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: The Trump Factor

  • Trump’s Desecration of the Flag

    Since Trump and his followers make such a show of honoring the flag, how can I say that he desecrates the flag? The answer comes from the Pledge of Allegiance itself, which clearly states the meaning of the flag.  Republicans recite the pledge at every gathering and many Trump supporters fly the flag outside their…

  • More Trump Lies, More Fabrication

    There is no end to the fake news that comes from Trump’s mouth or his social media.  Whether he knows he’s lying or whether it his alternate reality (see my post, “XXX”) it really makes no difference. This week, he had the audacity to say 1) the talks with the Iranians are going well, and…

  • Who Decides Whether America Goes to War?

    Because taking our country into war has the potential if not the likelihood, even in modern warfare, of costing the bodies and lives of American soldiers as well as disrupting the economy, this is an important question.  The Constitution is the guide to answering this question. The Constitution clearly states that Congress has the power…

  • Trump: The King of Fake

    Donald Trump has created his own Alice in Wonderland world, where everything is flipped on its head, where things are the opposite of what they in fact are. He has conquered by labeling things that present the truth as “fake,” whereas in fact he himself and what he presents as “truth” to his supporters is…

  • Trump’s Perversion of U.S. History

    In his Executive Order, “Restore Truth and Sanity to American History” Trump stated that there has been “a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”  He has among other things instructed the National Park Service and a variety of museums…

  • Trump’s Assault on Our Election System and How to Fix It

    I’m not talking about Trump’s refusal to concede the results of the 2020 election.  That’s a Trump issue, it has nothing to do with the problems of our election system.  But Trump’s recent call for Republicans to take over the election process, to “nationalize” elections, goes to the heart of this issue’s urgency,  As does…

  • Trump – Poster Child of a Megalomaniac

    There is no question that Trump is a megalomaniac. Look at the definition: “An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.”  Whether it’s relatively harmless actions like redecorating the White House with gold everywhere or attaching his name to every building and project he’s involved in, or his more problematic king-like assertion of control…

  • The Inhumanity of Trump and Its Impact on America

    I am a child of holocaust survivors, my parents having fled Germany at the last minute in 1939 before the war started, and so am well-versed in what life was like for Jews in Germany in the 30s under the Nazi regime. My father and other relatives were hunted by the Gestapo (secret police) and…

  • The Murder in Minneapolis and How it Impacts the Rights of All Americans

    Thomas Paine famously wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls,” when writing about the American Revolution.  One could say that every week of Trump’s second administration has been such a time for much of the country. One of the most important questions of the moment is: Was the ICE agent who shot Renee…

  • The Antisemitic Campaign Against Mamdani

    The campaign against Mamdani by some conservative Jewish leaders and others, calling him antisemitic, has just reached a new level with accusations of antisemitism from Israel.  From almost the beginning of his campaign, Mamdani has faced charges of antisemitism because he was critical of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and because he has…