It wasn’t that long ago that America’s leaders were responsible and honest people, acting according to an understanding of what it means to make this nation great. As shown at left, that meant, among other things, a tax schedule that …
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I remember attending a trade show at which a variety of new-age food items were being introduced. I ran across the vendor of a new orange soda that he marketed as “all-natural.” “How much actual orange is in that can …
Immediately after my first business meeting in Paris, I spent some time walking around the City of Lights, trying not to be too conspicuous as the dreaded American tourist. It wasn’t long before I came across a McDonalds, which, I …
Re: the meme here, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has said, “If we can explore colonizing Mars because we’ve ruined Earth, we can certainly fix Earth.” The man has a point here. What we need is the political will to put …
When George Bernard Shaw wrote these words, “false knowledge,” hadn’t yet become an entire industry. Now, there are “news” organizations that have convinced their viewers that the 2020 election was rigged, that COVID-19 was a government plot to cripple the …
I believe what the people are talking about in this meme is the top marginal income tax rates. Obviously, it would be good if there were no loopholes by which our top earners could avoid income tax, but what we …
I would love to cite evidence that we’re on the way to “living together as brothers” rather than “perishing together as fools,” but I struggle to find it. I see too much (and perhaps an irreversible amount of) greed, tribalism, …
I studied philosophy for a few years as a younger man, and I recall a graduate course on metaphysics, delivered by Henry B. Veatch (pictured), one of the most widely published and decorated American philosophers of his time (the mid/late …
The clever meme here depicts a harsh reality of life in the U.S. There are groups, heavily funded by billionaires, whose aims are to convince congress to dismantle all aspects of the federal government that serve the common American. I’m …
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FWIW, I agree with the author of the meme here. The reason most of us refrain from committing harmful acts isn’t that we think we’ll be rewarded by some sort of force that pervades the universe. Nor is our motive …
