The Handwringing is Increasingly Pointed About the US Military Decline
But Are There any Adults Working on Solutions???
Federalism
Of, By and For the People – Chapter 1 (continued)
In a political system devised of, by and for the people must have adequate safeguards for the practice of religion.
Federalist 86, by the Sons and Daughters of Publius
Two hundred and thirty-five years ago, the final of eighty-five essays was published that are widely known today as The Federalist Papers. The first was written in October 1787 and the last one in May 1788.
Checks and Balances
Perhaps the key to freedom and overreach by government is the simple principle of checks and balances. This should be taught in civics? Is it still?
Taken for Granted: Watching Politics from the Sidelines
Watching Politics from the sidelines, is a uniquely American Achilles Heel that can distort the intentions of the Framers.
For Most Government Functions, Local Control is Best
In the military and private sector, great managers realize that work should be handled directly by the group best suited to do the job. Indeed, if any boss micromanages, that causes a moral issue within the workforce and severely hurts the efficiency of completing the task at hand. The Framers of our government understood that axiom. They …
The Bill of Rights; A Primer
“Negative liberty is the absence of obstacles, barriers or constraints. One has negative liberty to the extent that actions are available to one in this negative sense.” — from “Positive and Negative Liberty”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Faux Legislative INSURRECTION TRUTH COMMISSION
Proud Boy Rescue of Capital Police Video Deep Sixed
Will We Keep Our Republic?
Benjamin Franklin. Image via Pixabay Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it. America was founded on …