I wish you the best this holiday. It is sad to think that what was considered proper and just, is now thought to be a violation of someone’s right to freedom from religion, a concept that has no support in either the Constitution itself, or in any of the commentaries from the Convention or elsewhere. [...]
Edmund Burke once wrote,
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the [...]
The formation of a new conservative focus group, the Patrick Henry Caucus, causes me to repost this article, originally written in July of 2004. I think it is important to repost now because of the increasing interest in, and focus on, States’ Rights. For example, Montana has recently passed legislation that would bar the Federal [...]