Patrick Henry didn’t say “Give me Democracy or give me death” in that Virginia church in 1775. In 1776 Thomas Jefferson did not write that “All men are created equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights, among these the…
Category: 2024 election
Picking at Scabs on the Ship of Fools; A Decade’s Retrospective
In August, 2011 I penned a piece by this same title, kicking off a new site called “Unified Patriots”, which was made up mostly of a group of Baby Boomers, all born before the Beatles came to America, who just…
“I Think I May Say, Without Fear of Contradiction…..”
…was the caption of a famous Carl Rose/The New Yorker cartoon of Adolf Hitler addressing a roomful of uniformed Nazis in the Reichstag in the early days of the then newborn Third Reich, before the outbreak of war. But Hollywood…
The American Theology of Liberty
(First published here in 2015, when Donald Trump first appeared on the scene and animated a body of voters that hadn’t been seen, considered, or closely analyzed for a very long time. (It appears that body of voters were why…
Somebody Had to Go First
The idea has been around a long time that maybe we should reorganize our government by electing presidents from the private sector, from outside the political circles we’ve watched for over 30 years bring cost-effective government almost to a standstill.…