I had just finished working out and was leaving the Senior Center, when I noticed a woman reading a Time magazine article. On its cover read, What Would Lincoln Do? I thought the article referred to the Congressional Gun Control Debate, but it didn’t turn out to be that at all. His thoughts about gun control would have indeed been a good question to ask President Abraham Lincoln because within the answer to the question resides a moral imperative,
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On December 6, 2013, the day after Nelson Mandela’s death at 95 years of age, Tracy Conner, Staff Writer for NBC News.com website wrote an article for WORLD NEWS entitled ‘He is now at peace’: Nelson Mandela dead at 95.
Conner mentioned “Nelson Mandela, the revered South African anti-apartheid icon who spent 27 years in prison, led his country to democracy and became its first black president, died Thursday at home.”
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Yes, cooperation not competition is important in today’s political discourse. That’s because of the insidious nature that competition taints political discussions. Whether or not we view political debate as being one of cooperation vs. competition is particularly relevant to what our government sets as its priority in serving the American people. Right now the model has been one of competition ever since we had political parties. Unquestionably, it’s time for the paradigm to change. Instead of the destructive and unhelpful model of competition that our system of government revolves around today,
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