Today is a momentous occasion for two particular reasons. First and foremost we are one step closer to seeing the constitutional guarantee of “Life”…
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So, You Want To Take My Rights?
The future of civilization is our children. Our progeny will lead the world into a future we can only imagine as it was with our ancestors. We pour time, money, and resources into educating, instructing, molding, and exhorting our children into adulthood so that they can go forth into life …
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“Orthodoxy is unconsciousness”
I am positive that this has been utilized ad nauseam over the years for any number of references by countless authors and commentators. The line itself comes from George Orwell’s 1984. It’s fascinating but I’ve read this reference utilized by myriad bloggers and news people to make cases that are …
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Anything Worth Having…
Our culture is simply rife with aphorisms pertaining to our belief in work ethic as well as an adherence to truth and solid values. Of course, the risk here is that our reliance on truth and common sense has morphed into the realm of platitude with the most recent generations. Our leaders …
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Time for a little common…
Two days from now “We the People” will rouse from our comfortable, emotion laden thrones and deign to exercise our constitutional duty as voters once more. We will turn our attention momentarily from “Dancing with the stars”, “The walking dead”, “Game of thrones”, “The real housewives of” wherever or our …
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Facts are stubborn things
Famously uttered by John Adams in his defense of the British soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre the entire quote admonishes that “Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” …
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Freedom cannot flourish in the soil of oppression
For anyone who has ever attempted to grow anything we know that it is essential to care for the soil in which you will plant. Even casual interest reveals that you cannot hope to be successful without attention to the circumstances and environment that you are working with. This leads …
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Out of the Darkness
I have long been blanketed by a heavy cloak of darkness and disillusionment. My heart has been in pain and my mind has been awash in fear and uncertainty. Despite all that I have believed in my life I slowly succumbed to the doubt and soul numbing fear that the …
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The Republic is Dead…Long Live the King!
I realized as I sat down to type out this post that I’ve gotten a bit rusty. The words are not flowing as I expect them to. It is possible, however, that I’m simply still in shock from the naked power grab executed by the current administration with regard to …
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Freedom or Servitude: The choice is ours
Today we have turned words and expressions in our language inside out. Good is bad and bad is good but we do it “in the name of fairness” so that makes it OK right? What we’re doing, however, is making the environment we live in a tinder box that will …
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