Archive for the ‘American Values’ Category
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On statues and statutes
Posted on June 30, 2020
It’s far easier to tear down statues than to enact statutes. Sam Rayburn, the former Speaker of the House, once said, “Any jackass can tear down a barn, but it...
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The Return of Normalcy
Posted on May 13, 2020
In his campaign for the White House, Warren G. Harding said, “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but...
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Fighting the government’s harmful overreaction to COVID-19
Posted on May 5, 2020
A cytokine storm is the immune system’s overreaction to a virus and is thought to be one of the major causes of death of COVID-19. The cytokines are the storm-troopers...
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Wake-up Calls
Posted on April 21, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has delivered several different wake-up calls to policymakers and voters alike. How we react to them as a society will determine our national fate for...
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Partisanship is alive
Posted on March 23, 2020
Partisanship is alive. Long live partisanship. The coronavirus hasn’t unified the country as well as many had hoped. I am ok with that. Senate Democrats objected to an economic stimulus...
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