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Author's Biography Eugene Elander has been a progressive social and political activist for decades. As an author, he won the Young Poets Award at 16 from the Dayton Poets Guild for his poem, The Vision. He was chosen Poet Laureate of Pownal, Vermont for his poem Pownal People. His three new verses for America the Beautiful:September 11, 2001 were widely acclaimed and read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Senator Chris Dodd. Dr. Elander has authored four volumes of poetry: The Right Click, The World Click, Journeyings, and Philosophy over Fika, all written from 2004 to now, in the U.S. and Sweden -- as well as two published novels: The Goat of God, and Turning the Tides, both available via Signalman Publishing on Amazon.com in Kindle and electronic pdf editions. A self-help book titled Empowerment:Taking Charge of your Life was recently completed and is available via Amazon.com KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing. Dr. Elander is a freelance columnist who published a newspaper for ten years in New London, CT. He is an economist and college lecturer, and has been an agency executive director, emergency management consultant, investigator; and former animal control officer, deputy code enforcement and health officer for Farmington, New Hampshire. He and his wife Birgit, who co-authored The World Click, divide their time between Georgia and her homeland, Gotland, Sweden. Several other books are underway, including a sequel to The Goat of God, and a public version of his doctoral dissertation on Cooperatism, a new economic system he developed which includes all stakeholders (workers, consumers, and the public as well as stockholders) in crucial decision making. Dr. Elander has been a member of the Stonepile Writers group in Georgia and the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. He is president of his own Elander Press.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013Injustice Scalia Should Resign! Adding to his long history of reactionary Supreme Court decisions, Antonin Scalia's latest stance that the vital Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act represents "racial entitlement" is a disgrace to the Court and to our Constitution. After playing a major role in throwing the 2000 presidential election to loser George W. Bush, Scalia continues his erosion of this nation. Injustice Scalia should resign.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013Glenwood Gardens: the Old Age Home from Hell! The failure of the Glenwood Gardens old age home staff to lift a finger to save a resident in desperate need of CPR is consistent with the low ratings of their parent corporation, Brookdale Senior Living. In addition to appropriate action in this atrocious case, a full investigation of all of the Brookdale operations is absolutely needed.
Saturday, March 2, 2013Sequestration is Unconstitutional! Sequestration rides roughshod over the United States Constitution and is a gross violation of the Oaths of Office of the President and all Members of Congress. It is also a shameful process which will damage our nation totally unnecessarily.
Sunday, February 24, 2013Sequestration: "Dr. Strangelove" and The Death of a Thousand Cuts! The rapidly-approaching sequestration of federal funds would be a major self-made government disaster affecting nearly all Americans. It can be avoided by some good will and common decency on the part of both Parties, but particularly by some reasonable compromises by Republicans.
Thursday, January 31, 2013Rep. Doug Collins -- Off to a Very Bad Start! Judging from his early vote in favor of a failed amendment to require vital Hurricane aid to be offset by cuts in discretionary federal spending, newly-elected U.S. Repesentative Doug Collins from Georgia's Ninth District is off to a very bad start in the United States Congress. The fact that his office is making widespread robo-calls blasting President Obama is not helping, either.
Sunday, January 27, 2013The Deplorable Duplicity of DISH! Capping a long history of consumer-adverse price-gouging and misleading advertisements, DISH is now "thanking" its loyal customers with a new price increase, on less than a month's notice. This is indeed deplorable.
Saturday, January 19, 2013A Voice Crying for Safety in the Georgia Wilderness! The difficulty of focusing public and media attention on reasonable steps to improve fire safety in houses and public buildings are outlined here, in the hope that our safety and security can be improved by such steps.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013"Only you can prevent building fires!" Fire safety can be much more effective, thorough, and comprehensive, as outlined in this article. Other natural and societal hazards can also be prevented or at least mitigated, if we make such goals a top priority of safety and security efforts. Some methods to achieve those goals are presented here.
Monday, December 31, 2012Ban Those Bullets! After outlining the stance of the National Rifle Association that armed guards should be stationed in every American school, the alternative of banning ammunition for assault weapons is presented for serious consideration. There is no Second Amendment right to posses and use such ammunition, nor should there be.
Sunday, November 18, 2012Romney's Rancid Rant! Failed Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's recent post-election remarks, blaming his loss on alleged (but false) lavish gifts the Obama administration is making to college students and minorities, do a disservice not only to those groups -- but ironically also to the Republicans, many of whose leaders have repudiated those same Romney remarks.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012Academic Coaching is Encroaching! Academic Coaching is a new development in on-line education primarily. This article points out the pitfalls of using an outside purveyor of coaching rather than developing that capacity in-house.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012Sandy, Meet Mitt -- Your Best Friend! In the face of Hurricane Sandy, Mitt Romney's proposals to turn emergency management over to the states and the private sector are dissected. His proposals would be, in and of themselves, unmitigated disasters.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012FLASH! Mitt Romney Endorses Barack Obama for a second term as president! A satiric analysis of the sound foreign policy approaches of President Barack Obama compared to the confusing and unclear proposals of his opponent, which would be a disaster for America's role in the world.
Thursday, October 18, 2012Mitt's Myth about Gasoline Prices! Mitt Romney's myth that President Barack Obama doubled gasoline prices during is term of office is definitively dis-proven in this article. From this example, it is clear that nothing Romney claims is likely to be the truth.
Sunday, October 14, 2012Walmart versus The Staff of Life! Walmart's policy which reduced their discount on bread overproduction gouges its budget-conscious customers at exactly the wrong time, during the Great Recession. This article exposes the customer-unfriendly practice.
Monday, October 8, 2012The Myth of Mitt: Romney was never a real businessman! By comparing Mitt Romney's vaunted business experience to the reality, this article makes clear that he distorts his record in the private sector much as he distorts his position on the many issues facing us.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012How Mitt The Unfit Blew the Election! The implications of recent revelations of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's utter contempt for at least 47% of the American People are exposed in this timely and provocative article.
Sunday, April 15, 2012Georgia's State Bar is a Bar to Complaints Against Attorneys! Filing a grievance against a Georgia attorney is difficult and likely to be dismissed on specious grounds, negating protection of the public from attorneys unprofessional conduct here. This is one more instance of how peer regulation mostly protects the peers, not the public.
Friday, March 16, 2012Three Strikes and Wells Fargo Should Be Out -- with America! Wells Fargo and Wells Fargo's megabank took multi-billions of Federal bailout dollars while promising to change their ways. Now, in addition to abusing the public trust, they abuse their own customers. That is not an improvement, as described in this pivotal article.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012The Irrefutable Case for Barack Obama's Second Term: Supreme Court Appointments The appointment of Supreme Court Justices is one of the most important of Presidential duties. If Barack Obama has the opportunity to make more such appointments in a Second Term, he will help to preserve America's future as a progressive and humane nation.
