Friday, June 20, 2025

Biological Gender and Cultural Gender

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There is so much anger over the issue of gender. Much of it is the result of the failure to appreciate that there is a difference between bi...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Science and Social Progress

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There is now a sharp divide between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. That divide was not as evident in the 1950s when I was a ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Message to Our Legislators on Protecting Persons with Disabilities

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                 Right now, families of children with special needs are under attack in multiple ways. Will you protect the most vulnerable ...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Fascism

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The essence of fascism is narcissism. It is the opposite of caring and compassion towards others. Every manifestation of fascism involves th...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Evolving Concepts of Masculinity

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The presidential election reflects competing understandings of what it means to "be a man" in our society.  Is a real man someone ...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Lincoln on Immigration -- Blood of the Blood and Flesh of the Flesh

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In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas for United States Senator from Illinois. A minority yet significant presence on the American pol...
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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Lincoln and Vallandigham

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In 1863 General Ambrose Burnside declared martial law in Ohio and arrested Clement L. Vallandigham, a pro-slavery politician who had made a ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

America's Children Are Your Children

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 In developing America's economic policy - how we should tax and spend - our guiding principle should not be "What is best for me p...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Love and Truth, Not Hate and Lies

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Our guiding principles in politics as in life must be love and truth, not hate and lies. In assessing what to do about climate change, abort...
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Saturday, August 5, 2017

Is Trump Right in Asserting that the Foreign Sanctions Statute is Unconstitutional? Yes and No.

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On August 2, President Trump signed H.R. 3364 , the " Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ," a law imposing...