Just before Christmas 2023, I embarked on a sojourn that I thought, at the time, would only last a couple of weeks. Ten months later, I am barely beginning to find my way down the last stretch of road toward...
Humankind is arguably the most enigmatic species on Earth; the greater our successes with individual sovereignty, freedom, and liberty, relying on our inherent free will-driven pursuits of living self...
Of the things that might be said about our species, the last surviving species of the genus Homo, what we know cannot be summed up in an introductory paragraph any more than could the sum total of what has...
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the defining inspiration for the creation of this pamphlet, Human Sense, was written to put before the Common Man a simple question: Should the American colonists reconcile...
Two and a half centuries ago, the American ruling Authority “marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists.” The armed...
[Image Source] I will get to definitions in a minute, but to set the tone for what follows, readers should consider that the one thing the American political class and their cohorts in the collective mass Communications...
[Author’s note: Part III and IV of Common Sense, together, present Paine’s thoughts and observations on America-specific issues and concerns. Respectively, they are titled “Thoughts on the present...
Before we get into the fine print of Part II of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, it’s worth taking some time to look a little closer into this man and how it was that he came to be such an important figure in...
[Image Source] Betraying a Nation, a simple expression consisting of a mere six syllables, will take many thousands of words to describe, explain, and put into context as it relates to modern America. It’s going...
The end of the year 2023 is days away, and not long after 2024 begins, the American Nation and all the people of which she is comprised will begin anew the process of tearing itself into little pieces along ideological...
Greetings! As I write this, Easter, 2023, has just gone by, and now that Spring is finally here, it feels like a good time to share a few updates with those who subscribe to the Substack page(s) or follow along at the...
No matter which side of the ideological fence you identify yourself as being aligned with (unless you have just crawled out from underneath a rock), the current state Humanity finds itself in can only be described as a...
Old enough to remember a world that was only connected by pen, paper & stamp, or rotary dial phones, I can assure the younger generations that “Social” Media has completely kicked the legs out from...
At the end of part II of our first book, “Unwashed Philosophy: A User’s Guide For Our Imperfect Union,” my writing partner Vassar and I offered up an approximately 5,000-word presentation on the...
Let me begin by assuring readers that this is not a puff piece on Tulsi Gabbard; she is a liberal, and I am a conservative, and in matters of politics, there are very few things the two of us would agree on...
Somewhere in the middle of my raging levels of hot mess hormones, at roughly 15 or 16, I remember like it was yesterday that my grandmother got after me about my rising levels of angst and decreasing levels of interest...
As a simple matter of fundamental physics, every process that expends energy requires an ongoing supply of fuel in order to continue or face termination of the process once the supply is exhausted. I grant you that...
It is said that wisdom is “the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment. “ I am of the opinion that there are far more people in the world that consider themselves "lovers of wisdom" (philosophers) than there are those that actually possess it.
At her founding, the American Nation had already amassed 150 years of " national" wisdom; our first-of-its-kind Nation, built from the bottom up (as opposed to the top-down construction of every previous nation in humankind's history), and the Framers understood that the single-most-important ingredient necessary for her long-term survival was the freedom, liberty, and right to self-determination of the Sovereign Individual of which she would necessarily be comprised.
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