination. As a general matter, and more specifically in recent years, they have endorsed capitalism and the concept that each person is responsible for himself, they have endorsed a limited role for government, and they have…
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Opening Statement: I want to be a president for all the people, whether rich or poor, Democrat or Republocan … not just the 54% that don’t receive any government benefits. I will not write off any American.Entitlements: Just a few weeks ago, Governor Romney, in a private gathering of donors, sounded very different from the…
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Whatever else one could say about Mitt Romney … that he was a flip-flopper, an opportunist, that there was no “there” there … one couldn’t say that he was a nasty man. One felt that he would do or say anything he had to to become president, but that he would stop short of being…
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