We have become fluent in our language skills at blaming everyone, complaining, and screaming about how everything is unfair. Meanwhile, we have lost our verbal ability when it comes to words such as, "Please," "Thank you," and "I'm sorry.
Politics
The Silence of Freedom
What is Political Correctness? It is a form of tyranny that attempts to silence all voices of opposition to one’s ideas, opinions, and forms of expression. It is the enemy of free speech. It is the brainchild of a selfish power hungry few to protect themselves from values, absolute truth, and being confronted by truth. … Continue reading The Silence of Freedom
National Crisis Demand Leadership
Leadership must look beyond the current flame of the moment and look at the factors that produced this inflammation in society.
Is There A Cause?
We must understand that oppression comes in forms more than whips, shackles, and chains, but also in the form of economic and political enslavement.
Victim or Contributor
The health of a nation demands that the majority of its citizens be contributors and not takers. When a disproportionate amount of constituents have a victim mindset, it paves the way for repressive regimes and loss of freedom. If the leaders of a country, and the citizens who support them, collectively feel like victims of … Continue reading Victim or Contributor
Vision Fulfilled or Getting the Credit?
More gets accomplished when people care not who receives the credit. Conspiring and preserving the only entitled praise to one’s self requires an unbelievable amount of time and energy. It detracts from the mission at hand slowing progress to a crawl. What motivates me to work cannot be my desire to get the credit, but … Continue reading Vision Fulfilled or Getting the Credit?
Denouncing the Recent Gang Rapes in Brazil
Two gang rapes of teenage girls with one of them involving 30 men was videoed and posted online has brought outrage in Brazil. The Public Safety Forum said in a study that Brazilian police recorded a sexual assault every 11 minutes in the country in 2014. An estimated half a million such assaults take place … Continue reading Denouncing the Recent Gang Rapes in Brazil
Potential of the Citizens
Calvin Coolidge said "The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential." The word potential means being capable of development into actuality. Potential can be summed up in the word – possibility. The average person never sails the vast ocean of potential in their lives which awaits its release to be channeled towards the … Continue reading Potential of the Citizens
A Quality that is Indispensable in Leadership
When choosing a president or any person in leadership capacity, watch how they act under pressure. How a person acts in the fire is who they really are. Good leadership has a quality that is indispensable. It must be able to handle criticism without immature responses and knee-jerk emotional outbursts. Leadership carries an expectancy – … Continue reading A Quality that is Indispensable in Leadership
Rome is Burning Again
An anonymous member of Congress writes in a new book "My main job is to keep my job, to get reelected. It takes precedence over everything" This is what happens when leaders go from serving the people to ruling. When a person becomes intoxicated on their self-importance and baptize their position in being served instead … Continue reading Rome is Burning Again
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