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Category Archives: Politics
What Ceiling?
As I write this it is May of 2023. A Democrat is president of the United States and the Republican Party has recently gained a narrow majority in the House of Representatives. Unsurprisingly, the odd situation called the debt ceiling … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged 14th Amendment, Biden, congress, constitution, debt, debt ceiling, deficit, Obama, Reagan, sequestration, treasury
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Executive Risk
In the United States a great deal of the stability of the government is credited to what is commonly referred to as the balance of powers, the system in which each one of the three major functional divisions can put … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged balance of powers, Biden, bureaucracy, deep state, executive, judicial, legislative, Nixon, president, Reagan, Roosevelt, sedition act, signing statement, Trump, vote
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Poverty Memes
In the United States we are conflicted about poverty. When referring to poor people there are two over-generalizations that we use. On one side we have what might be called the concept of the “noble poor” such as the hero-protagonists … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged family, Great Society, New Deal, poverty, TANF
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CEO Government
In recent decades it has been common for political pundits and some candidates for office to denigrate the very title “politician” and to promote the idea that what the country needs is to populate our government with non-politicians. In truth, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Bloomberg, business, CEO, government, Hrding, politician, politics, president, Schwarzenegger, Trump, Ventura
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Supreme Ego
In June this year the Supreme Court vacated Roe v. Wade with an extreme, repetitive, and oddly argued opinion that will, despite assurances to the contrary, threaten a constellation of basic rights that have been built up over the past … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged abortion, Casey, Christian, Dobbs, Eisenstadt, Federalist, Griswold, LGBTQ, Loving, marriage, Obergefell, originalist, religion, Roe, Supreme Court
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Homeland Coup
In the United States we often comment unfavorably on the failures of democratic rule in other countries, the various insurrections and coups and corrupt elections, or the simple failures to transfer power from a losing administration to the winners of … Continue reading
The Lost War
It is September of 2021 and the United States has completed a final withdrawal from Afghanistan after spending almost twenty years attempting to create a new Afghani national government. The conflict had cost the lives of more than 3,500 soldiers … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged 9-11, 9/11, Afghanistan, foreign policy, Kabul, military, Taliban, Vietnam, war, War on terror, withdraw
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Just Say No?
As I write this the United States is in what appears to be the beginning of the third major surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, or maybe the fourth or fifth depending on how you define such things, with the number … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged Coronavirus, Covid, flu, individual, mask, pandemic, society, vaccine
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Diversity War
Recent Facebook meme: “America – My Ancestors Didn’t Travel 4,000 Miles for the Place to Be Overrun by Immigrants” It is a continual and stupefying realization to me that a large percentage of self-professed “patriots” in the United States oppose … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged American, Black, Chinese, code talkers, constitution, diversity, English, German, immigration, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, minorities, multicultural, multilingual, religion, war, World War II
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Freedom Two
Discussions about freedom in the 21st century tends to be about individual liberty, the type of freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. People have the right to speak freely, to protest, to openly practice their religion, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged Bill of Rights, collectivism, constitution, democracy, freedom, government, individualism, pandemic, progress, revolution
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