Friday, November 16, 2018

When Partisanship Takes on Science on Global Warming: The Part before the Whole

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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams concurred on the following preference—namely, a natural aristocracy of virtue and talent over the artificia...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

The Gettysburg Address: Shaped by Small Pox?

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By the time Lincoln was back on the train returning to Washington, he was down with a high fever from Small Pox. I’m thinking the illness...

Thanksgiving Elipsed by Christmas: Will the Offending Businesses Go Extinct?

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Even as the business-sourced encroachment of Christmas had all but eclipsed the American holiday of Thanksgiving in 2013 on account of the ...

On the History of Thanksgiving: Challenging Assumptions

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We humans are so used to living in our subjectivity that we hardly notice it or the effect it has on us. In particular, we are hardly abl...

Target’s Senior Managers in Damage Control Mode: A Forensic Appraisal

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The number of transactions at Target, a major American retailer, during the weekend before Christmas in 2013 came in at between 3 to 4 perc...

The Arrest of a Senator in Georgia’s Capitol: A Sign of a Growing Authoritarian Police-State in America?

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Sen. Nikema Williams (D-Atlanta) of the Georgia Senate “was arrested along with more than a dozen other protesters” at the Georgia Capitol ...
Friday, November 9, 2018

The American Media Went “Nuclear” on the U.S. Senate's Filibuster: A Case of Hyperactive Marketing?

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Is ending the filibuster on appointments to executive-branch offices as well as judicial appointments below the U.S. Supreme Court really...

On the Nature of Principled Leadership

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What is principled leadership? Simply whatever a leader decides? Or even worse, believes? If so, does the content shift with the sands fr...

Unnecessary Systemic Risk: Banks' Price-Fixing and Racketeering in Side Businesses

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A lawsuit filed in a Florida district-court in 2013 alleged that JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and the London Metal Exchange (LME) artificially ...

Non-Positional Leadership: A Matter of Charisma?

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The concept of non-positional leadership is typically associated with charismatic leadership . [1] The Hebrew prophets are a case in point...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Does Refusing Rolling Stone Magazine's Use of a Criminal's Picture For Marketing Purposes Violate Corporate Social Responsibility?

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In 2013, the editors at Rolling Stone must have been kicking themselves after several retail chains announced that they would not be selli...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Transcending Limited Notions of the Divine

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When religion meets human nature, does the gravitational pull of me, me, me tend to encompass the journey downward in an all too comfortabl...

Handouts in Averting the Fiscal Cliff: The Price of Politics?

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What is that nebulous thing called politics? Might it be that the practice is essentially exploiting or creating what are known as princi...

Keeping the Palestinian Authority Down at the United Nations

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In “defiance of retaliation threatened” by the United States and the state of Israel, the Palestinian Authority announced in November 2...

The “Fiscal Cliff” in U.S.: Real or Hyped?

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As the U.S. economy slogged through a recession following the credit crisis in 2008 and the E.U. was weighed down by the ballast of auste...