Just the Sin City Saint THINKING OUT LOUD!
“A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” From letter to W. T. Barry, … Read more
“The founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected [Washington; Adams; Jefferson; Madison; Monroe; Adams; Jackson] not a one had professed a belief in Christianity…. Among all our presidents from Washington downward, not one was a professor of religion, at least not of more … Read more
From veto message, February 21, 1811. “Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same, an authority which, being altogether superfluous if the provision is to be the result of pious charity, would be a precedent … Read more
The father of American Freedom.Read more
The site was down for several days for maintenance caused by software updates that screwed up a lot of things. Have completed correcting all the programing errors the updates caused (I hope) and the site is now live again.Read more
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”: Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana Are we “condemned to repeat” 1912 in 2016? The following is excerpted from: History Now: American History Online THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA The Spectacles of 1912 by Patricia O’Toole The presidential election year of 1912 began with one unprecedented spectacle, ended with another. Theodore … Read more
By Jim Schutze http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/letter-from-texas-listen-america-trump-is-just-embarrassing-cruz-is-scary-8095715“… you don’t live in Texas, so you haven’t had a lot of opportunity to hear Cruz’s father speak or pay close attention to his behavior. Please. Google him. YouTube him. Take a look at Rafael Cruz. One of the first YouTube items that will pop up is a strange video of … Read more
The biggest difference between conservatives and liberals over filling the current vacancy on the Supreme Court is perhaps the question of interpretation of the Constitution. Conservatives insist that the Constitution is NOT a living document and the person to be appointed must agree that it’s meaning MUST be read in strict conformity to the ideas … Read more
“… besides all the bad effects tothe country in general, which have alreadybeen mentioned as necessarily resulting from ahigher rate of profit, there is one more fatal,perhaps, than all these put together, butwhich, if we may judge from experience, isinseparably connected with it. The high rate ofprofit seems everywhere to destroy thatparsimony which, in other … Read more