Wednesday, June 29, 2016

The Brexit Vote - Get a Grip!

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If you read the newspapers, even The New York Times , and listened to the media in the first few days after the Brexit vote, you would have...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Incompetent Response by Police in Orlando?

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At 2 am, the gunman started shooting in an outdoor area.  At some point not too long thereafter, the timing has not been indicated, the uni...
Friday, June 17, 2016

We Can't Change People, But We Can Control Access to Guns

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Why is gun control essential?  Because people are people; many suffer and lash out, some become violent. We can't control people's ...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

White Working Class - The Republican Base?

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While reading a recent New Yorker , I came upon a sentence that made me stop in disbelief.  “The base of the [Republican] Party, the middle...
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...