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• You and I now underwrite mortgage-backed securities...

  Our current economic model -- implemented all across the globe as the partner platform to advancing "democracy" in developing nations -- is not sustainable. The time has come for us to recognize that any model that is dependent on over-consumption... Posted Mar 12 2008, 09:48 AM by KTrapani with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: values, public policy, economy, consumer debt, recession, postponing gratification

• A lesson for Presidents' Day

  The war is coming to a close. There are deep divisions in the US between hawks and doves, between blacks and whites, between those who want the firm hand of a central government and those who believe in the autonomy of the states, between those who support... Posted Feb 18 2008, 08:41 AM by KTrapani with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: human rights, faith, values, the media, service, racism, civil rights, Presidents' Day

• One year to go...

  Today we celebrate the life and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King... now viewed -- in the words of biographer Harvard Sitkoff -- as "a moderate, respectable ally of Presidents and a facile spokesperson for the American Dream." Indeed,... Posted Jan 21 2008, 09:17 AM by KTrapani with | with no comments Filed under: homelessness, human rights, values, service

• Today, we begin to change for the better.

  Tonight, it will be 19 degrees in Iowa, a dramatic improvement over last night. And about 120,000 Democrats will go into homes, schools and churches and choose, in full public view, the presidential nominee of their party. Across town, in a slightly different... Posted Jan 03 2008, 01:45 PM by KTrapani with | with no comments Filed under: Iowa caucuses, values