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Organizational ineptitude Just who is in charge of our federal government these days? A pattern of behavior is what prompts the question. A...

Things in perspective Perhaps we USA Americans still do not dominate the rest of the humans in the world. Perhaps other humans in the world...

Another political mafia comes to town To be kind, that is probably the nature of American federal politics. Use your imagination and educ...

Reinforce success, not failure And voting is the main way to do it in the USA America. And voting’s effects will apply quicker, like over a...

Let’s come home We USA Americans are pretty neat. But we also eventually act in our own self interest, like protecting us, our families, an...

“I wish we had another choice” And we USA Americans actually do have new voting choices in 2010. And the good news is that it is evolving a...

Classic propaganda Most of us know it when we think we can feel it, see it, or smell it. The technique is most classical in human histor...

What is wrong with paying our way? Most do it because they have to. Now some governments have tried other ways, mostly by borrowing or expl...

Morals count a lot Here in the new world USA this normal human principle is finally popping up, more and more. I suspect it is also popping...

Just what is happiness? Good health and self respect is one personal opinion. And I happen to live on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, ...

The cauldron bubbles on Much is said of the problems our western cultures and governments are having. Mostly it seems like decades of elec...

What a country! Only in a wonderful country like the USA can a Puerto Rican heritage Congressman from an obviously gerrymandered Chicago di...

California here I am gone I actually sang the old song “California Here I Come” when I crossed over into California from Arizona vicinity o...

Educating the normal people I think of people as being either smart, normal, or dumb. If you buy that idea, then read on. I for one used t...

The beginning of the end The title suggests the bad news using this old time expression. One can also express hope and expect that after t...

I can be worried, too When decades of our past elected governments passing laws and employing practices that ultimately threaten our collec...

Preparing meals is a good deal Now many in the west these days are not trained about preparing food for their family. Now probably more fe...

The Tea Party idea Not too long ago when asked who would I vote for in the 2008 federal election, the usual answer was “I wished we had ano...

Just another report about American friction Just last night about midnight on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee a friend of mine about ag...

Here is a guess about the Korean peninsula The present leader of North Korea will die from getting old. Now by nepotism, he inherited his p...