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Completing Civil Rights: Ending Structural Racism by Removing Race from Institutional Data and Policy

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on February 25, 2021 by Gordon L. AndersonFebruary 25, 2021

The United States has seen the evolution of civil rights from the abolitionists before the founding to the Civil Rights legislation in the 1960s that gave full legal equality to all races. These civil rights are negative rights: equal protection … Continue reading →

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The Earth Belongs to the Living: A Supermajority for a Statue in Charlottesville

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on August 15, 2017 by Gordon L. AndersonAugust 16, 2017

Principled Approaches to Displaying Public Monuments The Charlottesville riots are the result of a poor decision process by the Charlottesville City Council. The right-wing protestors, the left-wing counter-protesters, and the statements by the Mayor, President Trump, and many news reporters … Continue reading →

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Ending Drug Price Gouging through Patent Law Reform

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on August 9, 2017 by Gordon L. AndersonAugust 10, 2017

Drug Price Gouging A few days ago my dermatologist recommended an over-the-counter powder and a prescription cream for athletes’ foot. I bought the powder for about $5 at a local store, then went to the pharmacy who said that 48g … Continue reading →

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Playing with a Full Deck: Trump Tweets, Tarot Cards, and Creative Transformation

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on June 22, 2017 by Gordon L. AndersonJune 23, 2017

Unexpected Outbursts Generate Unconventional Reactions President Donald Trump’s tweets and “Trumpisms” have confused many people in both political parties and the media because they are not conventional modes of political or rational discourse. Rather, they tend to be unexpected short … Continue reading →

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Restructuring Security Agencies to Respond to Threats

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on May 26, 2017 by Gordon L. AndersonMay 26, 2017

The Homeland Security News Wire report that “U.K. Security Services missed several opportunities to stop Manchester suicide bomber” is eerily reminiscent of the failure of the FBI in the U.S. to respond to opportunities to stop the 9/11 attackers. Readers … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court Justices Should Not Be Partisan Presidential Appointments

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on April 10, 2017 by Gordon L. AndersonApril 10, 2017

The bitter partisan politics reflected in the invocation of the “nuclear option” in the ratification of the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by Donald Trump reflects the unraveling of machinery of U.S. governance with political parties embedded … Continue reading →

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Will Trump’s Tax Policy Serve the Middle Class?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on February 9, 2017 by Gordon L. AndersonFebruary 10, 2017

The U.S. Tax system is a tangled web of laws and regulations. Some serve US citizens, while others increasingly serve the selfish interests of powerful groups and government officials at the expense of a growing economy and thriving Middle Class. … Continue reading →

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Ending Corruption by Limiting Not-for-Profit Pay to the Median Income

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on September 14, 2016 by Gordon L. AndersonFebruary 14, 2017

Not-for-profit corporations have long been used as a vehicle to evade taxes rather than to primarily serve as a charity or a public service. From TV evangelists and hospital directors building lavishly furnished buildings to the wealthy establishing non-profits to … Continue reading →

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Why Removing Party from Ballots would Improve Government

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on August 2, 2016 by Gordon L. AndersonAugust 3, 2016

On April 25, 2012, I proposed a new election system to ensure that political candidates were qualified and that special interests did not control the outcome of elections–two of the major problems that result from the process in which votes … Continue reading →

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The “Ten Commandments” for Groups

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on April 11, 2016 by Gordon L. AndersonApril 12, 2016

In the preface to the 1960 edition of Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), Reinhold Niebuhr wrote: The central thesis was, and is, that the Liberal Movement, both religious and secular, seemed to be unconscious of the basic difference between … Continue reading →

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