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Politics 〮Domestic Policy 〮The White House ✼
Topic:
Presidential Campaign -2012 Election:
Halftime & Hyperbole. Karl Rove and the Gop PR Disaster
In Response to the Chrysler / Clint Eastwood Superbowl Halftime Ad.
Time- Joe Klein. February 2012
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Topic:
Political Parties
Topics:
The President , The White House & Constitutional Law
Essay:
A Rare moment of Pride.
Respect for our President, the kind thats earned, the kind that walks with Pride, has been absent so long from
my life, that I have forgotten that this is a thing that shoud be fundamental to our shared political life.
Fundamental to not only a Policy Analyst/strategist to his Flag, but -citizen to his Government and Nation.
This is quite like making peace with one's Gd. An ordering of life.
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A Picture is worth a thousand Words. The Obama Grin.
US leverage is limited- Pres. Obama/ Chancellor Merkel -Photo Nov 4, 2011
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Series: Study in Trends and Critical Issues in The American Political Process
Expansion & Constitutional Abrogation of the power & Prerogatives of the Executive Branch and the Presidency.
A Constitution For the People, By the People, Of the People ...when convenient.
A reflection on the Bizarre, and apparently unnoticed & dangerously irrelevant trend in American Government to Ignore, Abrogate, and outright - Rewrite- the US Constitution according to Executive Branch -Objectives.
Our contemporary Flavor of the Day Constitution, is particularly Interesting in light of the trends toward
Historicism, Foundationalism , & Originalism in Constitutional Law theory, as manifest & espoused to one degree or another by every conservative Justice sitting on the Court.
Essay
Constitutional Law
"The Power to Kill. The administration has not made a case for killing citizens without judicial Review"
NYTimes Editorial 11 March 2012-Response.
Published 12 March 2012
From Constitutional Democracy to Banana Republic. Discarding Core Values and Foundational Principles without opprobrium or a ...whimper.
Domestic Politics:
Essay:
On American Decline in an Age of Growth & Prosperity
Zero Sum Future. American Power in an Age of Anxiety. Gideon Rachman.
on Giedon Rachman’s Study of the Global Econ Rise of China (from 1978) to
the present US economic catastrophe.
“The win win logic of the age of optimism has been replaced by a zero sum dynamic. One nation’s benefit comes at another’s expense.
The promoters of a Free-market economics & Democratic politics have succumbed to
intellectual arrogance and Hubris.”
Book Review & Response.
Essay:
Abandoning our Post Offices. - Malfeasance in Three Acts.
Feb 2011
-See also Postal Mortem. nYT. 2.6.11
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American Exceptionalism in an Extraordinarily UnExceptional Time. -Origins, Virtue, & Vices.
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In Memory. Honoring Robert Byrd . June 29, 2010
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The Tea Party gets early start on 2012 targets NyTimes 3 January 2011. Kate Zernke-
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Energy Policy and the Obvious Truth behind our Resistance to Developing alternatives to Fossil Fuels. 2010
In Defense of Civil Discourse: Jeffrey Zelery. Newsweek 6 February 2011
Palin Rallying base, paints dark picture of Obamas policies.
Reprisal of Reagan’s 1964 Speech ‘A time for Change” & the Political Action Committee -“Not Speaking” as a sign.
Respose.
A Government of Gentlemen, ..by the people , for the people. February 2011
Tip ONeill At Ronnie’s Bedside, A lesson.
Chris Matthews -From Charlie Rose.
Essay
Civil Discourse & Knights of the round Table.
An invitation -to Engage the Discourse & Practice of Politics.
Essay
A Presidency to nowhere. Daniel Henninnger. WSj 2011
Response:
Daniel Stone; NewsWeek 22 November 2010
Hail to the chiefs. The presidency - grown beyond anything rational.
Essay.
NewsWeek -Obama true to his words.
29 November 2010. J. Kloppenberg
Commentary.
Countering the Myopia. NewsWeek. Samuelson - 2010s
On High speed Rail as pork: Newsweek
Essay & Response. **
Topic: Crime, The Police State, Criminal Justice, Domestic Security.
Essay
More are Ensnared by Criminal Laws
WsJ july 23-24 2011
Response **
Essay.
The Prosecution Rests, but I Cant.
Nyt OpEd. April 10, 2011
Response **
Essay.
Thrown Apple hurts girl, boy Charged.
CTribune Dec 14, 2011
Response**
Topic:
Government -Obese, Dysfunctional, and Growing without Restraint or ...Design.
Topic:
Environment , Conservation, Climate Change, & The Human Thing .
Essay.
Tragedy in Black and white. NYt Book Review. Royte. -On A Journey to the Future of
Antarctica. Montaigne. December 2010.
Global warming destroying a penguin colony. The Bridge Beautiful
Re-Framing the questions of Global Warming, Conservation, Environmentalism,
Green Energy, Science, and Free Market
Essay.
Monsters & ....Human. NYTimes -From The Dublin Journal. December 2010 -A nation’s financial hardships push Horses out to Die.
Fallout from Ireland’s Economic Debacle. Is this an excuse to behave like Monsters?
Essay.
Re-framing the Global Warming Debate. 2010
Taking the histrionics & Politics out of what should be a Rational , Scientific, Discussion.
Special Interests, Myth, Culture. Belief Systems..... wish fulfillment .
Topic:
From Self Help, Enlightenment & Healing. - Nothing to Loose.
The problem of the Solution. Framing, and approaching the challenges & problems of our time in ways that -enable solutions .
Topic: Health Care & Medicine
Essay.
The Unusual Mistake of Success -Legislation out of step. Values & Consensus Vs a Crusade. On the Obama -Health care Bill & Why it is Fundamentally flawed.
key Quote P. 29 John Hinckenlooper New York Times Interview: January 9, 2011
Topics:
Jobs & Employment
Discussing values , Corporate Dysfunction, their relationship to the whole, and the problems of America’s Future.A Story of A career taken, a life -vanquished-, and the corporations that are the ultimate Losers.
Topic:
Budget & The Deficit:
Essay:
The 2010 Budget:
The Deficit Commission’s Recommendations & Obama’s Refusal
Hope. Change. Vision & a Promise that never saw the light of day.
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The Budget: Tax Hikes, Deficit Red- A Third Way. On the Budget dilemma. NewsWeek
28 February 2011 Niall Ferguson
Response.
Essay:
Joe Klein Newsweek: 29 November 2010
The deficit reduction obsession .Ex. **
Response.
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Wicked Company, The Zealotry of Free Thinkers. Wall Street Journal Book Review.
Michael Burleigh. November 2010.
18th century thinkers of the Enlightenment's forgotten radicalism. Diderot . Hume Rousseau. Twice weekly salon
The radicalism consisted of Advocating Democracy over .....
Addendum.
Response.
Essay:
The President and the Passions. Mark Lilla. New York Times December 19 2010.***
On the emotions in Decision Making and Channeling our emotional Drives
Poor decisions are made when influenced by passion, exuberance, and fear.
The goal is for -the rational to rule our decisions, ....or is it? ...see citation ***
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