Saturday, May 21, 2016

What Drives Policy Decisions? - The Theory v The Reality

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Since the establishment of representative democracies, the role of government has been to promote and secure the safety and well-being of t...
Friday, April 29, 2016

God Is Not Dead, We Just Look for God in the Wrong Places

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There have been many pronouncements that God is dead.  The most famous perhaps is that of Friedrich Nietzsche, although it is widely misund...
Monday, April 11, 2016

The Cause of Urban Ghetto Violence Cannot Be Placed on a Failure of the Black Community

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There are many, especially Republicans, who criticize Blacks for the violence in the urban ghetto community, which mostly falls on themselv...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

When Is a Socialist Not a Socialist?

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When Barack Obama was running for President, the Republican Right branded him a “Socialist.”   They have also branded Obamacare as “sociali...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Understanding Why America Is No Longer, and Perhaps Can Never Be, As Great As It Was

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People either go on about how great America is, or they lament that America is not as great as it used to be.   In the first case, people t...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

The Warehousing of the Elderly - Cruel But Usual Punishment

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My mother is 106 and in a nursing home.   Around the time she turned 90, she went to live in a life-care community, first in independent li...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Back to the Future, But Not Too Far!

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We are a country that is obsessed with the future, with facilitating the next phase of our “progress.”   In the process, we have lost our c...