Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
When I was a young, impressionable lad, a visitor to my Sunday School class gave us a little inspirational talk meant to elevate a small group of impressionable young boys. I will never forget what he said about selecting friends. He said, “Seek out people who are honest, humble, and of good character.” This one…
While Trump befriends America’s enemies, his tariff wars convert friends into enemies. The headlines are filled with the growing animosity from Canada, Mexico, and Europe. However, let’s not forget our friends in Asia. Japan is currently selling U.S. Treasury bonds in reaction to Trump’s tariff war. So, why do you think we should be concerned?…
Ostensively, Elon Musk purchased Twitter because he thought it was silencing the voices of his right-wing causes. Elon said he believed in “radical free speech,” meaning no voice should be silenced. He noted that Twitter management and the Deep State were violating the sacred American tenet of free speech. He apparently had already sided with…
A quote from a Texas medical doctor: The doctor did not mince words. “When nobody wants to train in Texas, as the physicians get older and retire, there will be no ob-gyns in the state,” she told me. “And that’s when you’ll really see maternal mortality go up.” At the time, I was reporting on…
This post was written on December 6, 2024 Why is our Country in Chaos? Long before the 2024 election, I wondered why the American psyche was experiencing a dumpster fire. Friends and relatives stopped talking to each other. Some Americans seemed so foreign to me that I thought either they or I had entered an…
Preface While contemplating the divided states of America, I discovered an interesting theory of political behavior called the horseshoe theory. This horseshoe thesis helps explain why American centrists have lost political battles to fringe fanatics over the last 25 years, although 60 to 80 percent of Americans are centrists. I will attempt to place this…
What do these two Renaissance gentlemen have in common besides their ruffled white collars and facial hair? Although one was a politician and the other a scientist, they both studied and experimented with the forces of alignment, repulsion, and attraction. Introduction Are magnetism and politics analogous? We have all watched a magnet “magically” attract metal…
Let’s forget politics for a moment and think about physics. William Gilbert and Galileo Galilei are regarded as the two founders of experimental physical science. The common scholarship of their time was largely non-experimental. Scholars read Greek and Latin texts (including the Bible) to discover the ancient “truth” by logic and inference. “Truth” was considered…
Political figures and movements seek to attract others to get them to support their movement. They seek to rally compliant followers to their political magnetic pole just as the poles of Gilbert’s magnets force compliant metal objects to align their electrons in the same direction. An effective political leader or movement persuades agreeable and susceptible…
The French philosopher Jean Pierre Faye was the first to develop the horseshoe magnet theory of politics in 2002. He proposed that the extreme left and extreme right were not on opposite ends of the political continuum. He called our attention to the fact that both poles were equally far from the political center but…