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Or, Organizing Government from the Top Down; Is Jesus for it, or against it? This is an exercise in logic. My friend, JadedbyPolitics, editor at UnifiedPatriots.com, and current Precinct Project firebrand in...
Vassar BushmillsPromiscuity and Profanity, a Commentary of Modern LGBTQIA
Mark Twain was apparently a notorious swearer. Since he didn’t use such language in his writings (wasn’t permitted in his day) we have no real idea what his profanity might have sounded like. But in one of his public...
If We Lose… (A Preaching)
This is a Preaching, not a Teaching. Takes about 5 minutes. We haven’t lost…yet. But time is running out as to how long we may have to rescue ourselves with our memory intact of what we once were. I’m sorry to be the...
Miscarrying Social Justice
"Equality" and "Equity" cannot be reconciled with each other as a practical matter.
Two Old Boomers Walked Into An Appalachian Saloon…
We would very much like your assistance
Manifest Destiny
You’ve no doubt heard the term “Manifest Destiny”, as referring to the zeitgeist of our Nation as it expanded Westward, more specifically as Americans lined up wagon train after wagon train to emigrate...
“Interlude”- For Dave
In 1942, just as WWII was starting in America, Bernard DeVoto published the first volume of his trilogy about the American expansion into the West, (The Year of Decision, 1846) which in historical time was the last...
His Lordship, Her Ladyship; the Crimes of Class
As we’re clearly seeing today, but have been witnessing the past 70 years, only without serious calculation, has been the growth of a class-based society not unlike that of the old royal systems of Europe. Once...
“Their Majesties the Mob” and Liberal Hypocrisies of Vigilantism
The answer to any conundrum begins with a unified theory The title is from a book published in 1960, while Eisenhower was still president, that title coined by a Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, a Massachusetts...
The Idea of Private Ownership of Property
How Things First Began to Work: Man’s Natural Thirst for Freedom to Acquire Property In my Introductory article, asking “Just How Important is Public and Private Education?” I closed it with my...
Just How Important is Public Education and Private Education?
This will probably become an outline of a series since, as I took down some notes about various aspects of both public and private school education I quickly realized one could come at this subject from several...
“The Gun IS Civilization” by Maj L Caudill (USMC Ret)
This essay comes via the website of Fr John Peck, and his website, The Orthodox Church of Tomorrow, of Sun City, Arizona. In the How Things Work Department of Liberty, it is a stark argument of Reason that cannot be...
Nehi Grape and Moon Pies
This is one of my “Famous Common People I have Known” series. The Hag Ramsey Every Thanksgiving the women of our church fixed about a dozen baskets of food for families that didn’t have much. In as we were a...
When People Can’t Connect More Than Two Dots
Knowing How Things Work is the first Law of being free and remaining free. “The Answer to Every Diagnosis begins with a Unified Theory” Everybody knows the answer to 2 + 2 =. In the language of Modern Culture, that...
Federalism
America’s first big political hill to climb was whether we should have a One-Party government and rather quickly, it was decided “No”. That original one-party was supposed to be the Federalist Party...
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Insurrection-They Called In Sick
With thousands of soldiers and miles of razor wire surrounding the building, they can't do their jobs?
“Papismus Lucifugus” and the Advent of Tribalism in American Conservatism
Papismus Lucifugus I have this book, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of Scotland) Divinity School at Marischal College in Aberdeen and an...
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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