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...
Betraying A Nation: Pt . 1- Paine On Government
[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...
Betraying A Nation: Introduction
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...
Some Spring Cleaning
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...
Blessed Are The Humble
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...
When The Feigned Outrage(s) Met Their Maker
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...
A Mostly Peaceful Midterm Coup
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...
A Teachable Moment On Electoral Freedom And Independence, Courtesy Tulsi Gabbard
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...
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Midterms ’22: For All America Has Given Us
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...
Progressive Fascism: America’s Soul In Crisis
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...
Supremecist Lies And Progressive Sedition
By most accounts, Homo sapiens first appeared 300,000 years ago. According to science we have as of this writing, the first empire, Mesopotamia, appeared around 2330 B.C.E., and while it has been said that earlier kings...
Retributive Injustice
Before there were Kings, there was order and cooperation in pursuit of the shared goal of survival; small groups formed to sustain themselves, undertaking tasks according to individual merit, competence, and proven...
Attempting The Overthrow Of A Free People
In part III of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published a few months prior to the Declaration of Independence, Paine made the observation that “a government which cannot preserve the peace, is no...
A Broken National Family
The best measure of a nation’s value and worth consists of two primary elements; the benefit it serves the global community and the investment it makes in the quality of life for the people of which it is...
The Wrath Of A Civilized People
When the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia in 1776, the American population at the time was approximately 2.5 million people occupying land in 13 states. In today’s numbers, we are fast...
Socio-Political Psychopathy: An Evolutionary Paradox
[Author’s note: This essay took on a life of its own and, where I planned three thousand words I found myself at 5,000 by the time I was done. The thesis embedded in this essay is comprised of layers; I beg both...
To be American, American Exceptionalism and Assimilation- How Things Worked
I think there is a general misconception of just what assimilation means to the ideal of “to be American”. To understand American exceptionalism you must first realize that it was created by the American people, not...