Protect & Empower

Checks and Balances – Supporting the United Steel Workers

The founders of America included a fundamental idea in our Constitution: checks and balances - one branch of government checks…

10 years ago

The Texas Democratic Party Wanted to Know …

I just responded to a Texas Democratic Party Survey. Here are their questions and my answers: What do you think…

10 years ago

Functioning Democracies Require Citizen Participation and That …

Government is crucial for building a public infrastructure that equally protects and empowers every citizen Citizenship dues are necessary to…

10 years ago

Unions Must Lead The Fight Against Climate Disruption

Demand freedom from Climate disruption - increased weather extremes and human costs resulting from significant, unseen, and rampant releases of…

11 years ago

America’s Two Party System – The Good, Bad, and The Really Ugly

First of all, a short summary of The Lucifer Effect. It explains how events like Mi Lai, Abu Ghraib, and…

11 years ago

What’s Really Best for an ‘Unwanted’?

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no…

11 years ago

Avoiding The Right-wing Authoritarian Future – The Moral Values Way

(Unless otherwise noted, this posting includes extensive excerpts from Appendix VII, The New Patriotism, of the The 15% Solution, by…

11 years ago

Moral Values of the Left and Right – History Shows Which Works for All Americans

Throughout this blog, postings have provided details about the strict father and nurturant parent worldviews. Charts in some of those…

12 years ago

Corporate Governance Erodes Democracy As Education is Privatized

Corporate governance destroys democracy by replacing accountability to citizens with accountability to a few major stockholders and boards of directors…

12 years ago

Corporate Governance of Social Security & Medicare – An Abominable Idea for Senior Welfare

I've sent the following to President Obama via the White House contact web site: You might consider doing something similar…

12 years ago