American Ideals and Values

Boycott Coffee Shops to Promote Exclusion and Division

Last update April 19, 2018Leave a Comment

A boycott of our most recognized chain of coffee shops creates division based on an agitator’s dream of a racially intolerant, divided country. In the extremely unlikely event that shunning Starbucks succeeds and hits the company’s bottom line it will hurt the very same people activists seek to defend when they protest economic injustice. That’s why promoting a coffee shop boycott is so fundamentally wrong. It’s a strategy that’s not meant to fix a problem, but to encourage much larger divisions in our society.

Hope, Faith in America Battle Democratic Script of Fear and Threats

Last update March 7, 2018Leave a Comment

Democratic style hope and faith has shifted from Obama’s liberal vision to a dialogue of hate, fear, and threats. It’s all just politics as usual that undermines our faith and confidence in a nation we are repeatedly told is morally bankrupt and teetering on the verge of fascism. This isn’t an America anyone wants, but how much of this new vision is just an unethical partisan fabrication?

Civil Rights Leaders Threatened With Success Helped by Trump

Last update December 12, 2017Leave a Comment

America’s civil rights leaders have a problem. They can’t solve it because success is not an option. If they ever get what they want they will become relics, a part of history. That means no notoriety, no claim to political office, no fame, and no money.

Forgiveness is Not Something America Can be Thankful For

Last update November 25, 2017Leave a Comment

When I think about what forgiveness means to America I can’t help but remember the long list of Obama pardons and commutations, including the 231 inmates who got lucky¹ near the end of his presidency. The Justice Department put the numbers out for all to see.

Harassment is Welcome Because Our Society Loves Scandal

Last update November 22, 2017Leave a Comment

A nationwide epidemic of sexual harassment is a scandal too good to be true. From all appearances the problem is rampant at the highest levels of our society and that means the hype is what counts even though it mocks this vulgar abuse of power.