The Shoulders We All Stand On, a Photo Essay for Millennials
The Law of Generations The Law of Generations is a simple rule about how families in America change from one generation to the next. Unlike much of the world, because of freedoms unique to America,...
View Article“God Bless Her”, A Founding Plank of Becoming American
“Reciprocate with your neighbor as you would have your neighbor reciprocate with you.” The Anonymous Prayer of Blessing Imagine an American Christian is sitting in a small restaurant having a cup of...
View ArticleAmerican Theology Simply Stated; The Transcendence of Liberty
The Transcendence of Liberty I’ve told this story before, of the time in 1991 I attended a birthday party for a law professor at a university in USSR Ukraine. Around three tables pushed together, in a...
View ArticleThis Land is Ours
Yeah, I know. I’ll bet you’re thinking I’m talking about Americans claiming our property rights to America.. The sudden stand-off in Oregon over a ranch-land conviction and jailing, then added...
View ArticleVassar Bushmills Responds to National Review Editorial Screed Against Donald...
Published on Friday, the 69th comment to he NR article, found here; http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430137/donald-trump-conservative-movement-menace My answer, a little slow due to the blizzard:...
View ArticleOn Socialists and Fascists
Watching Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton on stage has caused many observers to draw portraits of two aging socialists, or progressive, as Hillary prefers to be called. This isn’t quite true. Bernie...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the People
(If you don’t like Trump, read the bottom three lines first, for ballast. I’m connecting more than two dots here.) Conservatism and the Sedona Effect In the 1980s, my brother in Arizona called to warn...
View ArticlePicking at Scabs on the Ship of Fools
(This article was first published at UnifiedPatriots.com in August 2011, and is the perfect mirror of how much worse things have gotten with some wings of conservatism. Reprinted here as t appeared in...
View ArticleKilling Rose Bushes: A Campus Dark Alley Strategy
Sit-Rep, 2016 In 1968 I took my final class before graduation, a course based on progressive historian Charles Beard’s interpretation of the Constitution, in which he set forth that the Founders did...
View ArticleYou’re Invited, VASSAR BUSHMILLS ONLINE AUCTION 2/26-3/08
VASSAR BUSHMILLS ONLINE AUCTION, Installment #1 (Please share with friends.) search title: 03/08/2016: Petersburg VA 23831 Online Collectibles Auction I’m selling off my business inventory acquired...
View ArticleLove Him or Hate Him, Give Donald Trump His Due
Love him or hate him, Donald Trump represents a sea change in the way Americans view politics, and the way politics will be played in the next decade. I think this is a good thing. The power of the...
View ArticleEvangelicals Don Full Body Armor to Defend the American Theology
Friday night, Greta van Sustern at Fox News interviewed Jerry Falwell Jr and asked hin to explain why so many evangelicals have chosen Donald Trump over Ted Cruz in the GOP race for president. Just...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Justified Bloody Nose
You know the news story of the Trump supporter who sucker-punched a Trump rally protester. Actually it was more of a sucker-forearm shiver to the chops, which makes more sense inasmuch as the puncher...
View ArticleA Trump-Cruz Slate, Why Donald Trump Should Go First
Excuse me if I’m repeating myself, but I hold to my position that it isn’t just important to win the 2016 election, but the next eight elections, as well. That’s right, 32 years minimum, and Ted Cruz...
View ArticleThe Most Important Truth About Donald Trump
The Most Important Truth About Donald Trump …is that almost everything said about Donald Trump is actually about something else. Several weeks ago I began what turned out to be a series on Donald...
View ArticleWill Establishment Elitism Once Again Hand the Devil a Victory? a Remembrance...
This is one of my favorite “Famous Common People I Have Known” stories (available at Amazon) about a man who personified the turned-up-nose imagery we are seeing once again in this new election cycle....
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