“The greatest misconception about the American Revolution is that it was something that united Americans. It leaves out the reality that it was a civil war among Americans.” — Historian Alan Taylor The United States of America has never really been united. From its founding, our country has been a divided nation. That divide, which has been in existence for 250 years, has widened and deepened significantly during Trump’s second term in office, as he does things which … [Read more...]

  In 1776, with the issuance of the “Declaration of Independence” severing ties with Great Britain, our country’s founders positioned the United States of America to stand alone. Through the centuries and decades since then, the U.S. has evolved to become a nation that led by example, collaborated with partners around the world, and provided assistance to countries and people in need. In 2026, once again America stands alone. It stands alone because of the abandonment of its democratic … [Read more...]

  Managing AI development is a civilizational challenge. — Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO Nobody knows how humans can stay in control. — Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI” As we observed in our preceding blog, the United States is fast approaching the precipice where AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) could supplant human intelligence and make the rules for us, rather than us making the rules for it. The failure to recognize and to take the necessary actions to ensure that … [Read more...]

The Supreme Court’s ruling (in Learning Resources, Inc v. Trump) that President Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs is illegal evoked a range of responses from optimistic to pessimistic to pragmatic. Writing in The New York Times, David French opined that the decision “…may prove to be the most important Supreme Court decision this century.” French believes this may be the case because “the court blocked a monumental presidential power grab — one so big and so … [Read more...]

The Supreme Court’s ruling (in Learning Resources, Inc v. Trump) that President Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs is illegal evoked a range of responses from optimistic to pessimistic to pragmatic. Writing in The New York Times, David French opined that the decision “…may prove to be the most important Supreme Court decision this century.” French believes this may be the case because “the court blocked a monumental presidential power grab — one so big and so … [Read more...]

  “We just need every single person in this country to think about where we are and where we want to be. “To ask ourselves, ‘Is this it? Is this what 250 years has wrought on us?’” “I pray that that’s not the case.” Spencer Cox, Governor of Utah We join Governor Cox in praying, as he did in his statement made after political influencer and activist Charlie Kirk was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10. In this holiday season, we pray that this is a turning … [Read more...]

  Over the past decade or so, the term “cancel culture,” and its traveling companion “woke,” have been used by some on the right to label and vilify those on the left who have spoken out and taken actions contrary to their perspective. Media coverage has disclosed that there are some on the right who employ cancel culture tactics. Truth be told, they are much better practitioners of the cancel culture than those on the left. We made this point in a 2021 blog titled, “Do We Have … [Read more...]

  On this Thanksgiving Day, the concept of a united and unified America seems an alien one. In fact, it is almost impossible to contemplate. That is a line from our 2016 Thanksgiving Thoughts on Our Divided Nation blog. In our 2020 Thanksgiving Thoughts on our Divided Nation blog, we stated: How many times greater is that divide in 2020? It is unquantifiable. It is fair to say though that the divide is a chasm and the width and depth of that chasm is … [Read more...]

    The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Presidential Inaugural Address, 1937 Much has been written over the past several months about the gerrymandering of congressional districts in order to try to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections. As in the past, this gerrymandering is … [Read more...]

  On July 4, President Donald J Trump signed his signature piece of domestic legislation, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). There’s no doubt Trump thought the bill was beautiful at the time. Polling indicates, however, that the majority of Americans didn’t see it that way. CNN and KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) polls conducted in July, after the OBBB became law, showed more than six in 10 of those surveyed disapproved of it. The … [Read more...]