I presume this writer is a Democrat. If so I presume that he heard the proceedings at the Convention in L. A. If so he must have heard all the “yapping” (Ghost of F.D.R.) that we should have another Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Now we need that like we need “a hole in the head.” I happen [...]
Continue reading about Pop’s Letters – July 23, 1960 – Part Two
I’ve been a deacon, church school director, lay preacher and served on almost every committee of my Church. I give what I can out of my material resources. I also use this giving as a tax deduction. Hey! I’m not stupid! Yet it would not matter to me whether there was a tax break or [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Confused Religious Liberty
“On Faith and the Founding” is a tricky chapter to deconstruct in Liberty and Tyranny. Without an understanding of Christian faith one is likely to be overwhelmed by Levin’s rhetoric in support of religious liberty. Christianity marks a dramatic turning point in monotheism. Before Christ, God had a chosen people based on culture and lineage. [...]
I’ve been doing the deconstruction of Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny for about a month now, including the background materials. That is enough time to gauge interest from readers to my blog. It appears that my best “blogging strategy” would be to limit such posts to once a week. Using my current method that would be [...]
Continue reading about Initial Misinformed Urgency from Liberty and Tyranny
Last week I began with a deconstruction of Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny, going over the three basic types of information (dogma, omission, distortion) found in the first chapter. To recap, Levin takes a dogmatic approach to knowledge and politics, which historically retards progress and prevents learning from experience. A center point of Chapter One [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Initial Misinformation Purpose
Two recent revelations put my long time comment policy into jeopardy. The first is I’m just now realizing that people may link into a post that does not display the main page and, consequently, never see what the comment policy is when they make their comment. Yes, yes, I’m a slow learner. I’ve tried a [...]
The fourth misinformation principle states that we are misinformed by secrecy and omission. In scientific jargon this affects the validity of the information. If you determined the average weight of humans by sampling only sumo wrestlers your information would not be valid because you omitted humans of varying types. If you weighed everyone in your [...]
Occasionally I get an idea for an entry that I put on hold because of a series I am working on. After the 2008 election one of my immediate reflections that I put on hold was that corporate media, particularly the types such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, sunk the Republican Party. This is [...]
Continue reading about Did Fox News Torpedo the Republican Party?
The political essays from Systems out of Balance go into great depth regarding the shared ingredients for wisdom and democracy. Both draw from diverse, independent and decentralized experiences. Both find a way to determine the norm from these experiences. Both serve the many, rather than the few.
We started out as a federated democracy, drawing from [...]
This is the last entry about Memorial Day, our expectations for soldiers and the implications that these have for “ordinary” citizens and for foreign policy.
The Washington Post endorsed the invasion of Iraq and generally provided supportive coverage during the first months of the war. However, they provided one type of coverage that went beyond the [...]
