Friday, November 6, 2020

American Federalism Eclipsed by an Ideal of Democracy: Education Over Immigration as a Constitutional Problem

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The U.S. Constitution includes immigration as one of the listed (i.e., enumerated) powers of the federal government. Education is not such a...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

The Right of Political Protest in the U.S.: Nullified in the Outback by Intimidation

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The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states in part, “Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the right of the people peaceably ...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Deficit Reduction and Tax Breaks: Rhetoric and Reality

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Actions speak louder than words. A tree is known by its fruit. Where your treasure is, therein lies your heart. These three sayings each hav...

The Tyranny of the Veto: Eviscerating the U.N.

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Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on October 4, 2011, effectively tossing a life preserver, according to the New ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

On the Ethics of Business Donations and Saving Souls

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In the film,  Major Barbara  (1941),  Barbara, a Major in the Salvation Army, has been raised with her sister and brother by their mother. S...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Coronavirus Reveals Dysfunctional Culture in Arizona

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In mid-October, 2020, when the coronavirus was again peaking in E.U. states such as France and Germany and U.S. states such as Wisconsin and...
Friday, September 25, 2020

On the Arrogance of Self-Entitlement during a Pandemic

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In the midst of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, libertarians in San Francisco, California objected to wearing face masks. Other people there ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Societal Change as the Mission of the U.S. Supreme Court

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By chance, I watched RBG (2018), a documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a U.S. Supreme Court justice, on the day she died in 2020. Being just...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

On the American Military-Industrial Complex

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A democratic republic affords many avenues for organized private interests to influence public policy. The fact that such interests are orga...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Britain's Obsession with Sovereignty Threatens Trade Treaty with the E.U.

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Months after Britain seceded from the E.U., the government of the former state went rogue in intending to pass a law that would unilaterally...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Miracles as a Literary Device

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The Greatest Story Ever Told  (1965) is known for being the first Hollywood movie in which the face of Jesus is shown. From the standpoint o...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Satan in Film: In Light or Darkness?

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Released in the last year of the twentieth century,  The Ninth Gate  is a film about the use of a book to conjure up Satan. The book's ...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

False Christians as the Power-Elite of a Church: A Case of Human Arrogance

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In what begins as a story about Bess, a mentally-ill (or cognitively challenged) woman who marries Jan, an oilman,  Breaking the Waves  (19...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Deforestation in Brazil: Exacerbating Climate Change

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On July 17, 2020, satellite data from Brazil's space agency showed that deforestation in Brazil's Amazon was accelerating. "Ne...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Corona Crisis: Arizona in a “Free Fall” and “Out of Control”

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On July 7, 2020, NBC News reported that Arizona had a record number of cases (105,094) and of deaths (1,927), with a four percent daily in...