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 I'm a psychologist and retired Navy Captain. In 2000, I joined NIH as a national research program official, science officer, and faculty member. Before retiring to Happilyeverafter on the Florida Coastline, I have lived in 20 different places including the West Coast, Mid-West, South-West, Deep South, and DC in addition to SE Asia and Europe (where I still live part of each year). My scientific publications are mainly focused on improving organizational morale, effectiveness, and efficiency for DOD, OPM, various federal departments and agencies, as well as the White House. My latest book with Prof. Carl Leukefeld at UKY is Grantsmanship for New Investigators (Springer, 2019). OpEd News Member for 278 week(s) and 1 day(s) 12 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 299 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls 
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Where Are American's Fear & Loathing Politics Taking Us? This brief essay points out that a great many Americans are anticipating governmental chaos as the Trump administration comes into power. It is not just the Executive Branch, but a corrupt judiciary and a do-nothing Congress that collectively might trigger global recession. America needs to find its moral compass to find a new path before we reach the political cliff. 
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America Had Its Reichstag Fire and Nobody Noticed We American voters have elected a Republican president who plans to replace our democracy with a fascist dictatorship. Voters, the media, and both parties have enabled this to happen, and it seems that it took a slate of the worst cabinet appointees in US history to wake us up - probably too late to stop it. 
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The Climate Crisis is a Building Code Crisis; Not Just an Insurance Crisis Climate change is causing increasing devastation to American housing. We need to stop looking at the problem as an insurance catastrophe and realize that we need to build stronger houses and retrofit the ones we already have. 
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Homelessness Is Often Less About the Cost of Housing Than It Is About Under-Treated Mental Illness. This article addresses the growing homelessness problem by reminding readers that the majority of homeless people are not on the street because of increasing rents but because they have mental health problems. 
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Tuberville is No Excuse for Not Confirming Military Promotions Simple call for the US Senate to start approving military promotions given that that the House cannot pass any legislation during the GOP snipe hunt for a Speaker. 
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Changing the Gay Marriage Bill to Get It Passed Risks the Very Court Interference It Was Supposed to Prevent GOP proposed changes to the gay marriage bill before the Senate risks sending the issue right into the laps of the Supreme Court Justices who want to make it illegal. 
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JIT Did It: Why Store Shelves Emptied So Fast - Again Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the USA, citizens have suffered one shortage after another. That is not a coincidence. It is the result of how America manages the way it manufactures goods and delivers services. 
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Student Loan Forgiveness: Does Not Eliminate the Cost of Higher Education. Building on a recent article by Thomas Knapp, this article tries to dispel some of the mythology around attending college and then offers a few ideas to reduce its cost while increasing the likelihood of reducing the 40% national drop/flunk-out rate. 
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Putin's War Has Made Russia Irrelevant This brief essay tries to point out that regardless of the final conclusion of the Ukraine invasion by Russia, Russia has so isolated itself, that its very relevance in the world is forfeit. 
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2021 Drain-the-Swamp Act is the Kill-Democracy Act The recently submitted 2021 Drain the Swamp Act (H.R. 5712) by Rep Davidson (R-OH) would not only drain the DC swamp by moving 90 percent of the federal workforce out of DC, it would turn DC into an urban ghost town, decimate the federal workforce, and destroy our government in the process - just what many Trump Republicans seem to want. .  
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It's About Time Our Troops Got Back into the Service Dress Uniform of the Day Is how we dress our military helping to continue Foreverwar? This article argues that it might.  
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			The People Make the Place How does the culture of where we live move with us when we relocate? How do the places were live influence our life decisions?  |