Can Americans See Only the Yin and Not the Yang?
The Yin and Yang of our ideological realities (c) Can Stock Photo / arkela Light and Dark. Good and Evil. What you are For and What you are Against. Yang and … Read More
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Cultural issues are concerned with our relations and duties to each other. They include questions on ethics, morality, and mores.
The Yin and Yang of our ideological realities (c) Can Stock Photo / arkela Light and Dark. Good and Evil. What you are For and What you are Against. Yang and … Read More
The first three progressive presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons / Pach Brothers , Wikimedia Commons / George Grantham Bain , and Wikimedia Commons / Harris … Read More
Italy’s Beppe Grillo, head of the Italian Five-Star Movement in 2012 Wikimedia Commons / Niccolò Caranti Last Sunday’s Italian constitutional referendum marks yet another step in the slow unraveling of … Read More
Sisyphus and his rock Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Titian(1490-1576), Prado Museum Sisyphus is a figure from out of ancient Greek mythology, the founder and king of the city Ephyra, … Read More
“For now we see through a glass darkly . . .”, Holy Bible, King James Version, 1 Corinthians 13:12 Flickr.com / David Singleton As history has shown us over and … Read More
Are you ready for your soul to be weighed? Morguefile.com / Southernfried This is not an an essay on how human values and ethics are irreconcilable with Reality. At least … Read More
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. This is what we must all do if we are to survive as a free nation! Wikimedia Commons / Andrew Horne The reactions by … Read More
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) campaigning for Hillary Clinton, October 2016. Warren is one of the leading forces in the Democratic Party. Wikimedia Commons / Tim Pierce Elizabeth Warren, one of … Read More
Anti-Trump riot in Portland, Oregon following President-elect Trump’s election Screenshot from a CNN broadcast To this very day, progressives are not just demonstrating to protest Donald Trump’s election, but rioting and … Read More
Percent of men, ages 25 to 54, who are not working and not looking for work versus year. New York Times/Bureau of Labor Statistics When a founding and respected member … Read More
Which is more immoral? Photo Credits: CNN.com and CNN.com You know the United States has fallen on very hard times when conversations about nominees … Read More
Screen Shot of James Comey swearing-in at House Judiciary Committee meeting on why he did not recommend seeking an indictment for Hillary Clinton on July 7, 2016. James Comey has sullied … Read More
The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin Wikimedia Commons/Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, Paris, France The most sacred words any human being can utter are “I believe …”, The more … Read More
The North Face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175. Wikimedia Commons/Robert on Flickr It has been fifteen years to the … Read More
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. The three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act 4, scene 1 Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Heinrich Füssli 1783 The Western World’s political … Read More
The Scandinavian Countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Image Credit: Wikitravel/Stefan Ertmann In the previous post Are European States More Socialist Than The US?, I noted that American progressives had … Read More
Garbage In, Garbage out: Who can bear the smell! Image Credit: Flickr.com/soundfromwayout Well, FBI Director James Comey finally came out and announced today the FBI would not recommend to the … Read More
The draft Declaration of Independence being presented to the Second Continental Congress by the five man drafting committee on June 28, 1776. The five men standing before the Chair are … Read More
Cover to the first edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. In a People’s Republic, some animals are more equal than others! Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Today I engaged a young … Read More
It’s good to talk! Photo Credit: FreeImages.com/Jon Wisbey One of the most important duties we have for our country and to … Read More
Contemplation of Justice Image Credit: Flickr.com/dbking American Exceptionalism is an ideology based on the concept we rule ourselves through our government representatives, and that government is strictly limited … Read More
The School of Athens, a place for the development of ideologies Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Raphael (1505) Many of the people with whom I have talked over my lifetime, if indeed not most, hated the … Read More
OMIGOD! Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee!! (c) Can Stock Photo Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, what is a principled … Read More
Happy Birthday, A Divided World! Freeimages.com Today is the one year anniversary of A Divided World! In the past year I have truly enjoyed writing the … Read More
Galileo’s trial for scientific heresy by the Roman Catholic Church Wikimedia Commons/Painting by Cristiano Banti (1857) (US-PD-Art) I am not the only one to notice the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of … Read More
Vietnamese boat people, 1984, rescued by the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/PH2 Phil Eggman, U.S. Navy The photo above shows an extreme example of … Read More
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France Wikimedia Commons/Diliff With the three recent jihadist attacks on Brussels and Paris, Europe has been given a wake-up notice … Read More
Gini Index World Map in 2014, income inequality by country according to World Bank Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/M Tracy Hunter One of progressives’ favorite conversations is about income inequality, particularly … Read More