The Moral Majority was a group of Protestant political activists who used some new marketing techniques, mass mailing, to help Ronald Reagan defeat Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. This was before the rise of the internet which would…
Category: Constitution
Donald Trump is “Trying to Save America”
Edmund Burke wrote ““People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.” Today I read that Donald Trump is “saving America”. It’s not uncommon comment on Twitter and Facebook. With that backward glance that Burke just…
The Statute of Limitations, Deep State, Fast & Furious and Killing Citizens
In June, 2012 I wrote “Fast and Furious, Where are the Indictments?” and for some reason two people have read that article in the past two days. So I reread it, and noticed an error of fact about the capture…
UPDATE: 19 JAN: An Outline of the Second Amendment Fight to Come in Virginia
UPDATE: Best piece to date on the Monday rally, by Matt Bracken, Worth heeding, Patriots. Watch yer topknots. From the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a very good, and instructive working list of coming attractions. The Democrats recently took back both…
A Brief Natural History of Historians; Telling a Horse from a Mule
While people are being hornswoggled about the good intentions of journalists, they also should consider similar intentions of some historians. You see, there are the historians who report insights and facts about the past, and there are the journalists who then bake these into confections using their own…