State of the Union
January 30, 2006 by Bob Christensen
I try to read and watch the news. I read online articles and various publications. It is tough to remember the claims and details of all the articles so I find myself editorializing and summarizing information oftentimes without being able to cite the specific facts or source of information. I acknowlege that these are my beliefs or understandings. By doing so, I hope to encourage discussion and discourse.
Encouraging discussion and discourse is a good thing. Encouraging investigation into facts is a good thing. We are strong as a nation because we read, we talk, we learn and listen. And we should never be so proud so as not to listen and learn from our mistakes.
Tomorrow we will hear from our President about the State of the Union. I am going to be listening and learning. I probably will be talking about it. That’s what we should be doing in a free country.
We are Expecting Too Much From Government
January 8, 2006 by Bob Christensen
With the guilty plea last week from Jack Abramoff we are now facing weeks if not years of press coverage of corruption, payoffs and lies of our elected representatives. Is this unexpected in light of what we have experienced in recent years from politicians of all political parties?
Do we really expect that real change will come in this country from our elected officials who march to office singing “I owe, I owe”? How do we effect real change in this country within the electoral process?
How about real people that want to leave this world a better place start talking, writing, inventing, formulating, digesting, synthesizing and creating the ideas that will shape the next generation? We can do it. It won’t be coming from our elected officials, for sure.
