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Make sure you read the article below the Ghion Cast (YouTube clip) as the words below the video are more meaningful by magnitudes for what I write is closer to my heart than when I speak. Words are worth a thousand pictures in this way. Nuance. This is the one word that radicals and demagogues
Adam Smith. Out of all the people, it was Adam Smith–the father of capitalism–who wrote about the excesses of capitalism and warned what would happen when humanity is replaced by avarice and greed. When I was in South Carolina a year and a half ago, I picked up a book by Adam Smith that had
The chickens always come home to roost. What goes on overseas–the injustices and the horrors our immoral military-financial laden government commits in the name of Democracy and freedom ad nauseum–has repercussions that eventually blow back across the Atlantic. The founders of the United States warned about the dangers of entangling ourselves in the affairs of
The truth is murdered by a million liars pretending to be truth tellers. This is why it is so hard to decipher fact from fantasy; the very authorities who are supposed to be the guardians of truth are instead disseminating more lies than there are sand grains in the Sahara desert. We live in a
Today is Army day; a day set aside to honor the sacrifice of those who put on the uniform and paid the most expensive price as they laid their lives and gave of themselves in order to serve their nation. Army day was conceived on May 1st, 1928 as a response to May day but
Those who come around pretending to care for you don’t necessarily have an intention to help you. I write this in light of what I have observed over the years and the mistakes I have made in my own life w. Let me preface this article by saying that I am hoping that all sides
Isn’t it time we had an adult discussion about race and identity in America? How much longer are we going to let this wound fester and keep letting demagogues and firebrands on all sides use pains of people to enrich themselves and divide the rest of us? A politician not too long ago got elected
Imagine for a minute if the horrors of the holocaust and the terrors unleashed at Buchenwald and Auschwitz were retold through a new blockbuster Hollywood movie. But instead of the victims looking like the Jews in Europe that were brutalized by the Nazi crime machine, imagine if the lead actors and the heroins of the
Ever wonder how an entire nation can be hoodwinked into wars or a mass of people can be led by the nose as they give allowance to injustice if not join into the fracas? No seriously, how is it the people of the United States went along as Franklin Delano Roosevelt unconscionably rounded up all
The lives we choose to lead have consequences in this life and the next. Those who choose virtue over selfishness are rewarded as they leave behind a legacy of goodness as they are remembered for their deeds. Those who choose greed over generosity will be remembered in time for their deviancy and the dishonor they
