The last clear function of man … muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need – this is man. To build a wall, to build a house, a dam and in the wall and house and dam to put something of Manself, and to Manself take something back from the wall, […]
An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts the human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of […]
Baby, breakdown, go ahead and give it to me Breakdown, honey, take me through the night (baby, baby, breakdown) Breakdown, now I’m standin’ here, can’t you see? Breakdown, it’s all right It’s all right It’s all right Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Breakdown The Federal court system is running out of operating money this week […]
This is a song about the scary things you see from the corner of your eye Don’t you ever wonder why We never talk about the future, we never talk about the past anymore We never ask ourselves the questions to the answers that nobody even wants to know Yes, the honeymoon is over So […]
‘Justice’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. “… the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments.” Merriam Webster definition of ‘Justice’ Mueller, arriving in a starched white shirt, brings competence and order to an otherwise lawless house party. The kids are sprawled […]
It’s a mad dog promenade So walk tall Or baby, don’t walk at all Bruce Springsteen My Dad’s favorite latin words were “nunc pro tunc”. It all started after Duane Moorman’s trial. A jury had returned a verdict of $3 million in Duane’s case after the Ford pickup in which he was traveling in rolled over. […]
I like to blog about the dark side of history and our penchant for violence in defense of our freedom – blood watering the tree of liberty and all that. See, my series on ancient history (before Magna Carta, the first document to guarantee the right to jury trial) when all disputes were resolved on a battlefield […]
I am the people – the mob – the crowd – the mass Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes. I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from me and […]
A man’s power to connect his thought to its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss. Ralph Waldo Emerson The whole thing had been a mistake from the beginning. It was if the Old […]
1623, Leyden Jesse deForest, remembered as Jesse the Walloon, was a dyer permitted by law to use color, a high honor at the time. Jesse’s dream was to establish a Walloon colony in the New World free of persecution. Turned down by the American Virginia Colony in 1622 for an expedition of six hundred followers, […]
