Great Expectations
“We the People…”; these words alone, consummately declarative, are America’s great distinction…
Opinion
Where Free Speech Falls on Deaf Ears
Of late, it seems the impunity to perpetuate one’s narrative is the greatest spoil of conflict. As such, an ill-advised quashing of speech now persists. And thus, at the altar of the ends justifying the means, the sacrosanct is now sacrificed. Tolerance is forsaken for…
An “Or” Question
It is this very possibility those in governance considered unthinkable that the Second Amendment reserves for the people, at the discretion of a so empowered majority, the duty of rectification in pursuit of constitutional fidelity and…
An Entitlement to Dependency
History has shown the subsidizing of generational dependency fully exploits this advantage. Here, by the barter of votes, a so rewarded government distributes…
The Warranty Against Unfairness
The acceptance of artificial equity means mere existence an entitlement to prosperity. Yet reality holds an unmistakable absence of equity, where prosperity…
An Impediment of Deliverance
As well we allow the Legislature its abdication of authority, such that prerogative becomes the domain of the bureaucrat…
The Career Ending Novelty
Yet should an individual have a genuine desire of repeated public service, the regularity of shifting political winds helps ensure the weeding out of all but the most honorable…
Article V
This, as beyond those rights of natural law compelled to all by God, only the citizenry may grant, or rescind as necessary, authority to govern…
Whose Share Unfair?
As a concern for the government, taxation is merely a de facto entitlement to the financial compensation of another’s effort. This of course provides essential funding for the litany of…
A Rationing of Freedom
Our elections bring about chaotic fits and starts; a loosening or tightening of the reins on governance. Without care, the perception of them as “democracy in action” can obscure the more fundamental – that we are a constitutional…
For Memorial Day ~ The Great American Poll Tax
Imposed from our founding, a tremendous levy finds only a selfless few. Where markers on scattered fields betray their expense, the final vote stands…
Democracy Out of Context
But ignored here are the guardrails our constitution provides as insulation against the purity of democracy, i.e., a shelter for the minority against a maelstrom of…
How Do You Identify?
For those who avoided the aforementioned path, their answer is likely no. They reject with great sobriety the idea of governmental reliance…
The Abhorrent Evil of Cowardice
It has often been said that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Yet I know of no freedom ever born of cowardice…
A Reclamation of Authority
But while a Convention for proposing Amendments would likely be met with trepidation, it does not preclude our arrival at its…
Such Uncompromising Disparity
As our societal values irreconcilably diverge, a severance of association by decisive means is bandied about…