Is the United States a co-signer of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Has the U.S. observed all the required obligations?

Which United Nations member states violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a matter of government policy? Which are the human rights listed in the Universal Declaration?

How to explain the inconsistency/contradiction between the Declaration of Independence’s assertion that “all men are created equal with the unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and the fact that slavery persisted for another 70 years? Also, how to explain the inconsistency that some of the signers of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves themselves?  

Which human rights do the three monotheistic religions explicitly, unambiguously violate in their holy books? 

What are the essential differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam which account for their historical conflicts and animosities? How does the Old Testament differ from the New Testament? How does the Koran both resemble and differ from the Old Testament and the New Testament?

Is the Israeli/Palestinian conflict really about land? What is the real solution to the conflict?

Who exactly were Samson and Delilah, and David and Goliath?

Why is the Vatican in Rome, not in Jerusalem, since Jesus never went to Rome?

Why was the first mosque built in Jerusalem, directly on top of the ruins of the Jewish Second Temple destroyed by the Romans, and not in Mecca, where Mohammed lived?

What are the origins/roots of anti-Semitism? 

What are the origins/roots of slavery?

What are the roots of racism? Why is there still racism and “white supremacy” in the United States? How to end racism?

What caused the Great Depression of 1929? Why did it last until World War II? Why did it end with WW II? 

What exactly is QE (quantitative easing)? Is QE inherently inflationary?

What were the causes of World War I?

What were the causes of World War II? 

Why did the U.S. fail in Viet Nam?

Why did the U.S. fail in Iraq? In Afghanistan? In Syria? In Libya?

Why did Iraq’s Saddam Hussein decide to invade Kuwait? Was he tacitly encouraged to do so by the Bush administration, wittingly or unwittingly? 

Why exactly did communism fail as an economic system?

Why were Hitler and the Nazis able to come to power?

Why were Mussolini and the Fascists able to come to power in Italy?

Why was Lenin able to take over Russia and impose communism?

Does the U.S. really depend on foreign capital to finance its budget deficits, as the conventional economic wisdom asserts? 

Do budget deficits really cause trade deficits, as mainstream economists insist?

Do budget deficits really cause inflation, as mainstream economists insist?

Do budget deficits really cause interest rates to rise, as mainstream economists insist?

Do budget deficits really have an impact on the dollar’s exchange rate, as the conventional economic wisdom asserts?

Are budget deficits and the national debt necessarily passed on to future generations?

Why does the United States still have widespread poverty, 55 years after Lyndon Johnson proclaimed the “War on Poverty”?

What are the causes of police brutality? How to end it?

If addictive drug control laws haven’t worked, is it logical to expect gun control laws to work?

What are the two types of inflation, requiring different policy responses? What are the real causes of inflation?

Has gold been a good investment since 1980? How does it compare with stocks? With real estate? What exactly is Bitcoin?

Are long-term capital gains taxes economically counterproductive? Are they unfair?

Since the Mueller Report contains various criminal indictments against Trump, why was Trump not prosecuted during his presidency? What is the Office of Legal Counsel rule on the matter of indicting sitting presidents? Who ordered the rule? Is the rule invalid, corrupt, fraudulent, and unconstitutional?

How do you properly value real estate?

How do you properly value a stock? What factors make the stock market go up or down?

Is the euro the main cause of the European Union’s 10-year economic crisis?

Does the asylum law of the United States and of the United Nations apply to people running away from poverty and crime in their country, or only to people persecuted by their own governments? Should asylum requests be made at U.S. consulates in the countries of the applicants’ residence, not at our border?

Is global warming clearly due to manmade pollution or instead to natural forces/cycles, according to science and the climate history of the Earth, considering that there have been five ice ages and five major global warmings before humans?

Doctors and lawyers need to get an advanced degree and pass state board exams before being allowed to practice their profession. Does it make sense that candidates for president, senator, representative, governor, and even mayor, are allowed to run without having an advanced postgraduate degree specially devised for political candidates in order to ensure they are capable of knowledgeably discussing the major mistakes in American economic, social, and foreign policy over the past 100 years, and explaining which would have been the correct policies?

What are the major mistakes in American economic, social, and foreign policy over the past 100 years? Which would have been the correct policies? 

Russia is no longer a communist nation. So what type of nation is it, and why does it think of the United States as an enemy? What about China, which is led by its Communist Party but abandoned communism about 30 years ago and has a capitalist economy? 

Why is there widespread anti-American sentiment in the world? What does “The Ugly American” refer to?

Is the death penalty unconstitutional? Is it not “cruel and unusual punishment”, in violation of the 8th Amendment?

Is the estate tax unconstitutional, in violation of the 5th Amendment? 

Who are the most celebrated composers of classical music and opera? From Germany? From Austria? Italy? France? Czechoslovakia? Poland? Hungary? Spain? Russia? England?

Who are the jazz greats? Composers and musicians? American and foreign?

Who are the most celebrated artists, architects, and designers, past and present? American and foreign?

Are presidential pardons invalid and unconstitutional when they are tainted by conflict of interest? Must presidential pardons be entirely free of conflict of interest to be valid? In order to be valid, must presidential pardons be for specific crimes already adjudicated? Are non-specific pardons constitutionally invalid? Can presidents validly pardon themselves, their family members, their friends, their business associates, or would such pardons be invalid due to conflict of interest? Can the Constitution be logically interpreted as allowing presidents to be above the law or to escape prosecution by pardoning themselves?

Are sitting presidents subject to both impeachment and indictment/prosecution? Impeachment being the political remedy against a president’s serious misbehavior, with indictment being the judicial remedy? Indictment and prosecution is clearly no more distracting for a president than impeachment. Both are equally distracting. So, is it not logical to interpret the Constitution as providing two complementary remedies against a seriously misbehaving president? Why would the Constitution want to exclude indicting a sitting president, particularly when the president’s own party has a majority in either the House of Representatives or the Senate and could behave tribalistically, blocking impeachment or removal of a guilty president? 

The Constitution specifically provides for impeachment of a sitting president. It does not specifically provide for indictment of a sitting president. Can one logically interpret the Constitution as doing so because it considers it self-evident that a sitting president can be indicted, and because impeachment had to be introduced as a remedy? If the Constitution had intended to prohibit the indictment of sitting presidents, wouldn’t it have clearly specified that?

Must attorneys general recuse themselves from all matters involving the presidents who appointed them, in view of conflict of interest considerations? 

Where does the memorable admonishment in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story and William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet    -“Stick to your own kind!”-   come from originally?