Category — General Thoughts

Like the drunk who wakes up in an unfamiliar place, we wonder, “How did we get here?” We appear to be in America, but the landscape is unfamiliar.

According to the US Census Bureau, in the third quarter of 2008, …

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

Since posting my “call to action”  after the passage of Obamacare, I have …

From a CBS News Story:

Early on the morning of 9/11, Mohammed Atta and another hijackers appeared at the U.S. Airways counter in Portland, Maine. Tuohey checked them in for the 6 a.m. flight to Boston.

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What ran …

“… the Constitution should be interpreted in ways that adapt its principles and its text to the challenges and conditions of our society in every single generation.”  Goodwin Liu

Until today, that is, when, on being confronted with his own …

In the fall of 1787 an anonymous anti-Federalist, writing under the pseudonym Centinel, wrote Anti-Federalist Arguments from Pennsylvania.  The first of these two letters appeared in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer on October 5th of that year.

Centinel suggests that …

Congressman Hank Johnson, Democrat from  Georgia, recently explained the logic behind his party’s  immigration policies.  Providing  amnesty to illegals and  keeping the borders as porous as possible are actually motivated by national security concerns. These measure …

Al Sharpton has an important message for the folks who voted for Barak Obama last year. He told Fox News, “…the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected President Obama.”

Did they know that’s what they voted for? …