Principles versus Reality
This has been a difficult commentary to prepare. America has welcomed people of many different religions as visitors as well as citizens. Bu...
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Edifice of Trust Podcast
The Edifice of Trust is a podcast that provides discussion and analysis of today’s current events from the perspective of America’s Founding Principles. Based on Enlightenment philosophy as...
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Looking for Good News
My wife always complains that my commentaries are depressing because I only discuss the bad news out there. But there is good news out there...
Exploiting Exploitation
Greedy capitalists are not the only people exploiting workers and other so-called victims in the US. Political party platforms try to seduce...
Let's Get Real
Republicans and Democrats have been buying votes for decades with generous benefits and even more generous tax cuts – and now even the Democ...
Is This Really Socialism?
There are a lot of policies being promoted under the name of socialism by Democrats in the runup to this fall's mid-term elections (and espe...
Socialism Upended
Within two months of his election as president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez held a referendum for a constitutional assembly to change the basic...
Forever Negotiations
A few days ago President Trump announced a temporary pause in kinetic warfare against Iran in order to give diplomatic negotiations another...
American Suicide
For 250 years John Adams has been wrong about the imminent demise of American democracy. And while President Trump's vision of American grea...
There is no Deus Ex Machina
The campaign promises of politicians are similar to the theatrical plot device known as deus ex machina, something (in ancient Greek dramas...
Mother Nature's Revenge
About a million years ago, our prehistoric ancestors were reduced to barely thirteen hundred individuals, a so-called genetic bottleneck. If...
Gag Reflex
The candidates for the upcoming 2026 elections that are being chosen by the Republicans and Democrats (aka MAGA and DSA) are repellent to sa...
Old Time Religion
Many of the early colonists came to North America so that they could practice their interpretation of the Christian faith for which they wer...
The Next Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation was made up of millions of ordinary Americans that rose to the challenges of the Great Depression and the Second Wor...
So, Elon's a Trillionaire - Let's Tax the Hell Outta him
As the largest shareholder in the newly public company, SpaceX, Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire. And it is only a matter of...
The origin of MAGA Politics
Nicholas Wade, in his most recent book the Origin of Politics, tries to use evolution to justify why a nation state based on ethnicity, lang...
No Art in this Deal
Peace talks with Iran are ongoing but, seemingly, going nowhere. As Condoleezza Rice stated in a recent op-ed, no deal is better than a bed...
Rooting for the Underdog
Americans love to root for the underdog. But rooting for an underdog doesn't mean we want to tilt the field in the underdog's favor. We want...
Stolen Franchise
There is no big tent in the Republican Party. Only loyalty to President Trump and his agenda is acceptable. Everyone else must be purged and...
Sports Betting and Other Vices
Watching a golf tournament on Sunday afternoon has become a non-stop barrage of adverts for betting, announcers discussing of the odds for e...
Its not 1965 Anymore
The Supreme Court's decision to strike down minority-majority voting districts presumably required under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has b...