Stanley Feingold Collected Writings (2000 to 2017) TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1 A Brief Biography of Stanley Feingold ................................................................................ 2 2000 December 15, 2000 What Were the Allegations Regarding the Unfairness of Florida Voting and Vote Counting? What Were the Facts? ........................................................................................ 4 2001 Democracy in Twenty-First Century America ........................................................................................... 7 2002 January 16, 2002 Israel/Palestine ............................................................................... 22 2003 April 12, 2003 Iraq ................................................................................................... 24 July 19, 2003 Spending Discipline ....................................................................... 26 October 2, 2003 Max Cleland .................................................................................... 27 October 14, 2003 Arguing the World ......................................................................... 30 2004 October 13, 2004 No Representation Without Taxation ........................................ 33 November 4, 2004 My Personal Political Reflections on November 3, 2004 ......................................................................... 35 2005 January 18, 2005 In Praise of Martin Luther King, Jr1. .......................................... 38 January 24, 2005 Social Insecurity ............................................................................. 49 April 9, 2005 George W. Bush ............................................................................. 51 May 4, 2005 My Last (e-mail) On This Reactionary Administration2 .............................................................................. 53 May 10, 2005 All the News That’s Fit to Print Briefly ...................................... 58 July 22, 2005 Guardians of the Rule of Law ...................................................... 60 October 18, 2005 America at War............................................................................... 63 2006 November 11, 2006 Iraq and the Mid-Term Elections ................................................ 64 1 This entry is a forward by Prof. Feingold of remarks by Martin Luther King, Jr. 2 This entry is a forward by Prof. Feingold of remarks by Bill Moyers. - i - TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 2007 August 5, 2007 What Went Wrong in Iraq ............................................................ 67 August 11, 2007 Can Congress Validate the President’s Use of Warrants ..................................................................................... 70 August 17, 2007 Are Suspected Terrorists Entitled to Due Process of Law ............................................................................... 73 August 25, 2007 Does the Primary System Choose the Best Candidates? ..................................................................................... 75 September 1, 2007 Is a Vice President Necessary? ..................................................... 78 September 7, 2007 Does Ronald Reagan Have a Conservative Heir? ..................... 81 September 15, 2007 Does the President or the General Decide How or Whether to Prosecute War? ..................................................... 84 September 19, 2007 Postscript: Does the President or the General Decide How or Whether to Prosecute War? ..................................................... 87 September 22, 2007 Will Healthcare be the Primary Domestic Issue in the 2008 Election? ..................................................................... 88 September 29, 2007 What Are American Soldiers Doing in Iraq? ............................. 91 October 6, 2007 Must America Employ War Profiteers and Mercenaries in Iraq? ............................................................... 94 October 15, 2007 How Was Al Gore Denied the Victory He Had Won in the 2000 Presidential Election? ............................................... 97 December 8, 2007 Mitt Romney and the First Amendment .................................... 102 December 13, 2007 Did Romney Defend His Religious Beliefs or Deny the Rights of Non-Believers? ............................................. 104 December 15, 2007 What Do We Do When Values Collide in Deciding Controversial Public Policy Issues? ............................................. 106 2008 January 26, 2008 Letter to Friends and City Colleagues ......................................... 108 February 24, 2008 Has the Primary Process Proved Its Merit in 2008? 112 February 26, 2008 Does Experience Matter in Electing a President? ..................... 114 May 23, 2008 “Recount” May Require Rethinking ............................................ 116 2009 January 27, 2009 Obama Takes Office and Promptly Begins to Change It .................................................................................... 118 March 3, 2009 On the Death of Laissez Faire ..................................................... 121 March 30, 2009 The Obama Agenda ...................................................................... 128 May 7, 2009 How Has the Conservative Coalition That Took Over the Republican Party Failed .......................................................... 132 June 1, 2009 Sotomayor & Co. ........................................................................... 135 September 9, 2009 Health Care ..................................................................................... 140 November 9, 2009 The More Things Change ............................................................. 143 - ii - TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 2010 January 23, 2010 Constitutional Democracy v. the Senate and the Supreme Court ................................................................. 145 January 24, 2010 My Response to Your Rebuttal to My Comments on the Filibuster and the Citizens United Case ............................... 149 February 19, 2010 The Tea Party Movement ............................................................. 152 March 17, 2010 Fourteen Months into His Presidency, Where is Obama and Where is the United States .................................................... 161 May 24, 2010 Rand Paul/Graham v. Florida ..................................................... 163 June 16, 2010 Corporations and the Constitution ............................................. 165 September 1, 2010 Personal and Political Observations ............................................ 179 October 30, 2010 Recession Election3 ....................................................................... 184 November 16, 2010 Will It Take Austerity to Overcome the Great Recession ............................................................................. 187 2011 January 13, 2011 The Second Amendment After Tucson ..................................... 190 March 25, 2011 One Hundred Years Ago Today .................................................. 192 2012 February 5, 2012 Thoughts Before the Bimonthly Meeting With My City Colleagues ........................................................................ 195 May 6, 2012 An Unreasonable Decision ........................................................... 197 June 7, 2012 Partisan Polarization ...................................................................... 199 September 8, 2012 Majority Rule in America .............................................................. 198 November 3, 2012 On the Eve of the Election .......................................................... 201 2013 January 11, 2013 Debt and Taxes .............................................................................. 204 March 20, 2013 Our Institutions Are Republican But Most Americans Are Democrats ............................................................................... 206 May 17, 2013 The Governmental Crisis of Our Dysfunctional Politics ............................................................................................. 211 November 6, 2013 New York ........................................................................................ 215 2014 January 21, 2014 The Defining Political Crisis of Our Time ................................. 216 January 23, 2014 Defining Document of Our Time ............................................... 217 January 23, 2014 Economics and Morality ............................................................... 219 March 6, 2014 The Widening Gap ........................................................................ 221 April 29, 2014 The Income Gap ............................................................................ 223 June 1, 2014 Guns ................................................................................................ 225 3 This entry is a forward by Prof. Feingold of a New Yorker article by Hendrik Hertzberg. - iii - TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE September 7, 2014 Obituary for Lillian Gobitis .......................................................... 227 December 11, 2014 Torture ............................................................................................ 230 2015 January 16, 2015 My Last Word on Charlie Hebdo ................................................ 236 August 23, 2015 I Was a College Teacher ............................................................... 238 September 23, 2015