Constitutional Philosophy
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Sunday, April 14th, 2013I’ve always said that liberals and progressives are the little children in American sociopolitical debate because they concentrate on emotion versus fact, logic and reason. But, they reached new lows yesterday when President Obama selected a “Sandy Hook” parent who tragically lost a child during the December 2012 tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School to [...]
The Altar of Maybe
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” –Thomas Jefferson Only despots and tyrants contrive ways to infringe the rights of the people. I was debating gun control as it related to single-incident mass shooting events with an individual last night [...]
The 2nd Amendment: What are “Rights” and are they absolute?
Thursday, March 14th, 2013What are “rights” and are they absolute or not? What is the meaning of unalienable? These are critical questions right now in America because they are being thrown about today like candy from a float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
Debt Limit: Why Pelosi is off base on the 14th Amendment argument
Monday, January 7th, 2013There are two separate issues when debating federal legislation and other actions; can we and should we. The later is a legal argument and the former a philosophical argument. In the case of any president unilaterally invoking the “full faith and credit” clause of the 14th Amendment to bypass Congress it is a legal argument, [...]
Philosophical Musing on American Governance
Thursday, December 6th, 2012“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Thomas Jefferson An unfortunate but not uncommon human failing is susceptibility to emotion. While an occasional dalliance with emotion is understandable, natural, normal and even acceptable, the wallowing in emotion and allowing it [...]
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