Brian Williams’s leave of absence due to concerns about his truthfulness is just the highest profile of a long line of individuals who have stretched the truth. It is interesting to me that the truth matters so much to Americans in a news anchor, but so little in our political leaders. Politicfact.com has four pages […]
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Truth Telling Matters
18 Feb 2015
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President Obama and The Share Our Wealth Plan
20 Jan 2015
It is probably not wise to write a blog on the evening of the State of the Union address–before listening to the address–but it isn’t the most foolish thing I have done in life. Scripture has a number of warnings about being foolish, and I am hoping that Americans take heed. President Obama unveiled a […]
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What Would Brave Voters Do?
03 Nov 2014
You may think this is piling on, but I am okay with that. Some things need to be jumped on. Our national anthem ends with the following line, “O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?” I am seeing precious little freedom or […]
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Hillary for President?
20 Jan 2014
I recently received my latest issue of Time magazine and found the cover story dedicated to the idea that Hillary Clinton is in the driver seat when it comes to the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2016. This concept is only supported by the fact that polling organizations are already comparing favorability numbers between […]
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Welcome to a new category of post, the Hall of Shame. This category is for the most outrageous of political economy issues. For our inaugural post, I offer this quote from former San Fransisco Mayor Willie Brown, a California political institution in his own right. Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, July 28 (As reported […]