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… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
…ive, the issue of the beloved ‘Tea Party.” Are we overrun by the “mandates” of the establishment” or does “individualism still reign “king.” Will we ever embrace the liberalism of Steve Jobs, or the rivalry of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson or must we be “enemies” rather than “friends” with a few, maybe many, moderate or extreme, opposites, some “loving” philosophical differences. Consider the idea that there are no paradoxes, only things which…
…er parks. Right now, there is no real story other than Team Cain’s initial clumsy response. I am going to treat this as I treated the original high tech lynching when the left decided to short circuit Justice Clarence Thomas twenty years ago. I viewed the evidence weak then and this is just as weak. Rubio – Another minority Republican on the chopping block. Review the Marco Rubio hit piece in the Washington and you get a pattern. If yo…
…always existed (no big bang)! Very often, the most profound scientific revolutions come about because of the work of lone scientists working in fields sometimes outside of those in which the discovery is made (see the book by Thomas Kuhn, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”). Most of the time, the advancement of knowledge through the operation of the scientific method does not engender controversy. But the current state of global warming a…
… “distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities” and Mr. Crowely is a man of law and order, they will enjoy this treatise on human dignity, and indignity. President Obama might enjoy this film as well, as Sir Thomas More penned the tale “Utopia” (the imaginary island or nation), Greek pun ou-topos [no place], describing political pacts of the imaginary island country. And how about a shout out, Mr. President, to all the men and w…
…to your friends. Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam the gate on America.“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.” Thomas JeffersonYou should all read a column published on April 10, 2009 by Jack Hunter entitled “States Rights and the Left.” It is an interesting insight into the current state of US Economic Policy and creates and interes…
…e that it is the primary cause of the Civil War: i.e. did the states, not the Federal Government have the right to determine whether to be slave or free? Ronald Reagan believed in the amendment more than anything else, as did Thomas Jefferson. It simply states in its entirety: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” There ar…
…the Interstate Commerce Clause is the main reason being used to counter Tenth Amendment arguments on the pending Health Care Legislation. The theory of Nullification goes back a long way. The Kentucky Resolutions, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1798, contained the following which has often been cited as a justification for both nullification and secession: “ … that in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the general governm…
…rts a more assertive, interventionist foreign policy, aimed at promoting democracy abroad. • Limited government conservatism — Limited government conservatives look for a decreased role of the federal government. They follow Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in their suspicion of a powerful federal government. • Paleoconservatism — Arising in the 1980s in reaction to neoconservatism, stresses tradition, especially Christian tradition and the i…
…aed) intelligence and his working knowledge, I’m pretty sure the cause of his intransigence is a hardened ideological confusion about the nature of rights. Does Barack Obama understand the nature of “unalienable rights”? When Thomas Jefferson wrote that among our unalienable rights are “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” he expressed a commonly held belief that rights are both universal and limited. That is, we all have them, but they a…
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