A Citizen’s Perspective is a compilation of the author’s columns for the Montgomery County Sentinel during the period leading up to and including the 2016 election season.
“These weekly columns for the Sentinel, which began in February of 2015, comprise the content of this book. The topics are topics that captured the attention of the members of our society. As such, these columns represent a snapshot of the issues we have faced and my analysis of them. I have categorized the columns under six themes relating to societal challenges, such as those that we experienced somewhat recently in Baltimore and Charleston; needed steps to improve our communities, such as our failing infrastructure; today’s political landscape, including voter identification to fix a nonexistent problem; the impact of Supreme Court rulings; campaigns and candidate interviews; and the economy, which includes the ever-shrinking middle class and its relation to the Reagan cure-all—trickle-down economics. More than anything, these columns are intended to capture the hypocrisy rampant throughout today’s society.
As you will see as you read these columns in order from earlier to later, some prognostication was a bit more accurate than others. Please consider the time frame within which each column was written as you read them.
While the columns cover more than just what has turned out to be a presidential election like no other before it, it is the 2016 election that is the main focus of this book. However, it was always my intention in writing these columns to capture the many challenges we face as a society, provide you with my own personal perspective on those challenges, and motivate the reader to consider widening his or her own perspectives on the various issues reflected in the columns.
I will leave it to the reader to determine if I succeeded”.
Paul’s View Podcasts:
1. Another one bites the dust!
2. Speaking out of both sides of their mouths
3. Why two and not three?
4. Circular Firing Squad
5. Human Scum
6. Congressional Appropriations
7. Words of Wisdom
8. Maryland Taxes – Get Angry!
9. The Roberts Court
10 Trump v. Nixon
11. Swiftboating Biden
12. A stroll through the Constitution
13. Leave our president alone!
14. Are you better off today?
INTERVIEWS I HAVE CONDUCTED:
With Congressman Jamie Raskin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lxtr0nOozw&t=1376s
With Senator Chris Van Hollen:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=haueN4GEFjo
With Congressman John Sarbanes
PAUL’S VIEW VIDEOS I HAVE DONE:
164 Years of The Sentinel – https://youtu.be/RTZ2tZ9nWAw
On impeachment – https://youtu.be/ZWlq8YnsBns
On White House press briefings – https://youtu.be/Zkvu9y_M7vg
On gun control – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cinBTyA5C-o
On tariffs – https://youtu.be/mQyH4V5519I
On taxes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjGvihzwv1Y
On Nixon/Trump – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ItseRvlLs
Successful businessman – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-GwkypyYnw
Investigate or legislate – https://youtu.be/eNTWM23JPBc
Trump Foreign Policy – https://youtu.be/QkCXWVL4sHE
July 4th Speech – https://youtu.be/8wuOV93UJ_A
Biden’s the one – https://youtu.be/K5MK9qrAVnI
Controlling the Narrative – https://youtu.be/J6jy_d2BAmE
Gun Safety – https://youtu.be/R-4sbT00SuA
America – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-tBeruxF4
Aunt Esther – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JyLOF4qAs
INTERVIEWS I HAVE GIVEN:
A Miner Detail Podcast
Just Ask the Question Podcast
Just Ask the Question Podcast Interview – July 22, 2020
Takoma Radio
https://mont.thesentinel.com/2019/02/08/the-federal-tax-plan-issue/
A Miner Detail Podcast Interview – August 4, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/AMinerDetail/videos/2748496358713194/