If you happen to have forgotten, or especially if you’re not old enough to remember what it is like to have a real American lead on an issue, then you need to watch this: (Please click like on this post if you still love this man!)
In the comments of my previous post, “History’s Patterns,” it has been said that we – as individuals – do not have a right to determine right and wrong: that only the government has this authority. Those comments got me to think about something Thomas Jefferson said in his first inaugural address to this nation:…
This is yet another post that means to convince you we are dealing not with a political Party or ideology, but with a mindset that tends to result in otherwise very different people arriving at the same decisions. In this case, the mindset is that you and I – as individuals – are somehow incapable…
Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom Newsom/Christian Murders (Snopes) Do you remember all the outrage about this story? Do you remember Obama saying he didn’t know the details but that he knew the accused were racists and him calling the victims’ families in support? Did Jackson and Sharpton go after anyone over…
Have you seen this? Rice: Failing schools a national security threat I trust The Council on Foreign Relations and everyone on it about as much as I would have trusted Osama Bin Laden with a nuclear armed ICBM, but I agree with the central theme of that article – just maybe not in…
I often tell people that I do my best to focus on looking to the principle(s) involved in any given issue rather than allowing myself to get caught up in the particulars of how a principle might be presented. Unfortunately, I have come to understand that I have done a poor job of explain what…
The Rio Norte Line 