Strategies and ideas for creating a better world
The election revealed the willingness of ‘normal folk’ to accept proffered attitudes and revealed the rapacity of captains of industry. It also suggested a deficiency of compassion and empathy. The promise to make the country great again had considerable appeal. The promise brought memories of a time before failures on the international front; memories of a … Read more
I emailed the following to 100 U.S. Senators and to 51 U.S. Representatives in the days before Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed a Joint Session of Congress on July 24, 2024: The nation’s Capital is my Capital and i strongly object to its welcoming a perpetrator of war crimes, heinous atrocities, and genocide. Israel’s Prime Minister … Read more
Damn! Every time i’ve turned to write about this topic in the last 30 years, i get frustrated because i have failed to make any progress convincing anyone to implement widespread use of parent skills training. Nobody has. This is not untested territory, people! While it may not be a panacea, it certainly is a … Read more
David Almandsmith Send this page’s link to your friends and to your representatives and voice your approval of this valuable vision. https://cogito.blog/require-paid-public-service-by-age-24/ Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute expressed multiple reasons why a program of mandatory public service is not only a bad idea, but is also infeasible. His paper is “Mandatory Universal National Service: … Read more
Underlying Concept: Government Support for Candidates Who Show Backing “Every member of Congress is guilty of fundraising on the government’s time and taxpayers’ dime.” “… our ‘representatives’ of the people spend as much as half their time raising money.” “I received a call from a sitting lawmaker, asking for a donation toward the $325,000 dollars he’s obligated … Read more
Establishing an identical minimum wage for EVERYWHERE in the United States will: shortchange workers in many urban areas where the costs of living are high; and it will unduly handicap local firms in their efforts to stay in business where local economies are depressed. Instead, we should “index” the local minimum wage to the LOCAL … Read more
The Foundation for Critical Thinking has an excellent definition of “Critical Thinking”: [T]he intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. Note that the above definition is no less accurate when we … Read more