Showing posts with label American culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American culture. Show all posts
Friday, August 9, 2019

The 2020 Election Is about the Survival of American Democracy, of Historic American Values

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The title of this piece may strike the reader as over the top, but it really isn’t.   Because it isn’t about whether the form of democr...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Sex - Misused and Abused - A Different Perspective

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The reader might well ask, what does sex have to do with preserving American values?   Well, for one thing, as we know from the #MeToo ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

New Name - Same Mission

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I suddenly have become aware, duh!, that the name I originally created for this blog, Preserving American Greatness, is not really appropri...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Our Culture Is the Serpent in the Garden of Eden

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As told in Genesis, in the paradise that God created, man and woman were naked, but they were not embarrassed by their nakedness and they we...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

When Ego Drives Politics, Can There Be Any Hope?

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We can rant all we want about the insufferable and destructive attitude and policies of the Tea Party and its fellow travelers, but truth b...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Strengthening America by Changing from a Consumer Economy to a Nation-Building Economy

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While our culture of consumerism has been a boon to corporate America, it has been bad for our citizens, bad for our economy and bad for ...
Friday, March 11, 2011

American Exceptionalism, Bullying and Mean Girls – An Excess of Self-Esteem Or Just the Opposite

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As much as I respect and admire David Brooks, he got it wrong this time.  In his March 10 op-ed piece, “The Modesty Manifesto,” he notes ...