The Easter celebration is the essence of Christian belief.
Modern day Christians may place too much emphasis on Christmas, which commemorates Jesus’ birth, over Easter and Christ’s Resurrection. It is the Resurrection that is central to Christian theology of hope and forgiveness. Mankind is reborn and saved by Christ’s Passion, Resurrection, and his ultimate Ascension into Heaven.
How do people separate their beliefs from their politics? This has become another point of contention in our secular world. …
After the COVID relief package that Biden and the Democrats got through Congress, the president is now ready to tackle infrastructure.
And that is infrastructure in its broadest meaning which includes improving our “human capital.” It is about time that we, as a nation, do exactly that. We are falling apart both literally and figuratively. My generation, the boomers, has allowed a self-indulgent ethos to blossom and infect our children and grandchildren. America is far from the “Greatest Generation” of our parents’ self-sacrifice.
This bankrupt credo has allowed us to live in a past that has no relation to the…
With all its wealth and military prowess, the United States does not look after the general well-being of the American people very well.
The Social Progress Index ranks 163 countries on quality-of-life issues. It uses research from Nobel-winning economists to do its ranking using 50 different metrics. The index began in 2011, and since then, the only three countries that have slipped in those ratings are Brazil, Hungary, and the United States. We have slipped from 19th to 28th. We now are between Greece and Singapore.
We rank first in the quality of our universities and 91st in the quality…
In my last piece, I wrote recommending reforms to the executive branch. Congress also needs to be reformed. The executive branch has become so powerful because Congress has not exercised the powers it has as delineated in the Constitution. This is not how the Founders intended that institution to operate.
I made some recommendations regarding a mandatory release of tax returns for ten years for all elected Congress people besides the president and vice-president. However, there needs to be much more. Term limit are especially important. The Senate should be limited to two terms and the House also to two…
Our system of Governance in the United States is broken.
Most of that is due to our political party system and the corruption that it breeds. Attaining and maintaining power has become the guiding principle of politicians. The accumulation of power is not to enact policy but rather to retain control for its own sake. Curbing the undue influence of political parties is the best way to regain political sanity.
There definitely needs to be a reform of political parties. One of the best places to start are reforms to the executive branch. …
Would you believe that both former President Trump and President Biden agree on something? It is the old bromide of “Buy American”.
Trump’s economic policy was a belief in mercantilism that had not been in vogue since the 17th century. His tariff man schtick ended up increasing our balance of trade deficit with China and paying subsidies to American farmers to make up for lost business.
Biden’s local preference edict is more ingrained in 1930s smokestack policy and the old AFL-CIO affiliation between the Democrats and the supposed working man. Mr. …
The American government tends to make economic policy in the worse possible way. An example of this is the current COVID-19 moratorium on evictions.
Economically, it could not be less effective for renters, commercial owners, or our entire U.S. society. In the name of compassion, the government is interfering with commercial contracts between owners and renters. It is doing great economic damage to commercial real estate investment. Ultimately, since it isn’t a forgiveness on the debt accruing but rather a moratorium, government fiat is kicking the reckoning day down the road.
Tenants will find themselves owing more money that they…
Our Congress is broken!
It has been some time since it functioned as the Framers intended. Serious people no longer want to be there. Many who believe they have been elected to pass laws and hold hearings of substance are quickly cured of those ideas. The only thing that matters is how many appearances a congressman or senator has on cable news.
At one time, a successful legislator passed bills and brought home money for his state or district. They did constituent work such as making sure a veteran received his benefits or fixed a problem for a senior with…
Nowhere in the Constitution are executive orders mentioned. Yet they have become the way our presidents govern.
President Biden is doing exactly what his predecessor, Donald Trump, did. And it is the same thing that Barak Obama, George Bush, and every president since Woodrow Wilson has done. The 20th and 21st century presidencies have decided to govern, to some degree, by executive order instead of doing the hard work of convincing Congress to pass their legislation.
The presidency has become an elected dictatorship. The flawed Electoral College system has been one cause of this but not the precipitating factor in…
We have heard much about Section 230( see here) protecting internet providers from liability for what is posted on their sites.
In my opinion, Section 230 is a double edge sword. It has allowed platforms such as Medium to be able to have authors publish without pre-approval. This goes for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and any other social media site. There is no way that billions of people could be users without that ability.
While allowing for the free flow of information and opinion on these platforms, they have contributed to dangerous misinformation being circulated as truth. We tend to…
Thomas F Campenni
Currently lives in Stuart Florida and former City Commissioner. His career has been as a commercial real estate owner, broker and manger in New York City.
