Empathy is absolutely essential if you value the human spirit and all of humankind. In fact, without it, it’s impossible to experience that oneness that every religion teaches is the universal reality that contains all life and God and the infinity of space. Empathy is that capacity to experience our connection with each other and all living beings. Empathy is the sentient equivalent of gravity: it’s what binds us together. Any movement concerned with human rights, the health of the planet,
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At this writing, Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead is just shy of three million votes, a number the size of the city of Chicago, the state of Nevada, Kuwait. She has won more votes than any white man has ever gotten, win or lose. Barack Obama is the only president to receive more votes than Mrs. Clinton, including the one the Electoral College is expected to confirm on December 19. In fact, the difference between the number of votes for her and those for Mr.
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In 1787, the Constitution was being framed in strict secrecy. Nearing the end, some citizens gathered outside Constitutional Hall, anxious to find out what had been produced behind closed doors. Immediately upon the framers’ emergence from the hall, as the story goes, a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Straight away, Franklin said, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
When I first heard this story,
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On May 29, 2013, Colin Fletcher, writer for the examiner.com website, wrote an article entitled: Gov. Christie performed his job with class and dignity. Fletcher was impressed with Gov. Christie’s cordiality towards Pres. Obama when he revisited the Jersey shore again, when, seven months ago Super-storm Sandy severely punished the famous coastline.
The question is whether or not Governor Christie’s warmth and geniality is the real thing and represents a prototype of things to come in the world of politics whereby the chasm between the Democrats and the Republicans disappears,
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Clearly, using political sequestration as a political maneuver to stimulate political compromise would definitely be contrary to what our Founding Fathers would have envisioned as to how political parties should try to resolve differences. That’s because doing that runs contrary to their concept of ‘public virtue’ which was one of the four Freedom Foundations that the writing of our Constitution was founded upon. Public virtue speaks to the need a democratic republic has for its members to voluntarily sacrifice personal benefit for something greater than themselves.
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In order for our government to meet the expectations of the citizenry it serves, our politicians need to follow the two freedoms under which our Constitution was written, called private and public virtue. They haven’t been doing that of late. As a result, over the years, our system of government has become broken, resulting in the needs of many Americans not being met.
Private virtue involves your personal integrity which urges you to follow your heart and your moral compass,
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The main purpose of the Constitution is to establish the basic rights of all American citizen. The Constitution of the United States of America defines a framework for the country’s law and order. Any law that is proposed must not violate the 27 amendments, for in those amendments are the sacred rights that protects what our American citizens may or may not do. They are free to do whatever they wish, as long as it doesn’t violate any of the various amendments that are listed as part of in the Constitution,
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As the title for this blog suggests, the essence of life is represented in the integrity of individuals. For, according to our Founding Fathers, they feel it is one of the most important virtue our country can have and it’s one of the foundations upon which our Constitution was written and our country was founded upon. John Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and second president of the United States, said that without preserving our national integrity our democracy and republic will not survive,
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Because of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama stated we must take steps to assure a tragedy such as that should never happen again. In order to assure that never happens, initially he stated we should not “politicize” the gun control debate. In a later presentation, when he addressed the Newtown School shooting families and responders who attended a vigil in Newtown, he asked his audience, “What choice do we have? Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage,
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It’s obvious that I, like so many other Americans, feel like our system of government is broken. The reason it’s so dysfunctional is that Congress and the president are not representing the people, but rather the political party to which they are a member. This is all done at the expense of not serving the people through the Constitution that they swore to serve and protect.
As American citizens, who pay their taxes and obey the laws of the land,
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