Category Archives: Poli-Philos

Elitist Defining Access to Elected Office

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Curtis Greco

The recent addition of Donald Trump to the rank and file of the GOP hopefuls has elicited an interest response the most interesting being those in the media who are appearing more elitist than one should expect or perhaps even be willing to tolerate.

Whether or not one likes Trump (or not) is not the issue however, it occurs to me that when his capacity/qualifications are dismissed based on whether or not he’s fit – the operative qualifier being that he’s never held an elected public office – then does it not give cause to wonder that if the present state of governance (in the country) is a direct reflection of those holding elected public office. Perhaps isn’t it the case that the existing standard is a well below-the-bar prerequisite.  Read more...

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Investigative Journalism – Issue-Critical!

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Curtis Greco

The ongoing inquiry into the events leading up to (and post) the assassination of Ambassador Stevens (Benghazi, Libya) labors under two (key) false assumptions:

(1) the existence of a willing & transparent fact-finding process

(2) that there is an element of insistence, an unseen force driving the process toward a faithful and fact-based outcome.

As with the case of Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton, to preserve and keep an informed public on guard and aware of the need to hold public officials to account for their wrongful acts one must never be willing to rely on the government to regulate/investigate itself. This is the function of the Press and precisely why they enjoy the privilege of special constitutional (Bill of Rights) distinction/protections.  Read more...

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Donald Trump’s GOP

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Curtis Greco

I believe that acts of insanity are necessary; they bring saneness in dealing with all things trivial! Ironically, Trump is exactly the type of character that can pull-off necessity precisely because no one expects him to be successful and also due to the fact that pundits will see him as having too much to lose however, here too, it is precisely because he has much at stake, and the fact that his nature loathes bureaucracies, that he will have a cannot-fail approach.

Here are the dangers:

(1) If he’s in purely to punish someone (Clinton and/or Bush) and has intention of going the distance.  Read more...

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Rachel Dolezal; The Expanses of Truth

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Curtis Greco

Role models have traditionally played an important function in the development of a child; even as adults we model contemporaries we find appealing or influential. The practicing of one’s Faith, for many, is a lifetime of modeling and hopefully into a state of grace that transfigures ones conscience we express throughout the human condition.

Rachel Dolezal’s modeling is something quite different. Hers is a modeling of selective-condition and though, in some ways, it is really no different than the various and synthetic assumptions made by others who express their preferences thru body modification(s), lifestyles and/or sub-culture affiliations. The underlying theme being, it seems, that an unsettled (internal) condition is driving an outward exhibition, the support of which requires a reformation to the boundaries of truth.  Read more...

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Trans Pacific Partnership – You’ll Need to Pass it to Learn What’s In It!

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Curtis Greco

Seems as if the errors of the past have become the standard to keep in DC as we discover the growing numbers of Congressmen (not unlike their brethren in the Senate) who are preparing for a pro-TPP vote without having bothered to read the agreement (those who’ve openly confessed: Rep  M. Walters (R-Ca), Rep P. Sessions (R-Tx), Rep S. Scalise (R-La). And quite possibly Rep K McCarthy (R-Ca) a Rep J. Boehner (R-Oh) both of whom who’ve refused to answer the did-you-read-the-proposed legislation question).  Read more...

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