https://www.amazon.com/Power-Worshippers-Dangerous-Religious-Nationalism/dp/1635573432 While the number of religious nationalists may not be overwhelming their influence on American politics, and access to those in the White House, is a stunning political achievement. Some may envision evangelicals as fighting a culture war against modernity, but the movement described in Katherine Stewart’s book, ‘The Power Worshippers’, is so much more …

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https://www.amazon.com/Cost-Loyalty-Dishonesty-Failure-Military-ebook/dp/B07V3N9HYB It’s tough to accept hard truths, but it’s also deadly and bewildering to continue to accept that the most well financed military in the history of the world has not had a true victory, while being involved in many conflicts, in the last 75 years. Why is this? Where do we begin? The quality …

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https://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Camilla-Bartlett/dp/0374238715 There are so many unknowns when it comes to Russia and its relations with the United States.  Quick quiz: friend or foe? Democracy or dictatorship?  Who can tell from the glowing words that President Trump has spoken about Vladimir Putin.  He appreciates his strong leadership, while others equate his rule to a strongman approach …

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https://www.amazon.com/Loaded-Disarming-History-Second-Amendment/dp/0872867234 In many ways, gun adherents and those who seek to control their use in America have something in common. They misinterpret the true initial intent of the Second Amendment. Most commonly we hear that it was adopted as way to insure that Americans could protect their homes or to allow them to hunt or …

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https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Paradise-American-Alastair-Gee/dp/1324005149 Fifty-two large fires are now burning 748,987 acres in the western United States, with many proving to be very difficult to contain.  The number that have burned by this time of year is the largest in a decade, with 33,000 fires searing over 1.9 million acres by July 12.     In California, fire is …

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http://nationalmarriageproject.org/about/staff/ In 2018, marriage rates in America began falling to their lowest rates since the government kept those statistics dating back to 1867. And, yet, divorce rates, too, have been dropping for the better part of a decade. So what are we to make of these trends? Perhaps, the unions that are forming are fewer …

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https://www.amazon.com/Future-Asian-Parag-Khanna/dp/150119626X The 20th Century was the American Century. However, there are many signs that the world in this period is moving away from our influence and gravitating to the diverse, technocratically advanced countries of Asia. Much of this started with Japan and its re-birth after WWII and China’s modernization after Mao. However, given the the …

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http://billwhiteauthor.com/ James Madison, the architect of the written Constitution, said that our nation’s founders developed limits on debt that would be ‘clearly visible to the eye of the ordinary politician’. That was then and this is now. While we lived by that well-defined principle for the first 200 years of existence, America has begun to …

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https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Bryant-Park-Revitalizing-Cities/dp/1978802439 Many of us can remember when downtown was the bustling hub of activity in our communities. As the song of the same name suggested ‘you could forget all your troubles, forget all your cares’. However, as highways cut through central business districts and people began to use their cars to shops at malls on …

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http://www.danrayburn.com/ Have you been binge watching like so many in our society in this stay at home moment? Do you have a favorite service or did you sign up for free trials? And do you churn, by that we mean stay with a service for several months, drop it and return when there’s something that …

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