Constitution
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Saturday, March 7th, 2020Lies, not the truth, cause mass panic and paranoia. If the Chinese Communists had been open to the truth, the world would be a better place. At first, it tried to punish the dissenters. Only reluctantly did it decide to face reality. Dissent created the Modern World. Martin Luther, Copernicus, Voltaire, Wollstonecraft, Darwin, Plessy, Carson, […]
Home of the Brave
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020“People who have opportunity to work and earn, and who have an assured income in their old age, are free. They are free of the fear of poverty. They are free of public or private charity. They can live happier, more useful lives. That’s real freedom. And that is something we should be proud of-that’s […]
What’s that sound?
Friday, December 13th, 2019“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
Donald Ignored His Right to Remain Silent
Monday, November 25th, 2019Donald’s own words reveal he used public funds for private gain. Corruption = Biden Sept. 22 “We had a great conversation. The conversation I had was largely congratulatory. It was largely corruption — all of the corruption taking place. It was largely the fact that we don’t want our people, like Vice President Biden and […]
Public, not private, Office
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019Res publica: A Public, not a private, thing. “INSKEEP: At the start, we asked if the evidence shows an abuse of power. So here is another way to phrase the decision facing lawmakers – do they think the president asked for investigations in the national interest or his own?” Take 11 minutes to listen, or […]
We’re All Alice
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019“The Hatter’s remark seemed to her to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1911, p.101) Words ought to have meaning. For the vast majority of us they do. Unfortunately, we have walked through the looking glass and confront a Mad Hatter. We’re all Alice […]
“To the Republic”
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019Political allegiance cuts to the heart of patriotism. In the Middle Ages, warriors owed their personal allegiance to their Lord. For warriors, allegiance was earned on the battle field. For everyone else, the Lord demanded allegiance at the point of a sword. Monarchs dressed up this crude reality with claims to Divine Right. In England, […]
Donald Trump’s High Crimes
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019I am old enough to remember that politics stops at the waters edge. Now, conservatives are defending foreign participation in American Democracy. “The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable facts of betrayal of his oath of office and betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections,” the speaker of […]
The Preventive War Lie
Friday, March 23rd, 2018Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution says “Congress shall have power to … declare War”. If Donald goes to war, he will be in violation of the US Constitution. His advisors are trying to spin their illegal activity as a “preventive war.” Starting a war has never prevented one. We haven’t finished paying for […]
A Tale of Two Amendments
Thursday, January 11th, 2018How often have you heard people say, “We respect our teachers”? When the Teacher of the Year from Vermillion Parish Louisiana spoke her mind, however, we saw with our own eyes how meaningless this statement has become. On January 8th Deyshia Hargrave stood up to exercise her First Amendment rights during a School Board Meeting. […]
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