The notion of federalism is that the Constitution grants the states the leeway to set up their own laboratories about governing that do not conflict with the rights it guarantee to the People, (Art IX and X). It helps to…
Category: Conservatism
The “Union” in United States; Thomas Jefferson “Out-Subtles” Napoleon
Every school kid knows, or at least used to be taught, about Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of “Louisiana” from France for15 million dollars in 1803. That was $18 per sq sq mile or a little under 3 cents per/acre. Wow! School…
Toward America’s Next Great Awakening, Rolling Thunder, Part II
I hesitate using the term “great awakening” here lest I get a chewing out by Larry Schweikart, a real historian, for pirating that term, for they were recognized periods in American history. But because they were “events” of the rolling…
Why America Needs Another Great Awakening; a Preface
Now that we’ve been treated to 90 days of witnessing how (un)quickly and (in)effectively government can move once it has declared a “Class 5”-magnitude medical emergency in America, can we agree that the people we’ve elected over the past…
“Want-to”: A History Lesson on Stretching Logic Too Far
As you have noticed, especially on Twitter and other social media, a lot of conservatives of every age lead with their biases to come to a conclusion about underlying facts of conservatism. I call these kinds of biases “want-to’s” for…