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Good, Extortion, and the Art of the Misdeal
Not everything in life is a deal. When an offer is made and the only real alternative to the dealer’s offer is death and destruction of everything that matters to you, the transaction is called extortion. Extortion, for clarification, is… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy and Whose War is This?
Bret Stephens is a conservative columnist for the New York Times and probably a lonely one too. He seems one of the few remaining conservatives who think, feel and strenuously process their way through the days events. I read him… Continue reading
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Good and America’s New Terrorists
This writer is not sure how one could describe the effects of quid pro quo death threats or threats to one’s family as anything other than terrifying. Perhaps it is because in the course of my career I lived with… Continue reading
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Good, Extremely Shallow or Rooted Radical: Americas Choice.
Both the left and the right of politics in this nation are a blend of ideological and strategic, but seem to avoid becoming radical. We currently have an administration, both ideological and strategic, that has shed nearly all the values… Continue reading
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Good and Move Over God, The War Department has This
One thing we should have learned by now is you can’t prevail in a war using bombs exclusively and those ‘boots on the ground’ will ultimately be worn by our young men and women and not the people who send… Continue reading
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Good, War Dependency, and the Warring Mind
Two world “leaders” dependent on war for personal legal reasons or bumping their poll numbers up have just started a war. There is no question these two public men should be cautious and very public about entering a war in… Continue reading
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Good, the Chain of Kingdoms, Sloth, and the Constitution
I want to be king of the world, but if not that, than maybe President/King of the United States. If not that, then perhaps Governor/king of a state in the United States. Well, . . maybe Mayor/king of a smaller… Continue reading
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Good and It’s the Economy and Yet, It Isn’t. Its Amnesia and more
A nation that can’t lift its gaze beyond the economy is doomed to be lost. Unregulated capitalism is a game of winners and losers. Unfortunately, we will never be able to fit in that straight jacket of simplistic logic and… Continue reading
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Good, the Work Force, and Big Lies
The calculus of the American work force is not what we are supposed to think. The meme constructed by the current administration is one of immigrant workers taking American jobs and American workers looking on in envy as their opportunities… Continue reading
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Good, Truth Carrying Grief, and the Atomized Society
History has thrust upon our generation an indescribably important task–to complete the process of democratization which our nation has too long developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect and emulation. How we deal with… Continue reading
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