Senator Daines, Please Oppose Laffer’s Tax Cut Gimmicks
[UPDATED July 3, 2017] I’m updating this post to include Senator Daines’s response. Dear Senator Daines, My name is Jared Pettinato, and I live in Whitefish. Would you please oppose…
Write More Effectively by Eliminating Six Words
Write more clearly, more efficiently, and more effectively by eliminating six words: should, must, have-to, supposed, deserve, and ought. Writers use those words to encourage their readers to act. But…
Trump’s Bullying Language
Even into a tragedy like the Manchester bombing, President Donald Trump inserts bullying language. His statements reflect a male-female dichotomy in which the terrorists are men who have failed and…
Department of Justice Regulations Compel a Special Counsel
Today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued an Order Appointing Robert S. Mueller III as Special Counsel. Rosenstein reached the same conclusion I reached: Department of Justice regulations require…
Education Changes Workers’ Collectives and Increases Wages
Politicians constantly repeat the mantra that education increases individuals’ wealth, and the statistics bear that out.[1] But that correlation does not establish causation. When individuals obtain an education, they put…
Email to Senator Daines on Prior Authorization for Nuclear First Strike
Please see, below, an email I sent to to Senator Steve Daines on 30 April 2017. I requested him to support S. 200, which prohibits the President from first-strike firing…
Use an Action Verb Instead of “To Be” as the Main Verb
“To be or not to be. That is the question,” Hamlet asked. Persuade your readers more effectively by answering Hamlet: “not to be.” The verb “to be” conjugates to am,…
Trump’s Executive Order on Sanctuary Cities Violates Constitutional States’ Rights
Trump violated the United States Constitution by directing all United States agencies to withhold funds from sanctuary cities.[1] First, the Executive Order attempts directly to compel state and local governments…
Motivate Voters by Helping Fill Needs
Voters vote for politicians to help them fill their needs. Individuals strategically spend their scarce and valuable resources, like time and money and energy, on satisfying their needs. Instead of…
Refute the Lie; Then Illuminate the Reason for the Lie
Donald Trump manipulates the media by lying strategically. Upon identifying a lie, journalists refute the lie, but too-often end their articles believing that completes their job. The lie does not…