Showing posts with label elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elections. Show all posts
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Is Character No Longer a Practical Requirement for Public Office?

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Elections in the United States have always been fraught with much emotion. And in the early days of the country there were plenty of shenani...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

”They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President.”

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Those words, spoken by Hillary Clinton when she was informed that she had lost the election, as recently reported in The New York Times...
Friday, February 3, 2017

The Importance of Separation of Church and State

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The founders of the United States were deeply religious.   But they were not narrow-minded or bigoted in their religious thought.   They we...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Rescuing American Democracy

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A healthy democracy depends on a large percentage of the electorate voting and on the voting outcome being the result of a debate on issues...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Our Political System Has Failed Us

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The health of our democracy depends on three components, among others.   The first is an informed electorate which has the responsibility o...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

We Must Reform Our Election System

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We have just witnessed the most obscene election in American history.   Obscene in the sense that $2.6 billion was spent on the presidentia...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Pastors want to have their cake and eat it too

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The New York Times has reported that there is a movement afoot by evangelical and other pastors to flout the IRS rule that prohibits chu...