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Featured Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Feb 3, 2012

Challenging the Republican’s Five Myths on Inequality

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/challenging-the-republicans-five-myths-on-inequality/

Recent comments by Mitt Romney, the probable Republican nominee for President all but guarantee the inequality issue will remain front and center this election year. When asked whether people who question the current distribution of wealth and power are motivated by “jealousy or fairness” Romney insisted, “I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about… Continue reading

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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jan 25, 2012

Why Does Archbishop Nienstedt Believe Jesus Was Obsessed With Sex and Not Injustice?

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/why-does-archbishop-nienstedt-believe-jesus-was-obsessed-with-sex-and-not-injustice/

A few weeks ago John C. Nienstedt, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis wrote a widely publicized letter to a priest threatening to strip him of his “ministerial assignments” if he spoke out against a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. In addition to banning dissent the Archbishop directed parishes to form committees to work… Continue reading

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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jan 13, 2012

How Obama Can Guarantee a Second Term

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/how-obama-can-guarantee-a-second-term/

Let me suggest a sure fire way Barack Obama can win a second term. Stand in the doorway of a post office scheduled for closing and declare, “Not on my watch.” He will be standing with tens of millions of Americans who are rising up to defend our must trusted and ubiquitous public institution. Last… Continue reading

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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jan 9, 2012

Is the Super Bowl a Socialist Enterprise?

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/is-the-super-bowl-a-socialist-enterprise/

Is the Super Bowl a socialist enterprise?  Yes the language is provocative but not, I believe, inappropriate.  After all Indiana, the site of the next Super Bowl,  is currently governed by those who insist government should play a minimal role and the word they, and their Republican counterparts around the country  use to describe those… Continue reading

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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | 4 Comments | Updated on Jan 5, 2012

What is the Moral Standing of the Catholic Church?

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/what-is-the-moral-standing-of-the-catholic-church/

When a totalitarian regime aids and abets the rape of tens of thousands of children one would expect it to be shunned by governments and citizens alike.  And any statements it might issue on matters of morality accorded no respect. Why should we make an exception when the regime is the Catholic Church? That the… Continue reading

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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | 2 Comments | Updated on Dec 22, 2011

Occupy Giving

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/occupy-giving/

This is the giving season and we Americans are prodigious givers.  Nearly two thirds of us donate to charities each year.  This year we will send more than $225 billion to charities.  More than a quarter of this giving will occur in December. Those are the bare facts.  But this year, when the stark divide… Continue reading

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Featured Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | 1 Comment | Updated on Dec 13, 2011

Occupy Economics Departments

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/occupy-economics-departments/

On November 2nd nearly 70 students walked out of an introductory economics class at Harvard in solidarity with the Occupy movement. The mainstream media largely ignored the protest.  That’s regrettable since the economics profession has provided the intellectual framework and justification for the inequality and centralization of corporate power the Occupiers are challenging. “You can… Continue reading

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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Oct 21, 2011

The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/the-tea-party-vs-occupy-wall-street/

A few days ago NBC’s Meet the Press host David Gregory complained about Occupy Wall Street protestors “demonizing banks” and wondered, “Is this not a reverse tea party tactic?” Gregory is right.  In many respects Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is indeed a mirror image of the Tea Party. To the Tea Party government is the… Continue reading

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Featured Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | 2 Comments | Updated on Oct 6, 2011

It’s Labor vs. Capital, Stupid

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/its-labor-vs-capital-stupid/

A few months ago Nassim Taleb, author of the Black Swan, an influential book about the crucial importance of unpredictable, unforeseen events on our financial system was asked whether the hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in Greece was a Black Swan event. He replied, “No. The real Black Swan event is that people… Continue reading

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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | 7 Comments | Updated on Sep 28, 2011

The Case For The Post Office

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/the-post-office-past-present-and-future/

In the next few days we may decide the future of the Post Office.  The signs are not auspicious.  President Obama has agreed to a plan to cut Saturday delivery. The Post Service’s management wants to close 2500 post offices immediately and up to 16,000 by 2020.  Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced a bill… Continue reading