liberty
October 21, 2009
- I'm currently finishing a book called Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A.J. Langguth and I have to say, I've learned a lot about our founding fathers. This isn't the American Revolution we get in school, which goes something like this:There was a massacre in Boston called the Boston Massacre. There was a revolt in Boston Harbor that wasn't really a tea party, but we called ...
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October 15, 2009
- I'm a father of two: a 4 year old daughter and a 2 year old son. I wish I could be there every moment of every day to protect them, but I know in reality that can't happen. I also know that while it would make me feel better, in the long run it would hurt the children because they would not develop any sense of independence or the means of being able to learn from life's lessons. The problem is ...
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July 10, 2009
- Time magazine's Joan Grillo made a very important statement in an article on Honduras this week. She said, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (who attempted to get the constitution changed to allow him to run for office again even after his government, courts, and military said no, and was subsequently exiled from the country) gained great popularity by following his friend Hugo Chavez's formula: ...
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July 4, 2009
- July 3 LIBERTY HOPE? If you had to choose, would it be liberty or hope? Liberty is highly recommended, but without hope, how would you know you were at liberty? Transversely if you have no liberty, how could you have hope? Removal of liberty removes the possibility of hope. So, why ask for a choice to be made? Well, that’s the joy of liberty. I am free to ask anything and ...
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July 3, 2009
- Yesterday, I wrote a fairly long blog about why we celebrate Independence Day. I figured it would be my final blog of the week, but when I finished, something didn't feel right. It's sitting in my draft folder now, unused.It took me some time to figure out just what it was that I wasn't comfortable with. I'd written patriotic blogs before, thanking our veterans and extolling the virtues of the ...
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October 12, 2008
- by Robert GrudinWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.-P. J. O'RourkeIt concerned the People to see to it that whilst we are fighting against oppression from the King and Parliament that we did not suffer it to rise up in our Bowels . . . [and to have] Usurpers rising up amongst ourselves. -Thomas Allen One of the surest ...
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