As year’s end approaches this week it is time to reflect on not only this year which will soon be gone but all others in which we have lived and experienced being human. My final entry in my 2015 CE personal journal will be made on New Year’s Eve and will mark the end of Volume 41…
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The nucleus of a winning message
We are still over three months away from Primary season for the 2016 General Election and sensory overload from candidate interviews and rhetoric seems to be the new normal. Turn on any cable news outlet or talk radio program and much of the time it is like trying to take a drink of water from a wide open fire hydrant. As is often…
Continue ReadingThe pre-primary project of reinvention
Evolution of the adult character, persona and political credentials is a fascinating phenomenon. The value of education is that it affords enlightened minds an opportunity to change opinions and embrace new values based on established evidence and reason. Experience likewise allows for the releasing of viewpoints, doctrines and policies that fail more than they succeed or outright do not…
Continue ReadingLosing fear of a much maligned label
The 2016 Presidential campaign has taken off and it is hard to keep track of who said what about which and to whom. There is one thing however that has not escaped my attention amid all the hoopla. There appears to be a number of newfound champions of the Middle Class among those vying for the GOP nomination. Apparently…
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Imagine if you will a camp meeting of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and pagans. Focus on that conceptual image for a moment and you can grasp the essence of the fifth annual Oklahoma Freethought Convention. FreeOK 2015 was held on Saturday, June 20th at the Cox Business Center in Tulsa. This is another of those…
Continue ReadingFundamental differences in leadership
Spring has arrived in an odd non-election year which means the major political parties in this, the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66, are preparing for County Convention in each of the Sooner State’s 77 counties. Being a civic minded soul and an officer in my local precinct, I have begun to think deeply…
Continue ReadingMandating a sacred civic duty
Last month I took time to acknowledge the lowest common denominators all people living on this planet share, those being death and taxes. Today in Cleveland, OH, President Obama promoted the idea of expanding those two of life’s certainties by one more, VOTING! Coming on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the events leading…
Continue ReadingAdvanced propaganda vs. the critical thinking imperative
As one who has sworn both an Oath of Enlistment and an Oath of Commissioning, let me say this about the USA and Oklahoma: My Country and my State, right or wrong. May they always be right. When they are wrong, may they be put right! Another week has passed in our illustrious state’s First Session…
Continue ReadingOur lowest common denominators
It matters not how diverse we as a people make ourselves in terms of the sort of politics we embrace, religion to which we subscribe, professions we train for and practice to the best of our ability, sports teams with which we align, music genre in which we indulge, clothing style we sport, dining cuisine we…
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