xxx All this occurred over 100 years after the Scottish Protestant Menzies made his case to the English Jesuit Dempster, not knowing that his down-the-nose attitude that would define Puritanism, would enshrine a defining characteristic of government, even…
Category: Teachings
A Letter from Cumberland Gap, Our Last Talk
I had expected a Quickening, but not before Christmas. This is from a Vietnam vet, Infantry platoon leader, college roommate one year, a fine prosecutor, then judge, and a good courthouse philosopher of Thomas Jefferson’s ilk: We will have to…
The Timeline of Freedom, How and Why
I want to tell this story as it was seen and heard the first time in a classroom filled with black mothers, and their babies in a nursery across the hall….in the 1990s. In 1996 I began teaching a…
Killing Rosebushes, How Things Work in Nature by St George Frederick
An old pal, I’d been holding onto this for several years, hoping St George (that’s really his name) would add more to this thought. I invite you to do, as the time is nigh. Killing Rosebushes” by St George Frederick…
As Human Freedom Dangles Precariously from the Tree of Liberty…
…just what are the key elements that certifies that we are a free people, in charge of our own affairs? That has been from the very beginning the down-deep belief common in America since 1787, and still found nowhere else,…