What “Doesn’t Belong?”
This entry marks the end of an unofficial series, written as more or less a PostScript to the book I just published on Amazon called "Human Sense" and intentionally timed to go live over...
Divide et Impera
As I promised in my last entry, I've spent the last week researching. I haven't bothered to waste much time gathering data or building spreadsheets on who holds the greatest amount of America's debt,...
Impugning Impunity
If you have somehow avoided the incessant drumbeat of hate, anger, vitriol, and an endless Litany of lies and half-truths coming at us like a fire hose, consider this notification that a national election...
Human Sense: Pt. I – On The Governing
Humankind is arguably the most enigmatic species on Earth; the greater our successes with individual sovereignty, freedom, and liberty, relying on our inherent free will-driven pursuits of living self-determinate lives, the more readily we...
Human Sense: Pt. II – On The Governed
Of the things that might be said about our species, the last surviving species of the genus Homo, what we know cannot be summed up in an introductory paragraph any more than could the...
Human Sense: Closing Arguments
Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the defining inspiration for the creation of this pamphlet, Human Sense, was written to put before the Common Man a simple question: Should the American colonists reconcile their differences...
Human Sense: Introduction
Two and a half centuries ago, the American ruling Authority "marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists." The armed aggression against the citizenry...
Betraying A Nation: Pt . 3- Paine On America
In the first half of Part III, Paine puts a great deal of effort into trying to provide some perspective on the nature of relationships. He understood that, in a civilized society, there are...
Betraying A Nation: Pt . 2- Paine On Hereditary Succession
Before we get into the fine print of Part II of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, it's worth taking some time to look a little closer into this man and how it was that he...
Betraying A Nation: Pt . 1- Paine On Government
Betraying a Nation, a simple expression consisting of a mere six syllables, will take many thousands of words to describe, explain, and put into context as it relates to modern America. It's going to...
