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    Category: Government

    The scope of organized authority ranges from family, through neighborhoods to municipalities, states, countries, and global governments.

    Fake News and Free Speech
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    Fake News and Free Speech

    Robert Hamill 22 Nov 202228 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    Free speech does not cover statements if those statements cause harm. Fake News harms us. It stops the government from meeting our goals.

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    Abortion Rights in US Legal System
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    Abortion Rights in US Legal System

    Robert Hamill 10 Jul 202228 Apr 2024Leave a comment

    Should we be independent nations? Some supporting individual decision-making. Others letting the state decide personal matters.

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    Anti-Vax Logic
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    Anti-Vax Logic

    Robert Hamill 26 Sep 202129 May 2022Leave a comment

    Accept the vaccine, a bad side effect may occur. Your fault for choosing. Refuse the vaccine, they'll never pin any covid-19 deaths on you. No…

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    Crime and Order
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    Crime and Order

    Robert Hamill 3 Jan 202126 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    With the improved skilled workforce, the United States economy will flourish under the stimulus of fixing and managing the ecology of our piece of the…

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    Do you worry about unintended consequences of Trump’s single-thread solutions?

    Robert Hamill 4 Nov 202030 May 2022Leave a comment

    Trump has three main threads as I see it. He stresses different notes at different times, always emphasizing that his skill, rather that details, will…

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    Before and After the Election
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    Before and After the Election

    Robert Hamill 7 Oct 202013 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    If Trump loses, watch how quickly Republicans forget their trillions for bailouts and insist on budget discipline forbids Main Street assistance.

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    Populism in 2020
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    Populism in 2020

    Robert Hamill 17 Sep 202030 May 2022Leave a comment

    Reliance on belief only leads us astray when we must ignore facts. Facts are correctives to flawed beliefs.

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    Trump Escapes until November
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    Trump Escapes until November

    Robert Hamill 14 Jul 202030 May 2022Leave a comment

    Trump fires opponents, pardons acolytes, and buys favors.

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    The Social Contract, Crime and Lack of Opportunity
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    The Social Contract, Crime and Lack of Opportunity

    Robert Hamill 8 Feb 202026 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    If our leaders fail to address the lack of opportunity for the poor, they must accept blame for a crime rate that they find intolerable.

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    It’s the truth, but …
    Government

    It’s the truth, but …

    Robert Hamill 6 Aug 201931 Dec 2022Leave a comment

    How can telling the truth not benefit decision-making? When only a selective truth is told, with many related true facts are ignored. Listeners readily make…

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      Dare We Change?

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    Measure of Daily Life

    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)