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On Environment and Energy, Party Platforms Stand in Sharp Contrast

The Democrats see government as the main actor in shaping American life. Republicans leave that to citizens. At the Second All-Russian Congress of Political Education Departments in 1921, Vladimir Lenin said, “The whole question is, who will overtake whom?”  Over the next decade various Communist factions shortened that to “Who, whom?” and used it of…

Hillary or Trump, an Assessment

When in the course of human events we have an election like the 2016 election it seems not inappropriate to share an assessment of the situation with family and friends. This assessment flows from our life-long interest in government while living under one-third of the U.S. Presidents.   Normally the job description for President of…

One Final Chance

Most of us felt shudders of dread and fear as Barack Obama and a complete Democrat congressional majority were “elected” in 2008. As Obama and the Democrats stole trillions of our dollars to pay off friends in the “stimulus” and finished corporatizing our healthcare system with ObamaCare, we watched helplessly from the sidelines as our…

Uninhabitable Habitat for the World

Next month UN officials, stakeholders, NGOs, civil society, and world leaders will go back to Istanbul to, hopefully on their part, finish what they started mapping out in 1976 in Vancouver and 1996 in Istanbul. That is: because the cities are the vectors of social change, moving people to settlements of densely packed apartments (over…