Yesterday we talked about President John Adams, Founding Father and Patriot. President Adams showed us that sometimes even the best leaders are tempted to interfere with the liberties the Constitution recognizes. President Adams signed laws called the Alien and Sedition… Continue Reading
In 1800, John Adams was the President and he ran for re-election against his rival Thomas Jefferson. Adams and Jefferson had very different ideas about how to run the country and they did not like each other very much. Jefferson… Continue Reading
This is George Washington. He is called the “Father of Our Country” because he led the army that fought the British for America’s independence. For six years, he had to be away from his home and family, fighting what was… Continue Reading
I’ve been doing a lot of reading and re-reading of the case of Newdow v. Rio Linda Unified School District, the most recent Pledge of Allegiance case from the Ninth Circuit. It is easily the longest opinion I’ve ever read… Continue Reading
Social conservatives made a concerted effort to take over the otherwise-obscure government body that sets standards for schoolbooks and lesson plans for the state of Texas. With the result that, much like the perverse effort to edit out the liberal… Continue Reading
Just a thought: Today, the United States still stands as what is called a “hyperpower” — it possesses territory, client-states, economic influence, technological superiority, prestige, political power, and even its language and currency are accepted the world over. To be… Continue Reading
One of the most fascinating, if not the most fascinating, books I have ever read about the ancient world was a rehash of Edward N. Luttwak’s Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire. Most military historians find the ancient world of… Continue Reading
This doesn’t look quite like the movie about Hypatia of Alexandria that I would have made… …but then again, it’s impressive that a movie about Hypatia has been made at all. And that they had the very good sense to… Continue Reading
I’ve literally no idea how I found this story. But it sent chills up my spine.
The cover story from this month’s Atlantic is deeply depressing. And, I can tell you from my (comparatively) brief experience with unemployment, based on a very real psychological phenomenon. Back after The Wife and I moved to Tennessee and discovered… Continue Reading