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Why Free Speech Matters

Featured image by Michelle Grewe. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I have said before that we must be responsible with our rights. We have the freedoms to speech, assembly, the press, petition, and religion. These freedoms, enshrined in our Constitution, are… or were… meant to be absolute. Congress could not abridge […]

Inauguration Day

It is inauguration day in this country.

The Shielding Approach

Featured image by Gary Todd. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I generally am skeptical of conspiracy theories. When someone tells me about this thing being connected to some larger group of people that are given near god-like powers, I tend to disbelieve. Real-life tends to be much more boring than the […]

The Illusion of Economic Freedom

Featured image from Business Insider. Follow the link for more info. I love the concept of laissez-faire market capitalism. An individual creates a product or service that they voluntarily exchange with another producer of a product or service for mutual benefit. This benefit creates both wealth and specialization, which allows for larger community groups to […]

A house divided…

Featured image by Alan Levine. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. It feels like we’ve watched a car wreck, a fire, or an explosion over the last week. Attached is the text of the House Divided Speech from the National Park Service, follow the link for the original source material. I am […]

What is gained?

Featured image by Pom’. Follow for more of this artist’s work. What is gained by rioting? What is accomplished in using force to occupy a space or cause destruction? Seriously? What positive effect results from the Pro-Trump rally turned protest turned riot. Several years ago, there was a group that prevented Ben Shapiro from speaking […]

An American Reichstag Fire

Many people believe that these types of things could never happen to this country, that somehow our existence and history transcends the patterns and desires of human nature.

So it begins.

If the American People wish to have any semblance of a country left, they must tell the people who think that it is acceptable to storm the capital loudly and collectively “NO.”

Ripples

H.L. Menken was absolutely right when he said that “Democracy is the theory that the American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.”