Tag: Government
Cowardly conservatives: Either govern D.C. or resign!
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. ~ Einstein Prologue: GOP, read the damn Constitution! Did you know that the Republicans who since the 2014 midterm elections have had majorities in both Houses in of Congress, yet what policies have they passed, […]
Gov. Mike Pence vs. the Shadow Constitution
There are no crimes only criminals ~ Robespierre No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of civil authority. ~ Jefferson Prologue: Are some religions more protected than others? Can the government force Christian business owners to cater to gay customers […]
Is Hillary too big to fail?
Prologue to the Wicked Witch of the Upper West Side After reading a Breitbart article with the controversial title, “Is Hillary too big to fail”? I made the following comments on my Facebook page: “Is anyone in America too big to fail? This silly worldview got us into the Wall Street Collapse of 2008 by […]
Hagel’s Military deconstruction
We have departed from the maxim of “peace through strength” to a belief in “appeasement through weakness.” ~Col. Allen West Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to announce draconian military cuts that would reduce the U.S. Army from 490,000 troops to between 440,000 to 450,000, the elimination of the entire fleet of Air Force A-10 […]
Hagel’s Military deconstruction
We have departed from the maxim of “peace through strength” to a belief in “appeasement through weakness.” ~Col. Allen West Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to announce draconian military cuts that would reduce the U.S. Army from 490,000 troops to between 440,000 to 450,000, the elimination of the entire fleet of Air Force A-10 […]
Symposium–The death of work
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but ingeniously profound method of teaching by asking philosophical and revelatory questions. The Greeks called this form “dialectic” – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
Symposium–The death of work
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but ingeniously profound method of teaching by asking philosophical and revelatory questions. The Greeks called this form “dialectic” – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
DOD’s war against the framers and conservative ideas
Historical Background of FOIAThe Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is a federal freedom of information law that sanctions the full or restricted disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. The Act outlines agency records subject to disclosure, defines mandatory disclosure procedures and grants nine exemptions […]
DOD’s war against the framers and conservative ideas
Historical Background of FOIAThe Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is a federal freedom of information law that sanctions the full or restricted disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. The Act outlines agency records subject to disclosure, defines mandatory disclosure procedures and grants nine exemptions […]
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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