One of the main reasons I feel so passionate about encouraging you, dear reader, to become interested in my psychologically based book What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way is because I feel this is the last great hope that we can get ourselves out of this morass our country has found itself in.
Basically, the reason we’re in this mess is because our two political parties are unwilling to compromise,
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In Jim Galloway’s blog, Political Insider, as referenced above, he states: “Republicans want to be a party for every American in every neighborhood in every state. That’s why we must end the practice of labeling states red and blue. That’s why we must build relationships in communities where we haven’t been. That’s why we must stop talking about ‘reaching out’ and start working on ‘welcoming in.’”
Although I differ with Galloway as to why “labeling states” as red and blue must go,
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I just heard on TV that there’s not expected to be a ban on the use of assault weapons or the number of rounds allowed to be used in a magazine clip this year, the news coming just after learning that our first lady, Michelle Obama, had attended the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton, who sang at the presidential Inauguration, and who was shot and killed in a gang-related gun violence in a park close to the Obamas’ home on Chicago’s South Side.
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Last week I posted a blog about a Time magazine article regarding President Abraham Lincoln. I briefly glanced at the article a woman was reading at the YMCA Senior Center. I thought I knew the title and some of the content of the article based on my very cursory scanning of the article. Not only was the title incorrect, but the content was erroneous as well. Instead of the title being What Would Lincoln Have Done, the title was actually What Would Lincoln Do?
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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 Have Done? I knew immediately what that title was referring to, which was the Congressional Gun Control Debate. That would have indeed been a good question to ask President Abraham Lincoln because within the answer to the question resides a moral imperative, and who better to answer such a question but Lincoln?
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On January 20, 2013, Alex Pappas, Political Reporter for THE DAILY CALLER blog website, began the blog by saying:
“With the effects of her brain injury apparent through her slow speech, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords opened up the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on gun violence on Wednesday by saying, ‘Speaking is difficult but I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem.’”
Pappas reports that Rep. Giffords said,
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During the time leading up to the American Revolution, there was no standing army in the Colonies. As such, they had to be ready to fight in a “minute’s” notice to defend themselves. That’s why they were called “minute men.” They were our only defense against invasion at the time.
After the war, when our Founding Fathers were drafting the Constitution, they included the right to bear arms (the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights) to ensure there would always be a means to protect and defend the newly established country.
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If you have been following my blogs with any regularity, you probably are wondering why I decided to write a blog on this subject rather than one related to my book, What Would Our Founding Fathers Say? Well, I decided to change course and write this blog because of what I see happening in our world of politics today.
As a country, we are getting way off course in what we should be focusing on as a nation.
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On January 3, 2013, the National Public Radio (NPR) ran a recent New York Times Op-Ed piece segment on Talk of the Nation, entitled: We The People Should Throw Out The Constitution. It can be heard on line at: http://www.npr.org/2013/01/03/168549290/the-constitution-just-a-poetic-piece-of-parchment.
An NPR interview staff member, Neal Conan, interviewed law professor Mike Seidman, who argues that it’s time to “reexamine the role of the Constitution.” In a New York Times recent Op/Ed piece,
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As the title for this blog suggests, the essence of life is represented in the integrity of individuals. For, according to our Founding Fathers, they feel it is one of the most important virtue our country can have and it’s one of the foundations upon which our Constitution was written and our country was founded upon. John Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and second president of the United States, said that without preserving our national integrity our democracy and republic will not survive,
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