George Washington – Legislator

The great George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22, 1732, and served about seventeen years as a delegate in the Virginia colony’s House of Burgesses. He is remembered for many other things as well. The Father of his Country was known as a successful merchant, farmer, and horticulturalist, a prominent frontier …

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Citizen Responsibility

There are widely varying views of the responibility of leaders in the proper formation of government.  Plato believed in the philosopher king while his student Aristotle believed in the rule of law and the proper formation of a constitution consisting of the laws, traditions, and habits that together form the nature of a country.

The End of Palestine; Donald Trump Reminds the World That Ideas Have Sell-by Dates

The End of Palestine; Donald Trump Reminds the World That Ideas Have Sell-by Dates by Lee Smith President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred years—Palestine. During meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, Trump said he was going to move 1.7 million Palestinians out of Gaza. …

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Trump’s plan to restore Hollywood’s Golden Age is a Daunting Task

Lost among the burst of executive orders emanating from Donald Trump’s felt tip permanent marker was his decision to appoint three iconic actors—Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone—to serve as his special envoys to Hollywood.
Their mission, Trump said, is to return Hollywood to its former Golden Age.