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Who has the Right to Control another Adult's Life Without their Consent?

By June Stepansky · 2 months ago

The simple answer to that difficult question is that no one ever has the right to control another person's life. The only control a citizen of any country should experience is to follow the laws ...

Checklist for the Essential Elements of Good Mental Health

By June Stepansky · 3 months ago

Modern living can be very challenging for many people. Unfortunately, there is a crisis in mental health today in our country that is affecting all of our lives and killing our children. Mentally ill people ...

It is more Important than Ever that we Guard against Selfish and Criminal Charismatic Leaders.

By June Stepansky · 5 months ago

We have recently seen how our ex-president was able to rally his followers to become a dangerous mob that violently attacked our capital on January 6th with the intent of destroying our democracy. Because we ...

What Actions can we Take to Prevent our Country from Becoming an Autocracy?

By June Stepansky · 5 months ago

Democracy cannot protect itself. It needs constant attention and effort from all of us to keep it functioning well so it can continue to be a shield of justice for its citizens from the dangerous ...

How can America Fulfill its Promise and Become a more Compassionate and Democratic Country?

By June Stepansky · 6 months ago

For the past few years, I have been very concerned about the growing hate and violence in America and I have been wondering how we can begin to make the changes needed to strengthen our ...

Be a Human Rights Advocate

By June Stepansky · 7 months ago

All people who care about their children and grandchildren want to build the best country and the best and most peaceful world for themselves and their families to live in. The only question that we ...

Dangerous New Epidemics in our Country and in the World--Hate and Anger

By June Stepansky · 8 months ago

While hate and anger have been with us since the beginning of time, it has recently become more widespread because of the wider spread of disinformation available by increased special interest media coverage and the ...

Who is Responsible for the Mass Shootings in America?

By June Stepansky · 1 year ago

This week we all experienced the terrible tragedy and loss of 19 young Children and 2 teachers in the school shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. In the aftermath of that horrific ...

Young People, Women, Independents, Minorities-- You Can Save our Democracy

By June Stepansky · 1 year ago

There was a time when we could live our personal lives without thinking too much about what was happening in our country. Except for those rare occasions where some government official was caught in a ...

A Question for Moderate Republicans

By June Stepansky · 1 year ago

I have been voting for a very long time. Sometimes democrats won and sometimes republicans won. The issues that we voted on then were simple. Republicans voted for fiscal responsibility and lower taxes and democrats ...

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us

By June Stepansky · 1 year ago

Cartoonist Walt Kelly modified and changed Commodore Perry’s famous quote to, “We have met the enemy and he is us” in a cartoon he created in 1970 celebrating the first Earth Day in 1970. The ...

A Society in Transition

By June Stepansky · 1 year ago

We all are aware that change in our personal lives is difficult, constant, and inevitable. We notice it when we look in the mirror or see our children grow. What is not so noticeable, however, ...

The Inevitability of Change

By June Stepansky · 1 year ago

“Everything changes. Nothing remains without change” –Buddha Change is Inevitable. Whether we suffer a painful loss, endure the breakup of a relationship or lose a job, we can never escape the consequences of change. Although ...