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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The propaganda theory of “the big lie” (developed by the Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels) is that if you tell a lie big enough often enough, people will begin to believe it, and the Republicans are masters of this tactic. The Republican Party has been selling the American public a bill of goods and unfortunately…
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As we celebrate this July 4th, the state of our republic is troubled. Two core principles of American democracy are under attack … the role of government and the democratic process. And the attack is cynically being waged under the banner of protecting our system and our rights from the power of government. As we…
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In current thinking, the issues presented by global warming concern using less fossil fuel and replacing that energy source with alternative”clean” energy. We are all familiar with the options that are on the table: solar power, wind power, ethanol, and nuclear power. Oh and I suppose for accuracy one should add clean coal. There is…
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After many years of ruining peoples lives as part of his anti-Communist witch hunt, Senator Joseph McCarthy finally went too far in 1954 when he gratuitously exposed a young lawyer with a great future as having for a short time in the past been a member of what McCarthy termed a “Communist front organization” as…
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In their desire to stop Mitt Romney from getting the Republican nomination, several of his opposing candidates have over the past week highlighted his role in Bain Capital, a private equity firm. They said Romney took over companies not to heal them and make them prosper but to gut them, fire employees, and eventually close…
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Once upon a time, there was a group of people, Congressmen and business owners, who didn’t want government to be regulating business. They wanted companies, no matter whether mining, oil exploration, or financial, to be able to do whatever they wanted to do. But they had a problem because years ago when business had that…
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Contrary to all the gnashing of teeth in Democratic quarters about the bad outlook for 2012, I think it can be argued that the outlook looks great … at least if the campaigns are run well. Republicans have been doing a good job of shooting themselves in the foot. They are so high on their…
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Why are Tea Party people so angry and fearful? Yes, right-wing demagogues aided by right-wing funders like the Koch brothers have stoked their fears and anger to a fever pitch, but why were they angry to begin with? Why are they and many in the broader population so receptive to the lies and fear-mongering? President…
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Man is by nature concerned solely with his and his family’s wellbeing. That is his biological imperative. Socially, however, man has evolved into being a member, a citizen, of a larger society. And so, from the most primitive communities to contemporary societies, that driving instinct has had to be reigned in for the greater good…
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As reported in USA Today, states across the country are increasing existing tolls on roads/bridges/tunnels as well as charging tolls for the first time on roads that have always been free. A toll is a tax and one that falls disproportionately on the middle class and poor. It is a very regressive tax. I understand…
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