Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
“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 Supreme Court, with its GOP appointed majority, may start sending back issues to the legislatures, where they belong.
One hundred years from now, historians will be looking back and calling this the Age of Trump, for Donald Trump has as much clout today in America that only the most notable presidents in American history have ever seen.
For those who have been suffering through my articles for the past many days, you probably suspected early on what it was I was trying to do. We started with the most basic philosophical question, who am I and why am I here, and have worked our way through some of the highlights of western thought. This …
The second Continental Congress adopted a Declaration of Independence of July 4th, 1776, a summary of the political thought that had evolved over the centuries regarding the freedoms of man. Thomas Jefferson in his genius added teeth to the Declaration so that the document should stand the test of time. Perhaps this 4th of July, the citizens of …
I don’t typically agree with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about anything, but I was struck by comments he made during a March 2021 podcast entitled “Truth.” Recounting an experience he’d had at a recent political rally in Berlin, Kennedy said, “I was shaking hands and I wasn’t wearing a mask. Nobody was. There were a …
What were the lessons of the Stoics, why were they critical in Admiral Stockdale’s survival as a POW, and what can they tell us today?
In the 51 years since I left my mother’s house, I have lived in apartments, rented single family homes, an owned half-duplex, an owned single family home, and now, finally, an owned farmhouse on actual farmland. We have exactly one neighboring home, about 100 yards away, as our houses are the only two on a …
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 …
It’s been a week since 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered by a deranged 18-year-old with a rifle in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school. We have had time to process that tragedy, debate the police response (or lack of it), discuss the attack, and of course, politicize it. I am not going to …
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress…”.
Let’s remember two years ago, shall we? That is back when you could go anywhere you wanted, anytime you wanted. (Trip to Europe anyone?) When your kids went to school everyday without you having to check your email to see if everything has changed since yesterday. A time when you didn’t know all your friends’ …
Take a moment, sit down, perhaps sip on a great Bourbon with a few rocks, and ask yourself a question – what is my greatest God-given right?
Instead of relying on “penumbras and emanations,” perhaps we should simply adhere to the plain language of the Constitution.
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls,” words penned by Thomas Paine on December 23, 1776, six months after a tumultuous Continental Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence
The Federal Government has long exceeded its Constitutional role. What can thee states, jointly and severally, do about it?
It is imperative that every American knows something of the Constitution. Everyone needs a personal copy of the Constitution and needs to read it often.
It may feel like anything you can do to stand up against the encroachment of our liberties is so little as to be worthless. Your pebble of resistance cannot hold back the flood. Perhaps not. Yet your pebble is absolutely crucial. Mattias Desmet, a PhD in clinical psychology and a masters in statistics, working at …
