A revolution in this country is not imminent. However, unless the gross injustices are not addressed, where there is more equality of opportunity among all social classes, in addition to fairer representation of various social classes in our Congress, or if not represented, at least their needs are being expressed and acted upon by our government, ultimately, a revolution of some dimension will result.
Although I recognize that currently, there are more pressing problems that Congress needs to address,
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The problem that exists between our government and its people today and what existed between the revolutionists and England in the 1700s, is one of a difference in form, rather than substance. That’s because, in both instances, whether we’re talking about England or our country here, in the 21st century, the abuses were the same in substance (loss of our Nation’s Integrity), but different in kind (or in the way the abuses were expressed),
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On December 10, 2013, with great interest, I read a day earlier delivered speech that President Barack Obama gave to more than 90 world leaders and tens of thousands of South Africans who gathered to pay their last respects to Nelson Mandela at a memorial service held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Obama spoke of Mandela as being a “giant of history.” He said that Mandela “… moved a nation towards justice and in the process moved billions around the world.”
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I had just finished working out and was leaving the Senior Center, when I noticed a woman reading a Time magazine article. On its cover read, What Would Lincoln Do? I thought the article referred to the Congressional Gun Control Debate, but it didn’t turn out to be that at all. His thoughts about gun control would have indeed been a good question to ask President Abraham Lincoln because within the answer to the question resides a moral imperative,
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On December 6, 2013, the day after Nelson Mandela’s death at 95 years of age, Tracy Conner, Staff Writer for NBC News.com website wrote an article for WORLD NEWS entitled ‘He is now at peace’: Nelson Mandela dead at 95.
Conner mentioned “Nelson Mandela, the revered South African anti-apartheid icon who spent 27 years in prison, led his country to democracy and became its first black president, died Thursday at home.”
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Yes, cooperation not competition is important in today’s political discourse. That’s because of the insidious nature that competition taints political discussions. Whether or not we view political debate as being one of cooperation vs. competition is particularly relevant to what our government sets as its priority in serving the American people. Right now the model has been one of competition ever since we had political parties. Unquestionably, it’s time for the paradigm to change. Instead of the destructive and unhelpful model of competition that our system of government revolves around today,
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Sequestration was established as a means to force the Congressional Budget Committee on Deficit Reduction to produce legislation by November 23, 2011 to further reduce spending by at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
The automatic sequestration process threat was intended to force the Congressional Budget Committee on Deficit Reduction to present a reasonable plan to Congress. Predictably, it was unable to do as intended, since they failed to even submit a proposal, yet alone to pass the required amount in cuts by the end of 2012.
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As I did last week, I will continue to discuss the 60 Minutes interview with the former CIA Deputy Director, Mike Morell, conducted by correspondent John Miller on October 27, 2013. The interview was entitled The Deputy Director: Mike Morell.
As reported by Miller, Morell believes our country “can manage most external threats, but as an analyst he sees our greatest vulnerability is one generated right here at home.”
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On October 27, 2013, the former CIA Deputy Director: Mike Morell was interviewed by correspondent John Miller on 60 Minutes. The interview was entitled The Deputy Director: Mike Morell.
According to Miller, Morell’s “insights have helped shape the key foreign-policy decisions of the last three presidents.”
In discussing Edward Snowden, the leaker of classified documents concerning the United States’ secret electronic surveillance programs, Morell said he did not believe that Snowden was a whistleblower.
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On October 22, 2013, columnist Tom McCarthy, writing for the Washington Post, wrote a blog on the Washington Post website entitled: Richard Cohen’s reverse on Snowden: not a ‘traitor’, but a whistleblower.
McCarthy reports that Richard Cohen, also columnist for the Washington Post, said that last June, he, Cohen, had written that Snowden will “go down in history not as a whistleblower but ‘as a cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood’ who is ‘ridiculously cinematic’ and ‘narcissistic.’”
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