Preserving American Values

Our nation stands under attack … not from without but from within. American values, our politics, and our culture have been corrupted.

Category: The Trump Factor

  • In 1954, during the Senate’s McCarthy Hearings, Joseph Welsh countered Senator McCarthy with the now-famous retort, “At long last, have you left no sense of decency, sir?” This confrontation is generally considered to have been the beginning of the end for Senator McCarthy and his infamous hearings. When will that time arrive when at least…

  • One of the main things motivating Trump’s election win was his attention to the needs of the middle class worker who was either unemployed, underemployed, or whose wages have stagnated for the past 40 years.  He promised them jobs.  During the campaign there were two main avenues through which he stated he was going to meet…

  • One of the main things motivating Trump’s election win was his attention to the needs of the middle class worker who was either unemployed, underemployed, or whose wages have stagnated for the past 40 years.  He promised them jobs.  During the campaign there were two main avenues through which he stated he was going to meet…

  • It’s one thing to say, “America First.”  It’s another to be simplistic in its application and have no understanding of what that phrase really means. “America First” raises two issues regarding Trump’s action of taking the U.S. out of the Paris climate accords.  The first is, even assuming for argument’s sake that our participating in the…

  • Something smells about the firing of FBI Director Comey.  If you look at the sequence of events, the facts do not seem to support the reason given for the firing, but instead more strongly argue that it was done to stop or influence the FBI investigation into Trump campaign officials’ contacts with Russians regarding Russia’s attempt…

  • The recent frantic efforts by President Trump to have the Republican-controlled House pass a health care measure that repeals Obamacare, regardless what the nature of that legislation was, reveals the absolute amorality of Donald Trump. After the initial Republican legislation didn’t proceed to a vote because it didn’t have enough support among Republicans, Trump was…

  • Here are the basic facts as we know them at this time.   1.  The Russian government, either directly or through surrogates, made numerous efforts to degrade Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the public and so swing the election to Donald Trump.  These efforts included not just the hacking and release of DNC emails, but…

  • Trump’s selection of David Friedman as U.S. Ambassador to Israel is his most dangerous to America’s national security interests to date. His other appointees may be against the very agencies they have been selected to head or cozy with the Russians, but the damage they can cause is of a limited nature and can mostly…

  • For the next 4 years, you will be carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.  All the suffering, all the conflicts, all the madness will come before you in some form or other for your leadership decision as President.  People and nations will look to you to make the right decisions for our country and…