Coach Bill / Dad, Entrepreneur Special Educator, American Political Scientist, Writer, Musician.

A political scientist does not have a physical lab and a white coat with safety glasses on as they aggregate informational flows, sifting through information, unearthing tangible ideas and opinions, analyzing these and the conclusions thereof they arrive to, but they are on the cusp of practicing informed, independent, open-mined critical thinking. Their focus is on an understanding of the interaction of weak and powerful systems, organizations and entities, political movement flows, local, national and global culture dynamics, and the relationships between governments and the people that constitute these. Abraham Lincoln was a political scientist; a critical thinker; a selfless individual who looked into the matter of what the original spirit of liberty and justice for all was, and what the sum intentions of the founding fathers of the American nation were. He was a man who loved to learn and had an early appreciation for the value of selfless objectivity, recognizing it as an honest...

“ Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..” (Robert Frost’s 1915 poem, ‘The Road Not Taken.’ ) What is ‘that road that Americans should take, if not the road that is of peace and tranquility, a road that gifts us with national civility (genuinely treating each other with kindness, respect & politeness)? What other road is there that we can nationally consent to as a diverse people, with our different ethnicities, religions, politics, and walks of life? Was not the matter deliberated upon with much thoughtful discussion in our Continental Congress’s of  (1774-1776), a committee created to draft a document that could stand the test of time and still maintain itself after 246 years as the promissory note that was the first agreement to national community? It ‘was and is’ a promise; a road’ a national agreement, a first Bill of Rights, and a charter that the American society would be founded and established on the protection of individual human rights, that we may self-determine the ...