US Course Correction

August 15, 2011
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US course corrections submitted for your consideration. The danger of improper implication is always present.

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Pat Conroy

August 15, 2011
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My Reading Life by Pat Conroy has some interesting book reports in it. In Gone With the Wind, he tells the story but always against the backdrop of what the book meant to his mother and the women of the South. He later explores other books by how he was affected. In between is...

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Caveat Citizen

August 14, 2011
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Since the Great Cleansing, all regulations removed from government

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Election Prescriptions

August 12, 2011
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The US is hobbled by an election system which rewards extremism, right and left. Here are some steps that should be taken.

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Economic Thinking

August 12, 2011
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There are two levels at which the media presents economic thinking – surface and deep. Surface- headlines, sound bites. Audience – electorate that only pays scant attention to issues they can’t control. They are fully focused on getting through their own lives rather than focused on policy issues Does not address trade-offs or details....

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Political mandates

July 29, 2011
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The Republicans used their mandate as a trump card. The Democrats threw theirs into the discard pile.

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