In this special edition of WWGWD I wish to address a problem with the current mindset of a great number of people. It seems that, come election time, people narrow down, in their heads, which two people are the most likely to get elected. They then choose to support the one that the lesser of [...]
Browsing the blog archives for August, 2011
8 Aug 11
John Adams feared ignorance.
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” - John Adams In this quote, by America’s second president, he refers the secrecy in government. He believed that people could not have liberty without the knowledge of what their representatives were up to. I fully believe that John Adams was onto something. Today, with their [...]
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5 Aug 11
The Unconstitutional 3rd Chamber of Congress
James Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution.” Specifically, he designed the Virginia Plan, which called for a bicameral (two chambers) legislative branch of the government. James Madison, and Edmond Randolph (the man who officially put forth the idea at the Constitutional Convention) believed that it was important to have three separate branches [...]
3 Aug 11
If government was too big 2 centuries ago…
“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson Wealth redistribution via the government is nothing new. Thomas Jefferson, however, viewed this not just as a problem in the eyes of liberty, but as a problem with government. [...]
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1 Aug 11
America as Moses
This piece of art painted on an iPad by Jeremy Rosenstein Kortes. As one commenter describes: The car looks like a Mercedes-Benz or Lexus, she has a fancy bag and cell phone, and she had enough money for a tattoo. Whereas Moses mother hid her baby so that the baby would have a better life, [...]
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