Two Joe Schmoes

"It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtuein the people." - Richard Henry Lee, letter to Colonel Martin Pickett, March 5,1786Time for me to address the second in the series of virtues and vices. To recap, our Founders realized and understood that for a people to b

I'm interrupting my stream of thought yet again, because at present the Continental Congress '09 is meeting in St. Charles, IL.You can view the live feed here: http://www.givemeliberty.org/CC2009/default.htmAny lover of liberty and freedom, and any serious student of the Constitution as well, NEEDS

"If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never beenslav'd. This will be their great Security." - Samuel Adams,letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779As promised, here is the first in a series on virtue versus vice. As mentioned below, for America to return to greatness, we

First, I spologize to you for not posting more often. The realities of raising two boys and looking for work and all the fun of being a stay-at-home dad take precedence over my ranting online in long form.Second - those virtue vs. vice bits will come. Honest.Anyway, I wanted to take this late night

As I said in the last post, America has strayed from its foundation, and everyone knows it. What not everyone knows is that our foundation is based on a solid morality and virtue, as the writings of the Founders will clearly attest. A lot of people on the Left want to equate this with some sort of t

One doesn't need to read much beyond the headline blurbs on the Drudge Report to see that things are not well in this world, and America in particular is in a freefall from Liberty to Tyranny.While there are many groups forming at the grassroots level to fight what is apparently Obama's mad dash to

Lenders made loans without concern for whether borrowers could repay them. Inadequately  informed  of  the  risks  and  overwhelmed by fine print, many borrowers took on debt  they  could not  really  afford.Funny how when conservative talk hosts were saying this last year as the mortgage mess was b

Despite my insistence this evening to watch Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern instead of the State of the (Insert some word other than Union here), I broke down and watched it. And tweeted my tail off.In short, it sounds like the Obama/Biden 2012 campaign is already underway. I found the address to

It's never been a secret that whenever Americans attempt something, they always put their own unique touch on it. There's the gag about how during the space race, we spent millions developing a pen that would write in zero-gravity, while the Soviets merely used pencils. Tales like that (true or othe

Some days, you read a story that just blows your mind. I came across such a story this morning concerning none other than Russian PM Vladimir Putin. You know, the former KGB officer, fanatic angler, and strong leader feared to be bringing the old Soviet rule back?He's issuing a warning to us. No, we