Speech October 9, 2023 (Philadelphia, PA) Thank you, Lewis GrassRope, for that beautiful blessing. Lewis is a tribal elder from the Lower Brule Sioux, the grandson of a signer of the 1876 Fort Laramie treaty. My father visited South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation in May of 1968 and spent the entire day there. A local […]
America: Not Getting our Money’s Worth
Nanny state taxes for Laissez-faire services American political debate within the phony Left-Right parameters usually boils down to one of “big government” vs. “small government.” At least that’s what they tell us. In actuality, the last vestiges of a smaller central government were seen during the Calvin Coolidge administration. Since that time, the federal government […]
“The Pensive and Awful Silence”
Originally published on Courageous Discourse Dr. Benjamin Rush on signing the Declaration of Independence What most of us remember about the Declaration of Independence is Thomas Jefferson’s preamble, which contains many soaring assertions about which lawyers and political philosophers could spend a great deal of time debating. Needless to say, King George and his ministers […]