Curiously, while writing Political Straight Talk: A Prescription for Healing Our Broken System of Government, Kathryn and I discovered more evidence that love is the essence of life. You might ask how could I conclude anything about love after writing three books involving politics. For when we talk about the politics of today, love is hardly what jumps out at you, considering how our politicians have behaved during and since the political debates.
All it takes is one political provocateur to utter an angry word for the whole tenor of the discussion to become uncivil.
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On June 12, 2016, writing for the blog Real Clear Politics, Carl M. Cannon, the Washington Bureau Chief for that website, wrote a blog about the recently elected primary Republican candidate for president of the United States, Donald Trump, entitled Trump Is Looking for a Way Out. He cites many examples to support his opinion.
Cannon couldn’t be more right!
Frankly, I’ve believed that Trump was looking for a way out for many months now—starting about the time when he and others believed he might be able to pull it off and beat his other 16 rivals and win the Republican primary presidential nomination.
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It’s Father’s Day on June 19, a date also celebrated by Americans of African descent for that day in 1865 when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached their ancestors enslaved in Texas. Juneteenth, as it’s called, is a kind of Independence Day or Freedom Day for anyone paying attention. The Emancipation Proclamation, as we should all remember, was issued January 1, 1863, virtually two and a half years earlier, but who’s counting? Certainly not the white slaveholders in the South,
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Unlike my previous books, I wrote Political Straight Talk: A Prescription for Healing Our Broken System of Government with a coauthor, Kathryn Robyn. It is the last of a trilogy of political books, each of which stands on its own. Before I talk about why we are both excited about our current book, I’d like to tell you a little about the earlier books so you’ll get a better idea why I needed to write Political Straight Talk in the first place.
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I wrote the psychologically based Political Straight Talk: A Prescription for Healing Our Broken System of Government with Kathryn L. Robyn. Kathryn’s editorial contributions to the book’s content were invaluable, not just for her writing skills, but the intellectual properties of the book were greatly enhanced by her input as well.
Normally, a book of this nature ends up being an arduous task, fact checking, resource double-checking, structuring and restructuring, and revising and revising … and revising.
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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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On November 27, 2012, Doug Bandow wrote an article on the Freeman website, entitled, THE FUTURE BELONGS TO LIBERTY, Indivisible Liberty: Personal, Political, and Economic.
In Bandow’s article, he said, “…when it comes to economic liberty, a lot of people suddenly change their tune. It’s as if economic liberty doesn’t count. Indeed, this facet of freedom seems to stand alone, vulnerable to state regulation and control.”
We have to ask ourselves why the regulation happened in the first place?
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