Category — General Thoughts

meme: a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)) “memes are the cultural counterpart of genes”

According to the brilliant youth of …

Consider this an old fashioned handbill, albeit an electronic one. But try and imagine this posted on lamppoles, tavern walls, and distributed manually at town meetings.

REPEAL THE BILL! THROW THE BUMS OUT!

I am an American, and an independent …

The title of this blog is “What Would The Founders Think?”.  Of course, in order to understand what the founders would think of current events,  one has to understand a good deal of history, as well as to pay attention …

“… Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a

“The time for talk is over. It’s time to vote.”  That’s what President Obama shouted to a crowd in St. Charles Mo. on Wednesday.

Unless of course, you’re on the “right” side of the issue like he is.  …

If there is a single word that describes the miasma that emanates from our nation’s capital, it would be arrogance. Not the arrogance of power, (though there is that, too) but the arrogance of the ideologue.

Russell Kirk,* in his …

This quote from George Washington seems apropos to the people of Massachusetts given the results of Tuesday’s special election.

An innate spirit of freedom first told me that the measures which [the] administration have for some time been and now …

I have been doing a lot of thinking about the path that we are headed down.  For years I have stuck my head in the sand, avoided the news, avoided talk radio, and listened to books on tape during …