The journey of a 1,000 miles
“Do people have a right to live?” People ask that question only when they have their answer, usually wrapped in fancy justifications. The blunt conservative answer is, “No!” Filmer and de Maistre demanded obedience...
A question about the Magna Carta exposed sloppiness on my part. The substance of my post ,“3.2 Do People Hold a Right to Exist? Part 2”, is correct. Certain details are not. I will...
With Pope Alexander III’s blessing, William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England defeating King Harold Godwinsom at the Battle of Hastings October 14, 1066. On December 25, 1066 William was crowned King of England. The...
In Grants Pass v. Johnson, 603 U,S,____(2024) the Leonard Leo branch of the United States Supreme Court held that people may be fined or imprisoned for sleeping on public land. Their justification was that...
Why create these posts? Give candidates ten pages of information, their response: “Too Long, Didn’t Read”. People defend their common knowledge answers. “The Puritans came to the new world for religious freedom.” Unless we...
Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1754-1821) Dynamic Equilibrium: Why Tradition Fails Rather than evaluate policies, Burke’s conservatism blamed the public’s abandoning traditional values for the American and French Revolutions. For centuries gradual adjustments to...
Edmund Burke (1729-97) The Age of Enlightenment lasted from 1651 to 1779. It’s defense of reason and individual rights inspired the Declaration of Independence and American Revolution. However, before the Constitution was ratified the...
The Founding Principle of Enlightenment Centuries of intellectual darkness followed the fall of Rome. Religious wars and growing mercantile wealth exposed the limits of the old polity without providing new answers. Westerners typically imagine...
John Locke Part 1 of 5 The liberal river begins with the principles that inspired the Great American Experiment with democracy and limited government. As the framers put pen to paper economic self-interest compromised...
The black and White Aragvi Rivers in Georgia that do not mix, just as the principles of Individual Sovereignty and Sovereign Authority do not mix. Please, a little patience as I begin this story....
