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April 23, 2017

Our Quarrel with Russia

  • Freedom

For 200 years the Russian Government has been more interested in threatening, misleading, confusing, and destabilizing effective governments, than caring for it’s own good people.

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January 1, 2017

My New Years Thought

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A friend asked me “How can you remain so optimistic, when we live in a world led by megalomaniacs, haters, and liars?”

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November 27, 2016

Citizens United and the Forgotten America

  • Democracy

I have never heard anyone say this election was about Trump, nationalism or rejection of America’s role in the world.

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November 1, 2016

Will young people vote in 2016 ?

  • Democracy

It seems cruel that the future of twenty year olds should be cast by older people that want to live in the past.

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October 16, 2016

America’s Saul

  • Democracy

If we elect Hilary Clinton, we can fix the problem in four years. If we elect Trump, like Saul, the damage may take us 40 years to clean up.

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July 27, 2016

Lies ….. and the politics of fear

  • Freedom

Nobody is benefiting more from American world leadership than Americans.

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June 16, 2016

What happened to Virtue ?

  • Democracy

Voters in America and Romania would be wise to heed these warnings

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May 17, 2016

Two votes …… for two completely different purposes

  • Democracy

If we want clean air, clean hospitals and ambulances with working defibrillators we must stop trusting political parties to choose our elected representatives.

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April 28, 2016

A blessing that proved true

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In April 2006, a friend, Dave Peterson, gave me this blessing. Today, ten years later, I have the privilege to share the fruit of this blessing at Crossroads in Cincinnati. It holds true for all of us.

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February 12, 2016

America is great, Today

  • Freedom

We have a disinformation war in America – a scare tactic led by our political parties and politicians. It is sad to return home and hear “I can make America great again” from Presidential candidates. America is great today.

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About the Author

About me

Over last decade I have made over 100 round trips between Romania and America. Some consider me a mentor, usually I am the student. In the small voices, on the eastern edge of the western world, I have heard words that might help replace barriers with bridges. And make a little more sense of the struggles we face.

Inclusive Principles of Parliamentary Democracy

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Oak Trees of Freedom

The First -- Representative Democracy

The Foundation of Democracy is the right of the people to elect a fellow citizen to represent their interests. People do not elect a political party, they elect an individual Representative to serve them.

The Second -- Balance of Power

Democracy is social science that acknowledges human weakness - that people are selfish and power corrupts. Societies with broad based prosperity create 'check and balances" between independent institutions.

The Third -- Lady Justice

The Statue of Liberty is the symbol of Democracy. Standing tall above New York harbor is Lady Justice - the same Lady that was the great moral force in the first Democracy over 2000 years ago.

The Fourth -- Empowerment

Prosperous democracies are NOT built on attracting foreign businesses with cheap labor or sophisticated economic policies. They are built on investing in people. They help each citizen grow into the unique individual they were created to be. It is called ‘Individual Empowerment'.

The Fifth - National Parks

National Parks are a symbol that the beautiful most treasures of a country belong to all the citizens - not the wealthy. The quality of roads, trails, and sheltors are measure of democratic DNA.