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

  • What Will Happen When Trump’s Defeat Becomes Final?

    During the election, there were times when I shuddered in fear.   I read of roving gangs, for that’s what they were, of Trump supporters in cars and trucks stopping traffic on the Garden State Parkway, the Mario Cuomo bridge over the Hudson, various highways crisscrossing the New York City region, and trying to force a Biden-Harris…

  • Invoke the 25th Amendment

    If Vice President Pence and the Cabinet were men and not puppets, if they had any ethics or commitment to American democracy, they would invoke the 25th Amendment, Section 4, and free our country from President Trump.   Trump clearly is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”  The peaceful transfer of power being one…

  • The Shamelessness of Republicans Knows No Bounds

    The election is over.   Putting aside the recount in Georgia and the undecided status of North Carolina, and for some media outlets, Arizona, Biden clearly has won the election.   Even if Trump ended up winning all the remaining states, which he won’t, Biden still wins.   And the margin of victory in the swing states is such that whatever…

  • Making America Great Again? Trump Fails His Own Test

    We of course are familiar with the Trump slogan and the red MAGA caps. Trump certainly claims that he has. But has anyone in print or otherwise bothered to systematically ask the question, “Has Trump made America great again?” Not to my knowledge. And so that is what this post will assess. In doing so,…

  • In Trump We Trust

    It has been apparent for most of Trump’s presidency that regardless what he does or says, regardless how outrageous, how unprofessional, regardless whether he is fact-checked and shown to have lied, and certainly regardless what the mainstream (non-conservative) media say, Trump’s core base of support believes him, and Congressional Republicans either aggressively support him or…

  • The Light at the End of the Pandemic Tunnel is an Illusion

    As the percentage increase in new cases and deaths starts to decrease in some cities, I like many people have been heartened and have seen the numbers as an indication of the light at the end of the tunnel. But today I realized why that is probably an illusion. I live in an area of…

  • Even Now Trump Doesn’t Get The Pandemic

    President Trump still doesn’t get it.  To contain the pandemic we must be ahead of the epidemic, not behind it. Unfortunately, from the start, Trump has been behind.  First he belittled the threat and did nothing.  During the month before he restricted travel, 380,000 Chinese entered the country with no screening, many unwittingly bringing the virus with them.…

  • Trump’s Responsibility for U.S. Exposure to the Pandemic

    Yes, Trump is responsible.  How has Trump failed each and every one of us, just as regards the coronavirus pandemic? Let me count the ways. Recently, The New York Times reported that some U.S. scientists are saying that even regular masks can be helpful because some protection is better than none. A  lead Chinese scientist has said that…

  • Roger Stone’s Sentencing Smile

    There was a very disturbing and creepy photo in the paper today of Roger Stone, his wife, and another woman in his party arriving at the courthouse for his sentencing. They are all smiling! Like they were going to a party. And why were they smiling?  Because they knew that one way or another, he will not…

  • Trump’s Iran Folly

    While Trump’s careless action in ordering the murder of General Suleimani was not an impeachable offense, it is certainly yet one more example of why he is unfit for the office of President  and why he is a danger to our country. The issue here is why did Trump order this targeting killing?  Why now?  Suleimani has been…