Republic Rules - The U.S.A. is a great representative republic.

Every collection of people depends on the glue of a common morality to hold them together. The thread they share… their unity of beliefs… is what binds them to each other, prevents chaos from taking over, and supports the perpetuation their society.
While morals can be learned from - and taught by - people outside […]

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I’ve said before that I would prefer a lower, more informed voter turnout than a higher, less informed voter turnout… and I stand by that. But, why is the percentage of those who bother to vote so low?
You can see from the chart below that only about half of those who can… vote. […]

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One of my few pet peeves is bad spelling.  It just bugs me.  I can look at a full page of written material and the misspelled words will jump out at me from wherever they appear on the page.  Not to say I don’t make mistakes from time to time… I do… but it bothers […]

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I think the United States became great because our founders created a unique environment under which individuals could pursue their dreams while maintaining a strong sense of community, where competition was rewarded but cooperation still encouraged, where government respected the people and people respected the government.
Over time, the balance seems to have shifted… and the […]

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Individuals used to have many reliable resources available to help them learn what’s going on in their country and, if necessary, when their involvement was especially needful. The major TV networks were reasonably objective in their presentation of the news and typically ended their broadcasts with an editorial statement (and appropriately identified it […]

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… do you blindly keep doing it or do you try something else?
You’ve heard this before… and it has truth in it:
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again yet expecting different results.”
One of the inherent weaknesses of our government and political system is the momentum gained when a “program” […]

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In the youth culture, you hear a lot about “respect”. As always, though, it is wiser to judge not words… but actions. So, what is the actual status of RESPECT in the younger generation?
Look at an obvious area: music. While there are many talented young artists who give us some beautiful […]

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But it is the best economic system possible. Free enterprise leads to the greatest efficiency in production, the widest range of products and services available, continual innovation, and the betterment of those who live under it. Other systems have been tried and, eventually, they fail. At its core, capitalism leverages positively on basic […]

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While almost all of us have our “day jobs”, parents have second job… a bigger job. In today’s busy world, some of us have lost sight of the fact that parenting is actually the highest priority job, the ultimate responsibility. It is one where the pleasures and pains can be immediate and intense […]

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Over the past several decades, we have seen most of the institutions in our country adopt better ways to achieve their goals, to accomplish their purposes.  From banking to electronics, from transportation to telecommunications, significant changes have led to a much different way of doing business for all of us.
One area that has seen little […]

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