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COEXIST, Part 1: Framing the Issue

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I frequently see cars with the “Coexist” bumper sticker. When I see them, I often wonder about the person who put the bumper sticker on their car. Why? Are they true believers or virtue signalers? When situations get complicated like that of Israel and Hamas, how will they act? This article, part 1 of 5, provides an introduction and frames the issues.

Truth is the First Casualty of…Unchecked Power

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Three years after the US’s catastrophic run from Afghanistan, most Americans have no clue what happened. No one has stood up and taken responsibility. Five years after the killings that triggered Black Lives Matter (BLM) most Americans do not really understand what happened and the surrounding circumstances. Even more recently, most of us do not …

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Republic versus Superpower Part 3: Operational Security, Transparency, and Security

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  When I looked at the question, Can a Free Republic be a Superpower?, the conflict between transparency and security troubled me. I set the series aside for a bit and was reminded of it when I wrote a post on LinkedIn, Truth is the First Casualty of War. This is Part 3, and it …

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It’s Long Past Time to Hold Our Elected Officials Accountable

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I’m shifting with this article to a more tactical focus on the 2022 midterm elections.  To be honest I, like many others, have become rather skeptical of the integrity of our election process, as both anecdotal and empirical evidence has continued to mount that suggests that U.S. election tampering not only reached an all-time high …

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Communism’s Dirty Secret (Capitalism’s and Democracy’s as Well)

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Communism’s Dirty Secret (and Capitalism’s and Democracy’s as Well) Communism is a utopian philosophy, summed up by the quote from Karl Marx in the figure above. Communism’s secret is that it requires virtue to implement. Its dirty secret is that communism does not teach, induce, or want virtue. But it requires virtue in two dimensions. …

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