Politics is not a game. It is not a team sport.
Politics Is Not A Team Sport
Author: Phil. Your. Day.
Love God, mom, and dad. Catholic. American. Libertarian. Educator. Advisor. Runner. Cook. Traveler. Dog Rescuer
Hypocognition
Hypocognition - lack of a linguistic or cognitive representation for an object, category, or idea. Explore this. You will be pleased to learn a new concept. The irony is fantastic.
Labels
Labels are an interesting psychology. Let's allow our minds to wander.
Paying It Forward
Pay It Forward. Remember the movie? It would be nice if we tried to do it.
Your One Vote
Your One Vote The underbelly of how someone votes is how they view government. Let's examine what that means.
Faith
What does faith mean?
MLB Schedule Changes
Baseball is back! This makes it a great time to pick on the sport and its horribly long, drawn out season. Time to shorten the schedule! Here's a blueprint
Immigration
Migration trends, like the caravan will not go away. 1.8 million migrants successfully made it to Europe in three-years. America is about to face their own refugee crisis. How do we respond?
Steadiness, Positivity, Faith
Remain steady Be positive Have faith
#WalkAway
What does #WalkAway tell us about the upcoming Midterm election, and 2020?
Deficit Spending
Our deficit spending is out of control. The main problem is our promise to America with regard to Social Security. This is also America's greatest lie. We must come out ahead of the problem and fix it. But, how?
China’s Threat To The World
China, the world's biggest threat.
Corporate Governance
An argument broke out among Silicon Valley CEOS on Twitter based on an impending initiative in San Francisco to tax big corporations to solve the homeless crisis. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn't like the tax simply because the local government hasn't put enough controls in place regarding proper allocation of the funds they'd collect.
Decision Making
Decision Making. Often times we make choices based on easy to quantify values, such as, time, money, and weather. We should make make choices based on our emotional investment. How do we quantify it? How do we know?
Kavanaugh – One Week Later
Kavanaugh - One Week Later There are short, mid, and long term effects from this moment. Short term matters to the November midterms. Mid term takes us to 2020. Long term takes us to the unknown. What does this all mean?
Time
What does Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Tiger Woods, and Michael Jordan all have in common with you? You all have zero idea when your time will run out. You all are in a race against the clock that will eventually stop, and you could experience that moment at any time.
Corporate Earnings – Too often, or too infrequent?
Blackrock CEO Larry Fink lobbied two-years ago to change from quarterly corporate earnings to semiannual. Trump recently tasked the SEC to examine the shift. Barry Ritholtz wrote an opinion piece on Bloomberg theorizing moving the other direction. Let's break it down.
Who’s Paying Attention?
History proves that focus, and investigative journalism collapse during economic booms. This typically brings a surprise, shock to the system resulting in a recession no one saw coming.
White Guilt
The New York Times recently had two editors respond to a college aged white woman's request to help her address her uneasy feeling of guilt about her white privilege. What does her fear, and their responses tell us about this sensitive topic? How else can we look at this?
No greater love than to lay down one’s life for another
Here are two modern-day examples of this message being carried out in life. We may never experience a moment requiring us to die for someone, but how can we use the courage of these two men in our daily lives to help our fellow brothers and sisters?
Phil Your Day 