Summary: Left and Right in America are in many ways mirror images of each other, as many posts here have shown. No surprise, since we’re all Americans. If we recognize this, perhaps we can better communicate with each other, and perhaps even work together better. {1st of 2 posts today.} Left and Right share …
Dreams of apocalypses show the brotherhood of America’s Left & Right Read More »
Summary: A holiday reminder about our history and who we are. . For our Constitutional regime to survive the coming troubles we’ll need social cohesion. That means remembering who we are as a people and nation. Remembering our shared history. And most of all, remembering that America belongs to us, its citizens. No matter how powerful our elites …
Why the Turkey is not our national bird, and a reminder that America belongs to us Read More »
Summary of conclusions to my review of comments on this site about reforming America.  These are provocative speculation,s nothing more, based on a tiny sample. However, we are in trouble if these are representative of America’s intelligentsia. These comments show a deep alienation from our Republic, going beyond indifference to antipathy. This situation has historical analogs, in which a dissatisfied …
The intelligentsia takes easy steps to abandoning America Read More »
I am often asked my opinion about the causes of America’s current geopolitical ills. Why do we face so many serious problems at the same time? The previous note in this series describes how we have changed, perhaps in ways so that the Constitution no long fits. Another possible reason is our alienation from each other, a failure …
The following note by Chet Richards was extracted from the comments on An important thing to remember as we start a New Year (Chet is Editor of Defense and the National Interest and writes at his blog): Could you comment on what it is that gives the United States its enormous competitive strength? Let me throw out an …
