We don't need a war on drugs or a war on crime or a war on poverty. What we need is a war on complacency. (August...
Read moreA newscaster on Fox News says "Stay tuned for a story on what the government is doing to protect you". A reasonable story? Absolutely. One of...
Read more"A Los Angeles-based market research company hired by Paine reported that in 2002, 41 percent of those asked said they planned to observe September 11th in...
Read more"The freedoms and privileges afforded every citizen in our democracy are unwittingly being threatened by the very citizens they were designed to benefit....
Read moreThe "Silent Majority"? There is no "Silent Majority". It's an oxymoron. In a democracy, when the majority is silent, they are the minority. (May 2003)
Read moreMarch 5, 2002 was election day. On that day, the bodies of a number of Americans, who had died in a “fire fight” in Afghanistan trying to recover the...
Read moreThe purpose of the American Blog is to highlight and discuss matters related to being effective citizens in a democracy.
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