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All Americans Share Values but We Don’t Engineer Success

Last update December 7, 2018Leave a Comment

Don’t confuse Democratic Party political priorities like Medicare for All or free college with true American values. The former vanish with the changing of the guard and the up and down of the economy. Values that matter are enduring. They focus on ideas much greater than what to spend on next. We should all be wise enough to agree that it’s the height of arrogance for people we elect to tell us what we want and what we should have.

Civility Rules? House Commitment Signers Choose Hostility

Last update October 26, 2018Leave a Comment

Can we politely agree that political losers don’t have any reason to be civil? That includes minority House Democrats who signed a commitment yet play by their own unique set of civility rules that don’t place outright hostility and disrespect off limits, especially when they are directed at the president.

Hondurans TPS Protection Ends, War of Words Begins

Last update May 16, 2018Leave a Comment

The mean-spirited war of words that started after the White House ended TPS for Hondurans ignores the fact that this temporary program has dragged on for 20 years. This isn’t mass deportation despite the disinformation from Democrats. Two decades is long enough and changing the reason Hondurans need sanctuary in the U.S. is not an excuse to keep them here in perpetuity.

Hateful is the Democratic Buzzword for 2017

Last update January 13, 2018Leave a Comment

Hateful was the winning buzzword for Democrats in 2017. Party members used it liberally and usually in conjunction with another word: Trump.

A lot of hateful from one congresswoman

This was a year where we heard about “hateful Executive Orders,”¹ “hateful rhetoric, policies, and actions,”² and “hateful policies that do not reflect our widely-shared values as a nation.”³

All of these came from one California Democrat, Representative Judy Chu.

Democracy Reform Task Force: One-Party System the Answer?

Last update November 16, 2017Leave a Comment

I laughed when Maryland Congressman John Sarbanes was tapped to lead the extremely partisan Democracy Reform Task Force. Democrats stinging from their Clinton catastrophe haven’t stopped spreading the word that our system of government is under attack, but the important question is not whether our democracy is at risk.