Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas: he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on […]
The light of the body is the eye: If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! ~ Matthew 6:22-23 Prologue […]
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.~ Freud Freud and Emotion The Ancients frequently declared existence of the power of the passions, and in their poetry, epics and narratives likewise expressed their lack of confidence in man, in humanity to have the will, the […]
“The most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite Warns America of the Coming Ice Age (CBS Broadcast: 9/11/72) Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives. Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil! Well join […]
Prologue to a Hero’s Life This essay is a Memorial Day tribute to all of the heroic soldiers who gave life and limb, blood and treasure in defense of America’s sacred ideas and ideals – God, Family, Country, and America’s Judeo-Christian traditions. Saving Private Ryan (1998) is an American epic war movie based on perhaps […]
“We are shaped by what we love.” “For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust.” ~Geoffrey Chaucer Prologue This essay is on the timeless collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales in London England during the 14th-15th centuries. I have found that many of […]
The madman is the dreamer awake. ~ Freud Biography of Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, researcher and writer who is most celebrated as “the Father of Psychoanalysis.” Freud’s early career was his training as a doctor of medicine receiving his medical degree at the University […]
Belief creates the actual fact. Truth is what works. Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. ~ William James Biography of William James William James (January 11, 1842 – […]
The whole truth about the Reichstag fire will probably never be known. Nearly all those who knew it are now dead, most of them slain by Hitler in the months that followed.~ Historian William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference. […]
“The corruption, crime, and incompetence of the D.C. government has been an embarrassment to our nation’s capital for decades. It is long past time that Congress restored the honor and integrity of George Washington to the beautiful city which bears his name.” ~ Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), speaking on the BOWSER Act “It is […]
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling against “Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule” Safeguards Meritocracy Over Mediocrity
“The evidence presented by Nasdaq in its rule proposal, contrary to its claims, does not show that board diversity provides better returns for shareholders.” ~Excerpt from a Manhattan Institute led amicus curiae brief in the case of Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment vs. SEC. “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the […]
The Keep Nine Amendment: A Permanent Solution to Threats of Court-Packing
“I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court. If anything would make the court appear more partisan, it would be that. So, I am not at all in favor of that solution. Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a […]
Magna Carta: 800 years of natural law
o no one will we sell [no slavery], to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice. ~ Magna Carta In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. ~ Jefferson Prologue to the forgotten Magna […]
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