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USA, VA, Arlington. Gravestones at Arlington National Cemetary.
Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership

Memorial Day: Connecting the Past with the Present

Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership
The Civil War was America’s most costly war with some 360,222 Union and 258,000 Confederate lives lost. Many historians put the death toll higher, but regardless, the number of Civil War casualties exceeds the nation’s loss in all its other wars combined -- the two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnamese Wars and subsequent wars right up through conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Read More ›
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Distant view of the gold dome capital building in Olympia, Washington, USA
Hans Zeiger
May 10, 2020
Citizen Leadership

State Legislature Should Have Stronger Oversight Role During Emergencies

Hans Zeiger
May 10, 2020
Citizen Leadership
In recent weeks, many citizens have written to me requesting that the Legislature take action to address the COVID-19 crisis. The reality is that the Legislature’s formal power to act in this crisis is limited; it is the governor who has broad authority during times of emergency. As we look to the future, the Legislature must have a much stronger role during emergencies. Read More ›
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woman worker wearing mask
Tom Shakely
April 21, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Human Exceptionalism

China, the Virus, and the Imperative to Build for Tomorrow

Tom Shakely
April 21, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Human Exceptionalism
Marc Andreessen's "It's Time To Build" is a hopeful cri de coeur in this time of pandemic. Americans, and American elite leadership specifically, need what strikes me as essentially a spiritual awakening, and Andreessen speaks to that in his own way by pointing out that an ugly aspect of American life that this virus has revealed is a sort of cultural impotence. Read More ›
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Photo by David Mark via Pixabay
Michael Egnor
March 19, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life

Upstairs into the Plague

Michael Egnor
March 19, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life

I was driving into work this morning and I hit the traffic jam. Every morning at about 6:30 am the traffic begins to back up on the highway leading into my medical center. It’s the morning shift — hundreds of nurses and clerks and aides and orderlies and housekeepers bleary-eyed and guzzling Starbucks and they wait to enter the parking Read More ›

Bruce Chapman
February 15, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Discovery Institute

The 2020 Census is Here and it’s Counting on You!

Bruce Chapman
February 15, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Discovery Institute

In mid-March you will receive a letter from the US Government preparing you to reply to the 2020 Decennial Census. Therewith starts a large series of changes, from numbers for each state in the U.S. House of Representatives to the allocation of $1.5 Trillion in federal aid to states and localities. The 2020 Census also will give us a new Read More ›

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Bruce Chapman
December 14, 2019
Citizen Leadership

Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them

Bruce Chapman
December 14, 2019
Citizen Leadership
When frustrated by election results, it’s useful to remember why it’s hard to live with politicians but even harder to live without them. Bruce K. Chapman’s Politicians: The Worst Kind of People to Run the Government, Except for All the Others offers warm wit seasoned with some sharp-edged anecdotes. He reminds us that “a good political life, in the spirit of the Constitution, aims at a ‘more perfect union,’ not a perfect one.” Read More ›
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Scott S. Powell
November 23, 2019
Citizen Leadership

Is America on a Slippery Slope Toward Becoming a Banana Republic?

Scott S. Powell
November 23, 2019
Citizen Leadership
Who would have ever thought the United States could lose its way and find itself on a slippery slope to becoming a banana republic in which political power is typically determined by coups rather than elections? But it appears many in the Democratic Party are willing to go down this road and risk the nation’s continuity and stability in a desperate effort to regain power and control. Since there is simply no greater crime against the United States, its Constitution and its people than subverting the government that is duly elected by the people, Americans need to clearly remind Washington that the legitimacy of our government comes exclusively from the people. Think about it... why should Democrats in Congress be ignoring their legislative responsibilities and wasting their time and the nation’s scarce resources with impeachment proceedings less than a year away from the next presidential election? And why would Democrats think impeachment a wise course to follow, particularly after putting the country through nearly two years of the Mueller investigation? Read More ›