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This book is both a collection of our founding documents and the author’s personal essays. He believes it is important for all of us to understand the founding documents as finely detailed word guides generated from the Founder's experiences in the wilderness of a life without liberty and those maps need to be reclaimed and relearned. The maps are the original gifts that keep on giving. Understand the maps and where we began and you will understand that we have increasingly ignored the maps and are approaching a national crisis. It is through understanding that we can reinstall our inner compass and regain our sense of purpose. 

You can find my book on Amazon in paperback, Kindle and soon, audio editions!

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What We Were, Are Now and Surely Will Become

In the words of Charlie Brown ARRRRRRRGH!

Enough already!

I am sick and tired of reading about wannabe pretend adults who are really living as a child in a child’s room at very expensive American colleges and universities.

Every time I read articles about these almost adults by columnists, even those I respect, I find myself looking about for a bar of soap to wash out my mouth as my mother would have done.

Where can I find someone in our nation’s institutions who is not just a very well paid adult baby sitter who lives and teaches the philosophy of “He who controls the past controls the future and He who controls the present controls the past.” If you think these quotations sound Orwellian (think George Orwell) you are correct.

Examples of wannabe adults without manners or understanding and who are being cared for by people who are teaching them their totalitarian state philosophy includes all of the following:

Delay, cancel or make optional academic tests for reasons of personal stress?

Breathing space?

Cuddling cats and dogs?

Coloring Books?

Tea and Chocolate?

Therapy Dogs?

Tissues for those who are crying?

Play-Doh?

Safe Places with highly restricted free speech rules that protect their frail sensibilities?

Oh my God! This list is only a current media snapshot. It goes on and on and the brethren of these children are allowed to roam our nation’s cities, streets and roads in mass to curse, defame and castigate the rest of the nation who voted wisely in opposition to their desires and will not now bow down and accept the constitutional challenge presented by these malicious misfits. They are surely safe and truly wrong but the country does nothing, the world laughs and the true adults hang their heads because of what we were and are now becoming.

Wait, swallow this pill too:

I kid you not. I quote from an article I just read that was titled “Juvenile activists sue government over climate change policy”. Are you ready? Eight children are asking a Seattle judge to find the State of Washington in contempt for failing to adequately protect them and future generations from the harmful effects of climate change. The ages of these wonderful scholarly beings falls between 12 and 16 years old.

I am willing to wager that it is quite likely that most of these children in and out of academia settings have not been taught and do not possess even have a basic understanding, appreciation for or respect of the Constitution of the United States.

Watch closely and you will see our nation’s founders and heroes turn over in their graves, kneel and bow their heads in supplication.

I firmly believe that “Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and the twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II”. Source: The Fourth Turning by Strauss and Howe

Pardon me as I leave you now to sit in the darkness of my hallway closet and shake my head a lot, curse a little and weep silently for what we were, are now and what we will surely become. 

Choose Wisely

Near the end of the movie, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, a character portraying extreme greed for material gain is only a single choice away from the real plum, his personal immortality. All he had to do was correctly choose the chalice from which Jesus drank from the many in front of him and everything would be his. To put it mildly, things did not turn out as he expected and the ever faithful knight who was the centuries long guardian of the chalice’s on display said the only three words needed to be remembered from that film. With dignity and a touch of sorrow he said “He chose…poorly”.

Another example of choosing poorly can be found in the biblical story of why the Jews were forced to wander in the desert for forty years. According to what I have read, Joshua and Caleb were selected along with ten other men to explore the Promised Land to give a report to Moses and the people. The explorers were gone for 40 days. Ten of the men saw only potential troubles, and possible failure. Joshua and Caleb tried to get the people to believe that the same Lord that got them out of Egypt would keep them safe. God, in this story became angry because the people did not trust him to do what he said he would do.

For their wickedness and ungratefulness, “God judged the people of Israel by making them wait 40 years to enter the land” which had been chosen for them. He promised that every person 20 years old or older would die in the wilderness with two exceptions. Caleb and Joshua would survive. (“Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun”)  This curse or promise came true and Joshua led the people across the Jordan River into the Promised Land after the death of Moses forty years later. At least two men of the twelve indeed chose wisely.

Is there a parallel story in the nation called The United States of America? I really do not know. Written history does, however, speak of a man named John Winthrop who preached a sermon from the deck of a ship named Arbella that directed the listener to visualize a “City upon a hill”. Clearly a city on a hill cannot be hidden. In his sermon, Winthrop clearly expressed our nations “exceptionalism” and our sociopolitical separation and superiority when it is compared to the Old World and that world is indeed watching us still.

As Ronald Reagan said in his farewell address to the nation (1/11/89), “I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life” … “God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”

President-elect John F. Kennedy said, in an address to the Massachusetts Legislature on January 9, 1961 I have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arabella [sic] 331 years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a government on a new and perilous frontier. “We must always consider, he said, that we shall be as a city upon a hill -- the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, State, and local, must be as a city upon a hill – constructed and inhabited by men aware of their grave trust and their great responsibilities.

Carefully note that neither of these modern day presidents spoke of this nation as a democracy. It is not. It is a constitutional republic. Those who would have you to believe that our constitution provided for democracy are historically mistaken.

“A democracy is an assurance of mob rule where minority factions lose their liberty through legislation and when power is consolidated over the subdued masses.” James Madison wrote about this in The Federalist Papers #10. Madison also added “the ancient democracies never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny.”

John Adams our 2^nd President stated “Democracy, while it lasts, is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

Abraham Lincoln our 16^th President stated “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

History has taught us and continues to teach us that it is “We the People” who must and will choose to save or destroy our nation. It is our responsibility to vote and to choose wisely.

As you vote, remember to consider the final stanza’s words in the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

                             “I shall be telling this with a sigh

                             Somewhere ages and ages hence:

                             Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---

                             I took the one less traveled by,

                             And that has made all the difference.

We are the latest people to live in the shining city on the hill and there is much for us to trust in our constitution and our inalienable guaranteed rights. Success and failure for future generations still remain in our hands. Consider carefully which of the two candidates before us will prove to be the best for the lifeblood of our remarkable nation.

Free Speech Is an Unalienable Right

A man’s refusal to stand for the Star Spangled Banner began as a personal protest. Fueled by conscience and anger the visible silent protest has now spread to every corner of our nation. It carries news power equal to our search for a new president.

At the very core of this protest is Amendment 1 of this nation’s Bill of Rights which was born of necessity because the founders sought a way to prevent “misconstruction or abuse of its powers” and to secure “the beneficent ends of the institution” which is our government.

Amendment 1         “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or the press, or of the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.”  (Ratified On December 15, 1791)

Lost in almost every published discussion related to this protest is the obvious lack of understanding of the intent of the amendment. The amended Constitution does not say that you have to like, approve or support what someone does or says. It clearly states, however, that the words or demonstrations of individuals or groups as a method of protest are supported and protected by the Constitution.

I do not personally support the protesters or the issues they are raising. I morally and ethically do support their right to do so. If they cannot do so, we are in a world of hurt and our time as a great nation is nearly done.

Is there anyone out there who would care step forward to delete the First Amendment from the Constitution? How about the Second Amendment? Do you also see others we can do without?

I choose to use unalienable instead of inalienable because that is the word used in The Declaration of Independence. Both words are defined as, unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.  My use of the word unalienable will become apparent when it is read in context. The rights in question were endowed by their Creator not men and cannot be undone. Re-read the declaration again and you will see what I mean.

Progressives Versus Truth in Trump Campaign

Television’s X Files stated "The truth is out there". Truth is earthbound too but as Ayn Rand has pointed out, “The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”

Donald Trump, not my favorite primary candidate, benefitted greatly from progressive media’s feigned supportive coverage. He won his party’s presidential primary, possibly because his opponents became almost invisible in the hours of progressive media’s free exposure. However, Mr. Trump failed to comprehend visual and print media’s profit and manipulation motives for providing it. Profiting from their clearly Cheshire cat coverage of his campaign these media outlets will now reuse what he did and said to win the Republican nomination to destroy him and again turn a profit and manipulate desired outcomes. Consciously observe progressive media joined at the hip by progressives from both political parties. They are conspiring to hand “The Donald” his own head on a platter and Time magazine presented him as a wax caricature’s melting head. This is the American version of the highly stylized Japanese dance drama called Kabuki.

Lost in all of this high drama is the yet to be determined historical cost to all of those once passive, quiet people who perceived in him a man committed to representing what they felt was theirs by virtue of “unalienable” and “endowed by their creator” rights spelled out in our founding documents and our nation’s history Those people took a collective inward breath and turned wildly demonstrative and he rode their wave. With his and the people’s voices now being marginalized and ridiculed, the word of the day in all of progressive media is ‘Gotcha’!

Progressive media’s manipulations are neither the beginning nor the end of this story. Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come.

The Electoral College

Andrew Jackson (1824), Samuel J. Tilden (1876), Grover Cleveland (1888) and Al Gore (2000) all won the national popular vote in the election years following their names but each failed to become President of the United States. The cause for each loss has been examined and linked to a constitutional process known as The Electoral College.

Three strongly held presidential beliefs from our early beginnings are perfectly clear. First, it was believed that the selection of a president should be the responsibility of those who were most knowledgeable and informed from each state. Randall G. Holcomb put it this way: “The process was never intended to be democratic. The first presidents were appointed by elites, not elected by the masses…” Secondly, the selection was to be determined “solely on merit and without regard to State of origin or political party.” Third, “The office should seek the man the man should not seek the office”.

Consider the historical context of a nation just getting started.  We were a nation of 13 new states wanting to be in charge of their own destiny and each possessing a low trust of a “national government”. We had a much smaller population and it was spread out across a thousand miles from north to south. We experienced very real poor modes of transportation and we experienced poor communications with each other. On the other hand, we created this nation without the presence of established political parties because political parties were extended very little respect. 

The beginnings of the Electoral College can be traced to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. That convention, sometimes called the Philadelphia Convention, took place between May 25 and September 17, 1787 and remains as the only one ever called in United States history. During this convention, the delegates found a common ground compromise between three possible methods of selecting a president. Only experts would be designated to select the president and the vice president.

1.     Congress should choose the president. This was rejected because of potential “hard feelings”, “political bargaining”, possible “corruption”, possible “interference from foreign powers” and “balance of power between legislative and executive branches”.

2.     State legislatures should choose the president. This was rejected because the president might find cause to “beholden to the State legislatures” and the possible dilution of “federal authority.”

3.     A direct popular vote should choose the president. This was rejected because it was feared “that without sufficient information about candidates from outside their State, people would naturally vote for a ‘favorite son’ from their state or region.”

The language used in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution shown below created the foundation for the implementation of the Electoral College ‘experts’ concept.

Article II Section 1

“Each state shall appoint, in such a Manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed as an Elector.”

The term “Electoral College” does not appear in the Constitution nor does it appear in Amendment XII which became clearly necessary following the results of the election of 1800. At that time each candidate for president and vice president ran alone. The presidential electors of 1800 (the Electoral College) failed to “distinguish between the office of president and vice president on their ballots” Thomas Jefferson won the presidential election with 73 electoral votes. Aaron Burr running as the vice president candidate with Thomas Jefferson also received 73 votes for president making the vote for the presidency a tie. In the case of a tie the Constitution requires an election to be decided in the House of Representatives. Jefferson finally won but only after 36 votes. Amendment XII to the Constitution was written and ratified to ensure that the electors make a discrete choice between their selections for president and vice president.

While confusing to many people, when Americans vote for a President and Vice President, they are actually voting for presidential electors, known collectively as the Electoral College. It is these electors, chosen by the people, who elect the chief executive. The Constitution assigns each state a number of electors equal to the combined total of the state’s Senate and House of Representatives delegations. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. 170 electoral votes, an absolute majority of one more than half of the total electors, is required to elect the President and Vice President. The process for selecting electors varies throughout the United States. Generally, the political parties nominate electors at their State party conventions or by a vote of the party's central committee in each State.  Electors are often selected to recognize their service and dedication to their political party. They may be State-elected officials, party leaders, or persons who have a personal or political affiliation with the Presidential candidate.

This is what happens to the vote you cast in the popular election of a President:

“After the November election your governor prepares a “Certificate of Ascertainment” listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of the respective electors. The certificate declares the winning candidate in your state and shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors. Your state’s certificates of Votes are sent to the Congress of the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election. Each state’s electoral votes are counted in a joint session of Congress on the 6^th of January in the year following the meeting of the electors. Members of the House and Senate meet in the House Chamber to conduct the official tally of electoral votes. The Vice President, as President of the Senate, presides over the count and announces the results of the vote. The President of the Senate then declares which persons, if any, have been elected President and Vice President of the United States.”

Article II Section I of the Constitution was seen as in the best interest of the United States by the founders. It cannot simply be removed because it is a part of the original Constitution. There have been several other election processes offered but none have been passed by Congress and sent to the States for ratification as a Constitutional amendment.

A Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution is also called an Article V Convention, or Amendments Convention. Under the most common method for amending the Constitution, an amendment must be proposed by a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states.

Carefully read Article V of the Constitution shown below. There is a second method. The second method is less familiar to most people, because it has never been used. The language makes it perfectly clear that the several states legislatures have been given the same rights as Congress to call for a convention to consider amendments to the Constitution.

Article V language follows below:

“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which in either Case shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by Congress…”

Hopefully this article has led you to a better understanding of your Constitution and the Electoral College process. I do not believe the Constitution of the United States is out dated or quaint, or a living document subject to change with the times. I remain in awe of the skillful men who nurtured it from draft through its eventual ratification on June 21, 1788. Those men gave us a gift which keeps on giving. It remains in my mind as a national map. From its ratification to today our Constitution is 228 years old and is still here to protect us from ourselves. 

Truth as a journey on a winding road

Confronted by written and spoken words  in direct opposition to what I was taught and believe to be true, I usually turn to a search of current and historical truths. Some of us, and I am one of those people, simply need to verify what we believe. In doing so, we often learn more than what we knew before. In the hands of a good journalist truth is power. It is a power that presents itself through a careful and honest process of discovery. Truth is easily accessed by using the six single word questions used by journalists: Who(?), What(?), When(?), Where(?), How(?), and the all important Why(?). After the search, the newly gathered or perhaps merely forgotten results often cause me to pause and reflect and think to myself,  I didn’t know that.

David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson is responsible for my search for the truth confronting revisionist’s writings dedicated to attacks on our nation’s founders, especially Thomas Jefferson, as evil slave owners. Surely there is obvious truth to the contrary. A new reading of Thomas Paine’s timeless masterpiece, Common Sense, reminded me of the clearly stated reasons for our separation from England and it also led me to the discovery of the crystal clear reason why there is no king in America. A quick review of the history behind the Bill of Rights surprised me yet again. The questions asked and answered have, once again, proved refreshing.

My journey began with Scott Rohter’s January 2012 article “Life, Liberty and… the Divisive Issue of Slavery”.  Rohter moved directly to the point when he immediately asked “Why did the Founding Fathers use the words Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Declaration of Independence instead of the words Life, Liberty and Property?

Life Liberty and property are both found in English common law and the writings of English philosopher, John Locke.   Locke’s written ideas became the foundation of the Whig Party in America and these words are also the original language source used by Thomas Jefferson as he wrote the Declaration of Independence.  Why indeed.

For clear and good reason, property rights were not mentioned as one of ‘self-evident truths’ and a part of the ‘unalienable rights’ endowed by our Creator.

When carefully read, Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution gets at the heart of the matter.  It was clear that the six Southern states would never have agreed to ratify the Constitution because the language threatened their ‘property rights’. The remaining seven northern states did not wish to “prolong the unconscionable sin of slavery” nor support “property rights which included the ownership of people. In fact, most northerners felt that the whole idea of ‘owning’ another person was wrong.”

Clearly, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin the primary drafters of the Declaration of Independence avoided taking a position either in favor or against slavery by substituting “the Pursuit of Happiness for Property for good reason.

In the attempt to build a nation, it was recognized that the issue of slavery was not to be decided at that time. It was, without a doubt, recognized for what it was but there was a nation waiting to be born. It was not an act of hypocrisy or malice. It merely postponed the confrontation of the issue. There is no reason to believe that these men supported the concept or reality of slavery. It can and has been demonstrated that there was a strongly held belief that the Southern states would come to understand the error of their ways and a nation could be given life. Sadly, while this evenly considered approach to the issue of slavery eventually led to the ratification of the Constitution,  it also proved powerless to change the minds of those who continued to hold their human property. It was interesting to learn here that “this ideological division would become the basis for our two party political system.” History reveals that “Democrats believed in owning slaves. Republicans did not.”  How do you explain the polar shift now voiced by today’s self proclaimed Democratic race protectors?

It is important to remember that even after the Constitution was ratified by nine of the original thirteen colonies, one of the first necessary acts of Congress was to pass a Bill of Rights. The issue would be revisited in the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. It is there that you will see Life, Liberty and Property “used for the first time in American law. But … and but is important!  But the Constitution had been ratified and the nation had been established. Our Founders were not racists, period. They did what was expedient to bring states and peoples together to build a nation not to perpetuate a wrong, Alas, we are all aware that another crises would arise in the form of a Civil War in beginning in 1861.  This dramatic conflict again focused on owned property and it came at a great cost but it did finally move the will of the nation forward again and away from slavery.

The search for truths is almost always a journey on a winding road. I eventually found myself focusing on The Bill of Rights because its creation insured that all thirteen colonies not just the original nine as noted above would eventually ratify the Constitution and set our nation on its desired course. It was not a short journey. Our Constitution was written in the summer of 1787. Rhode Island did not even send delegates to this convention. Even that was not a done deal. By 1788 only 9 states had ratified the Constitution. Virginia and New York still had not ratified.  Rhode Island and North Carolina continued to refuse to ratify until a bill of rights was in place even though James Madison had promised that the bill of rights would be added after ratification. In June 1789, Madison finally kept his promise and proposed a series of amendments to be debated in the first Congress and we had our first ten amendments to the Constitution. You should be reminded that the commitment to ratify by the nine was absolutely necessary. Without the agreement and support of the nine we would have had no Constitution.

In closing there are but two brief points remaining for your consideration.

From Thomas Paine’s Common Sense comes the simple but eloquent explanation for royalty in England and the absence of a King in America. “But where, says some is the King of America? … He reigns above and doth not make havoc of mankind like the royal brute in Britain,  …Let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the change. …Let the charter be brought forth and placed on the divine law;…let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know,…That in America the law isking….Let the crown at the conclusion of the ceremony be demolished and scattered among the people whose right it is.” Because of Paine’s words you now have a better understanding of  the phrase used today: We are a nation of laws.

From the Billofrightsinstitute.org/founding documents/constitutional, James Madison is quoted as seeing at least one important difference between European freedom documents and our Constitution.”In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example… of charters of power granted by liberty.”  

Those of you who read this blog at an earlier date probably recall that at this point I was critical of the president because earlier comments by him led me to believe that he did not believe that the United States was unique. First of all I used the wrong word. I should have used the word exceptional. Secondly I have reviewed additional speeches and must acknowledge that he has, indeed, on separate occasions spoken positively about what makes America exceptional. I have, therefore, deleted the entire accusation because what I have said was not accurate and that was unacceptable.

Progressive vs.Liberal

Progressive vs. Liberal

It is important for you to understand a simple fact.

There is a clear, significant and dangerous difference between a classical liberal and a progressive!

It is time for you to stop inaccurately labeling progressives as liberals.

Please take the time to learn and appreciate the importance of the difference.

Simply copy and paste the URL below into your search engine and then read and learn! 

It is not the entire lesson to be learned but it is a heck of a good place to begin.

www.heritage.org/firstprinciples/ Progressivism-and-liberalism

Enter Stage Left

“All the world’s a stage,

And all men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts…”

“As You Like It” Act II Scene VII

William Shakespeare, 1564 -1616

Our nation’s men and women are troubled and struggling with what they are seeing, hearing or experiencing first hand. It is not difficult to understand why. Neither is it difficult to notice that many have turned, in desperation, to the safety of “I wish” for solace. There are several problems with ‘I wish’. The most obvious is the old adage “Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.”

History is filled with men and women who pinned their desperation, hopes and wishes on the likely existence of an all powerful elixir. Elixir has been defined as a flavored liquid used for medicinal purposes. Ancient alchemists also sought a preparation that was believed capable of changing metals into gold. Others sought a preparation to induce love. The early Greeks saw it as a powder for drying wounds. Elixir was sought by many because it was believed that the right combinations of unlike extracts, tinctures and powders would, when matched correctly, cure all diseases. The wish and therefore the hope for the “cure all” was widely sold to many who had become convinced enough to believe and trust. Most of the believers merely discovered they had been cheated. Many of them died.

The word flimflam comes to us from old Norse as a lampoon or mockery. During the sixteenth century it was understood to be nonsense or idle talk and a sort of shallow trick that a reasonable person wouldn’t fall for. To the unwary, the flimflam man used it as a distraction to confuse his target customer even as he was being shortchanged. Flimflam is often found in the company of claptrap. Claptrap is defined as cheap, showy language, pure nonsense and silly rubbish. It is almost always displayed by hucksters several of which we can easily identify as political candidates. In all of the debates, both republican and democratic, aired on television to date, I have seen few leaders emerge from behind the shadow of flimflam and claptrap. The daily interactive verbal battle ground leading to the most important office in the free world litters the landscape with wishful thinking, magic, flimflam, claptrap and more than a dash of hyperbole and dishonesty.

We are, therefore, on a collision course with history and in spite of current revisionists, history never gets it wrong.

Observe the current outcomes created by political hucksters preying on the trusting people who chose to believe in them:

the necessity of buyer beware and better safe than sorry,

the reality of spending our future with money printed on demand,

the true cost of something for nothing schemes,

the pain suffered through the loss of self worth and self respect,

the tyranny of a top down government,

the massive underemployment in response to regulations promulgated by agencies accountable to no one,

the stability of continuously improving peaceful race relations of this nation are being reduced to confrontations with the promise of open hostility a mere breath away,

the misuse of constitutionally entrusted power,

the destruction of an internationally respected national health program,

the bold faced lies, always and forever, the inherent and persistent political lies.

Lastly, I believe we have ignored our national moral and ethical compass and the door built for our safety and a possible national maturity is rapidly closing.

I suppose we could accidentally and suddenly rediscover what made us great for such a long time but that too is probably nothing more than wishful thinking. We are close to losing the hundred year war we have been fighting and history is patiently waiting to push the reset button. I fear it could be a very long dark night. 

Perhaps forever?

Woodrow Wilson's Progressive Legacy Is Finally In Question

Just in case you missed it! look for the article 'Utah Senate Votes to Repeal 17th Amendment' by Christine Rousselle at Townhall.com for February 26. The Utah Senate voted 20-6 to ask the Congress to repeal the 17th Amendment. Why is this significant?  "The 17th Amendment was not what the founders of the country had intended and changed the meaning of the role of the senators." This vote is but a small step in a long necessary journey, but it is significant  because the very foundation of our Republic was forever weakened by the creation of the 17th Amendment.

This news is good reason to believe that the significance of the language of the Constitution as originally conceived, written and adopted is finally being reexamined and understood. It is not a living document subject to change because of time and circumstance. Perhaps, if only perhaps,  the conceived Republic as written and defined might yet receive a life saving  transfusion of truth and understanding.

To better understand this Utah vote, turn your thinking to 1913. It was a wonderful year for Woodrow Wilson and all progressives and a horrible setback for those who side with Freedom.

In 1913, Progressives laid the necessary foundation for the intended growth of their basic mind numbing philosophy. The progressive legislative agenda was built the back of three major pieces of legislation. All came to fruition in 1913. Two pieces changed our Constitution and the third provided the  perceived bottomless pit of money necessary to accomplish their goals.  

16^th Amendment FEDERAL INCOME TAX

This allowed the federal government a steady flow of money and removed any further action required by the states.

17^th Amendment DIRECT VOTE FOR STATE SENATORS

This removed the ability of the states as political bodies to limit federal power.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE WAS CREATED  The FED can print money on demand.  This allowed theoretically unlimited leverage on paper money without the acquiescence of Congress.

Freedom Past Present and Future

Questions Are the Answer

Several well known people are on record predicting the 2016 election cycle will become historically recognized and remembered as the most important election in our nation’s history. They also predict the possibility of  a historical turning point, a possible point of crisis and, perhaps, a point of no return.

If these predictions are accurate, it is you “the people” who must choose to affirm that you cherish what you currently possess. Your failure to vote in the company of wisdom will significantly open wide the door that protects you from those who desire to make our Constitution worth nothing more than the quaint ideas of people long dead. Your nation and your world envied way of life hangs in the balance. Are you up to it? Let’s get started. The following is a short list of questions important to your survival as a free person.

Can you name each branch of the government and define its constitutional responsibilities?

Can you define the phrase “unalienable rights” from the Declaration of Independence? Hint: It means much more than they cannot be taken away.

Which historical document contains the phrase “Separation of Church and State”? (Constitution, Declaration of Independence or Neither)

Which government branch is constitutionally designated to approve Cabinet and Supreme Court appointments?  How many votes are required for approval? Why?

The answers to the next five questions reveal the very heart of what progressives and self identified socialists strongly desire to take away from you.

Can you explain the 1^st Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights?

Can you explain the 2^nd Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights?

Can you explain the 4^th Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights?

Can you explain the 10^th Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights?

A Progressive is too Big to Swallow

The “Poor old Lady” by Anonymous: The Poetry Foundation

“Poor old lady, she swallowed a fly.

I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.

Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.”

In an ever increasing frenzy the Poor old lady continues to swallow a menagerie of ever larger insects and animals. Each stanza ends with the same observation. “I think she’ll die”. In the seventh and final stanza, the frenzy ends.

“Poor old lady, she swallowed a horse.

She died, of course.”

Unless you the people turn aside from the incremental step by step progressive rights consuming frenzy, “She died, of course” will predictably and appropriately be written on the tombstone of a nation laid to waste because it foolishly self destroyed its historical beginnings, its strength and,  in due course, itself.

The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 gave all of us the solid foundation of “equality under the law” and it has nurtured us for 240 years. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Note here that it is your right is to pursue happiness. Happiness, however, is not guaranteed!

The point of the foundation is clear.  Progressives, however, actually disdain the declaration’s premise that all people are equal as people and, therefore, have the right to “equality under the law” as its accepted meaning. Remember, this specific equality did not exist in all of history before this declaration was written. Progressives now challenge the “equality under law” interpretation. They are trying to substitute this impartial definition with the artificial equalities of “results” and “conditions” and postulate that the envied resources and perceived advantages earned and possessed by others actually belong to all by “right of existence”!

Consider reading: Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America by James Ostrowski  

Progressivism, Socialism and a Dark Future

It is nearly impossible for me to not laugh outrageously and then convulse in tears of sadness as I view the incredible gullibility of the supporters of both Clinton and Sanders and by extension Obama and all progressives existing in both political parties past and present. For all who choose to follow progressivism and or socialism, their personal freedoms, choice and self determination are soon to be replaced by servitude to the state. Differences of definition, language and anticipated outcomes of progressivism and socialism, as they are currently being presented as rightful replacements for our nation’s constitution, are very slight. And yet, Socialism is clearly the next anointed and preplanned step in the process to captivate and enslave the masses who simply do not understand or appreciate what they already possess. Forgive me here, but the poem shown below popped into my mind and it speaks volumes of practical truth and the truth has never been a consideration of the foes of freedom.

                                                                        Cruel Clever Cat

                                                            Sally, having swallowed cheese,

                                                            Directs down holes the scented breeze,

                                                            Enticing thus, with baited breath

                                                            Nice mice to an untimely death.

                                                                                                            Geoffrey Taylor

With deep regret, I believe our nation’s colleges and universities have become the primary source of applied political correctness and progressive thinking. These institutions have also opened the door to legitimize socialism. Socialism is, by definition, “a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.”

“Socialism should be considered a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism.” Make no mistake here! “Community” is, in reality, the State and the State is our elected government and any government, unchecked, is power without freedom!

It is frightening to watch young people turn away from capitalism and history and speak of their support of dual philosophies which are both alien and destructive toward the guaranteed personal freedoms that have been theirs since birth. They seem to be doing the unthinkable with zero comprehension of what is being laid before them as their entitlement.

I urge all Americans to pursue the light of freedom and relish in its warmth. Do so with the realization that you possess the tools necessary to escape a predictably dark future.