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

  • Republicans Seek to Fool the People

    Republicans are out to prove that indeed you can fool some of the people all of the time. Republicans say they are out to cut the deficit. Now, all studies on cutting the deficit have said a combination of spending cuts … across all areas, including defense and entitlements … and tax increases will be…

  • Keeping Egypt from Becoming Another Iran

    Once again, American foreign policy finds itself behind the curve of events, supporting the status quo while urging reform, supporting a repressive establishment against the interests of the people. American foreign policy has always been pragmatic, and indeed, it must be. At its core, however, our foreign policy should be consistent with the principles this…

  • The Need for a Truth in Politics Law: De-frauding American Politics

    “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” With those words, an Army lawyer took Senator Joe McCarthy to task and helped end McCarthy’s destructive un-American witch-hunt. The time has come to say the same to the Rush Limbaughs and Sarah Palins of the chattering class and stop their vile perversion of our…

  • Removing Election Supervision in the States from Partisan Politics

    In 2000, Katherine Harris was both the Chair of George Bush’s campaign in Florida and as Florida’s Secretary of State, the person responsible for supervising the election process and insuring its integrity.  Likewise in 2004, J. Kenneth Blackwell was both Chair of George Bush’s campaign in Ohio and that state’s Secretary of State.  The conflict…