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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...
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...
Vassar BushmillsThe Natural Law of Nature’s Laws
Two primary categories, Natural Law and How Things Work, are presented on my front page here, running back to 2011. Much of what I have written here involves those two related themes, since almost all human conduct...
The Rising Sovereign Individual: Part III-Bedeviling Deceit
As an animal species, the human race can be separated into one of two necessarily- opposing groups; the “conqueror” and the “conquered.” The higher-minded Sciences would vehemently reject such a...
The Poignant Bucket List
It’s interesting how seemingly casual, light-hearted conversations can sometimes take on lives of their own and wind up in places that were never intended. I suppose it happens often enough to be no great...
The Poignant Bucket List
It’s interesting how seemingly casual, light-hearted conversations can sometimes take on lives of their own and wind up in places that were never intended. I suppose it happens often enough to be no great...
haystackThe Rising Sovereign Individual: Part II-Affirming Free Will
Despite the Federalist Papers having been written over 230 years ago, the arguments they contained with regard to the dangers in store for the governed at the hand of tyrannical governance are every bit as clear now as...
Understanding the Incorporation of the United States of America.
Understanding the incorporation of the United States of America. One of the failings of teaching American History and Civic has been in not recognizing the that the thinking that goes behind the creation of every...
As the End Approacheth?
By watching and listening to the Left for well over 40 years, and paying attention to self-describing conservatives who claim some religious connection to God and His Son, Jesus, I think I have an idea of how all this...
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.
Join us, or follow along as we take a closer look at these notions.
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