(With thanks to Mark David Ledbetter for the jury history and quotes.) Yes, YOU Perhaps, on this precise 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta1 (15 June 1215), it is time again to resurrect “We the People.” Time to remember how fundamental the Magna Carta was to the Founding Fathers of America. Time to rescue the […]
James Madisonfrom Wikimedia Commons,the free media repository “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for
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Perhaps on this historic May Day,† we could profit from mourning these words of Thomas Jefferson: I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. (Thomas Jefferson ~ 18161)
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On this date—December 14—215 years ago, General George Washington died under the watchful eye of three physicians. They were using the then standard-of-practice of bloodletting,1 but after four bouts of it, Washington’s fate was assured. Perhaps we could say, he was bled to death. And perhaps we are in the midst of a latter déjà
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~~~So many of my acquaintances are panicked by government power (with some considerable justification), yet blasé (to the extreme) regarding the corporate giants who massage the backs and egos of elected officials. Giants who supply-line election and PAC coffers; giants who demand and receive favors; giants who even write legislation. Does it not seem strange
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(This is not a déjà vu aimed solely at the incumbent Democrats, though in my view there is cause for alarm, but these warning voices also indict their prower-driven opponents whose presumptions, tactics, priorities, and propaganda present, in my view, an even greater danger.) Warning voices about ways, means, and follies are seldom welcomed by