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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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The Best Policy Ideas of 2016 Presidential Candidates

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on January 18, 2016 by Gordon L. AndersonJanuary 30, 2016

The 2016 Presidential Election has raised a number of good policy ideas for the improvement of the United States society and government. Unfortunately, there is no single candidate that endorses all of the best ideas, and, even more unfortunately, every … Continue reading →

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Is Race or Student Motivation the Highest Correlate to Student Failure?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on November 25, 2015 by Gordon AndersonDecember 2, 2015

In many policy discussions about the “achievement gap” between whites and minorities in  public schools, racism and insufficient public funding of schools are frequently given as the primary reason for the gap. But is blaming race or schools getting to … Continue reading →

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The Nobel Peace Prize Should not be Seen as an Endorsement of the Arab Spring

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on October 15, 2015 by Gordon AndersonOctober 15, 2015

Oppression is Bad, but Anarchy is Worse “Were people given a choice between a functioning dictatorship and a failing or failed state, the dictatorship would often be seen as the lesser evil.”[1] The Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 was given … Continue reading →

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A Government Shielded from the People

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on June 4, 2015 by Gordon AndersonJune 4, 2015

The United States was established to be “a government of the people” and, in Abraham Lincoln’s day, that was still largely true. However, today individual citizens have very little influence over legislation or government expenditures in the United States. Political … Continue reading →

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The Decline of the “Middle Class” and the Rise of Industrial Feudalism

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 Posted on February 5, 2015 by Gordon AndersonFebruary 5, 2015

Quotation marks are put around “middle class” because it is a concept variously defined by politicians who mean very different things. When a Democrat refers to “middle class,” it tends to refer to wage or income level. If you listen … Continue reading →

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