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To Lie or Not to Lie?
According to scholars, as living things evolved they developed deeply entrenched characteristics to avoid becoming victims and to succeed as predators. This impulse to deceive enables survival, and those that are unable to fool their predators or their victims die, … Continue reading
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Confirmation Bias
In legislative deliberations, Congress increasingly rejects scientific findings in favor of persuasive lobbying positions and political dogma. This behavior is reported in their most recent work, It’s Even Worse than It Looks by American Enterprise Institute’s Norman Ornstein and Brookings’ … Continue reading
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Lead or Get Out of the Way!
Can America still compete? Although the United States has led the world in agricultural and industrial production, we’re now threatened by global competitors as science and technology, freer markets and cheap labor make foreign economies grow. Fortunately, embedded at the … Continue reading
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Tagged competitiveness, current-events, diversity, innovation, leadership, politics, religion
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Are We Exceptional or Ordinary?
At the core of our Constitution lies justification for what conservatives call “American exceptionalism”—an obligation to deliver freedom and democracy to the world. This ideology, created “under God,” has assumed new clout with the union between political and Christian fundamentalism—a … Continue reading
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Solutions Versus Slurs
The United States, built by men and women from diverse cultural backgrounds, is among the most innovative nations in history. Our cultural narrative includes the conception that we’re a “melting pot,” folding different customs into a system of practices that … Continue reading
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Sorting fact from belief
Congress has cried “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war. Driven by ideology and dogma the Republican and Democratic Parties are tearing at each other’s throats and eviscerating reason from the body politic. Compromise is treated as a disease … Continue reading
High Streams: Sorting fact from belief 