Regardless who we are or what we’re about, introspection or reflection is very important in each of our lives. It’s important because many of the thoughts that reside in our unconscious may represent bits and pieces of potentially significant unfinished business. Through introspection we can determine more clearly why we think as we do and what may eventually become significant in providing clarity and possibly truth or falsity in our ruminations. Since many of our thoughts are initiated in our unconscious,
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On July 15, 2014, Bill Chappell writing for WLRN, NPR website, wlrn.org, wrote a blog entitled: Israel Resumes Airstrikes On Gaza, As Cease-Fire Chance Slips Away.
Chappell reports: “After Hamas rejected a proposed cease-fire that would have ended eight days of fighting, Israel has resumed its airstrikes on Gaza.
“The development comes after Israel had agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal to stop hostilities. But leaders of Hamas didn’t back the plan,
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If you’ll recall, in my last blog I mentioned I was going to give a specific recommendation as to what we might do to put some “teeth” into the current request that has been made by Egypt to terminate hostilities currently existing between Israel and Hamas.
In order to understand my recommendation we must review what has happened since Egypt urged Israel and Hamas to immediately cease firing at one another.
As you’ll recall, on July 15,
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Though our government was formed using democratic principles, today, it’s run by the rich and powerful, not by the “common man,” as intended by our Founding Fathers. That’s because over the years the political parties have high jacked our political system and allowed the wealthy and powerful to seek high office and win; this all being done by requiring more and more monies to run for national political office, whether it be for a seat in Congress or becoming president of the United States.
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Writing for Ehrhardt/Associated Press, on June 11, 2014, Molly Ball, a staff writer covering national politics at The Atlantic, wrote a blog entitled Why Eric Cantor Lost and Lindsey Graham Won.
Ball explained why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost to “a little-known tea party challenger,” David Brat. In explaining why Cantor lost, Ball compared and contrasted the issues Graham ran on, to how Cantor handled his campaign.
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On my last blog, as promised, I was going to take this time to respond to the Op/Ed writer for the Denver Post, Steve Lipsher’s, excellent article entitled Patriots or scoundrels?, which was written On June 30, 2013.
What Lipsher’s Op/Ed piece reveals is how prevalent politically tinged catchy phrases, simple minded and half-baked solutions are made in an effort to imply that what’s said captures the essence of what needs to be done to get our country back on the “right” track again.
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On June 30, 2013, Steve Lipsher, Op/Ed writer for the Denver Post, wrote an article entitled Patriots or scoundrels?
Lipsher begins his article by saying, “This is the week to wave Old Glory and sing the national anthem proudly as we celebrate Independence Day.”
What Lipsher objects to is the way “those among us who tend to “display” their “red, white and blue fervor the rest of the year.” They do this by overtly demonstrating their nationalistic zeal by provocatively and ostentatiously questioning the patriotism of those who disagree with those who express any kind of criticism toward our beloved nation whatsoever,
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The Best Resolution Is to Follow Your Integrity Regardless of Your Politics; orig. title: A Conundrum that has No Easy Answers
A Conundrum that has No Easy Answers
Published on Monday, August 12, 2013, and updated Tuesday, August 13, 2013, reporters Rocco Parascandola, Jennifer Fermino and Dareh Gregorian, reporters for the New York Daily News, wrote a website article for the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, that caused a federal judge,
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African American inequalities of rights and civil abuses have been part of our country’s infamous history even before the birth of our nation. Those unfortunate discriminatory practices followed their “slave” status, even when the “negro” was freed from slavery or involuntary servitude as stated in the Thirteenth Amendment, and ratified on December 6, 1865.
On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.
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Many of the ideas for my blog What Does It Mean to be a Political Revolutionary?, came from Jonathan Mead’s “in inspiration, passion,” website: http://paidtoexist.com/how-to-start-a-revolution/. The blog he wrote was entitled How to Start a Revolution and was posted on his website on May 21, 2009.
He starts out his blog by stating: “I’ve found the secret to being excited about waking up every day, and I’ll tell you what it is right now.
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