Author - Walter F. Curran

Essays

Management, Labor, Government; 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

MANAGEMENT Once upon a time there was a big bad ogre called MANAGEMENT. MANAGEMENT controlled all the industrial jobs in what was considered the Industrial Revolution in America. It happened elsewhere as well but the evolutionary process here in America was decidedly different from the rest of the world. MANAGEMENT controlled who could work, where […]

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Theory of Good (National) Politics

There’s nothing but lamentations coming out of Washington these days. No elected official seems happy with anything or anyone except themselves. That is because elected officials in Washington think that the world, no, the entire solar system, revolves around them. Nicalaus Copernicus is spinning in his grave. I have a theory. One which may give […]

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Hate Crimes-Social Media, Symptom Not Cure

HATE: (noun)-Feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone or something).Synonyms of Hate:-loathe, detest, despise, abhor, execrate, abominate. CRIME:-An action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law. If you, the reader, don’t believe or understand the definitions of HATE and CRIME shown above, please stop […]

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The Death of Oaths

Every elected Federal official, The President, Vice President, members of the House of Representatives, US Senators, take an oath of office prior to serving. In addition, appointees to the US Supreme Court also take an oath of office. Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution specifies the Presidential oath. Article VI of the Constitution mandates […]

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Racism-The most talked about and least understood phenomenon

In the 1960s, civil rights protests were growing, with the focal point being the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on May 4, 1968. Once again, as in the Civil War, Americans fought with Americans, supposedly over a moral issue, the “unfairness” of racial inequality, a seemingly easy to understand principle. The understanding is […]

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