Founding Principle

Please help me understand.  My ignorance and naivety must be blinding me to the obvious.  I simply must be just lazy in my thinking. I know I always just boil issues down to their essence and go with that.  For instance, forty or so years ago, I realized, to myself,…

I have a ritual when I vote.  I’ve been going to this polling station since April, 2000.  So with primaries and such and regular elections, I’ve been a couple of dozen times.  It’s on a quiet street, not much traffic, right next to some woods with an old plantation house…

Motivating the disadvantaged is the one thing that can defeat the Loyalists.  The disadvantaged have the numbers to vote them out.  Motivated with the rally cry, “All are created equal.  America’s Founding Principle!”  Motivated by knowing we mean it.  The disadvantaged came out and we won in 2008 and 2012,…

I’m prejudice. You’re prejudice. If we’re human, we’re prejudice. Prejudice is short for pre-judging. Judging a current situation based on past experiences or knowledge. Prejudice has allowed us to survive. If someone or something looks or acts like something that hurt us in the past, we’d better pre-judge. For our…

I don’t believe “all men are created equal” is a literal or technical or semantical phrase. I believe it is an existential phrase. I don’t believe it was meant to be broken down, piece by piece and studied under a microscope or as a field experiment. Instead, it was to…

Why is our Founding Principle not mentioned when our Right to Life is taken?  Gunned down at school or church or just sitting out on our front porch?  Isn’t Life the first Unalienable Right?  You’d think our Founding Principle would be worth a mention.  You’d think we could make the…

Police, firefighters, servicemen and women, law makers and enforcers should all get special treatment.  We should have a national holiday or week or month to honor their service and sacrifice.  They should be respected and revered every single day.  They try to balance the heavy burden of Justice and security…

Please excuse my emotional oscillations.  Sometimes a cheerleader, sometimes Debbie Downer.  I believe all of us can have Hope and hopelessness at the same time.  We can carry idealism and reality in the same bucket.  Happy and sad, weak and strong, philosophical and Pollyanna at the same time.  We are…

All of these sentences, throughout this whole blog, I’m not sure where they go.  Priorities in question.  What’s next, should this go there?  My gosh, there’s so much, which part, more important?  Confusion sets in, my head’s in a whirl, somewhat in a fog. Then a Peace came upon me. …

This pen cannot write, so you can really see, the tears in this old man’s eyes.  Too sad for mere ink, too deep for mere paper.  This pen, not as strong as we need. From this page that I write, I can’t fire a flare.  This pen, not that mighty. …

Excuse me sir, I wonder if you could help me?  I guess I’m not from around here.  My destination’s not on this map.  Everyone I’ve spoken to, they just shrug their shoulders.  They’ve heard of it, just don’t know where to find it.  Like Atlantis or Shangri-La, it seems to…

This War on Terror.  How does it end?  Does anybody know?  Where does it stop?  When will we see the headlines, “War Over!  Terrorists Surrender!”?  Have we noticed that there is no land to occupy, no flag to take, no dictator to eliminate to end this war?  Do we realize…

Try to imagine what it was like. July 4, 1776. You’re a patriot standing on the streets of Boston or Philadelphia. Maybe Stillwater, N.Y. or a farm outside of town. You hear the news. America has declared our Independence. We have declared to the world we are no longer kingsmen.…

I can’t imagine what it would look like through the eyes of that young lady on July 4th, 1776. She was there at our country’s celebration with the birth of this new nation. I wonder, could she see all the joy and the back-slapping, the spring in their step and…

I’m a thirteen year old boy in Mosul, Iraq. ISIS fighters in my house, using my family as cover from coalition forces. If I survive, a lifetime of choices in my future. My eyes wide open, my brain in high gear. Our coalition struck, the fighters, now gone. My Mother,…

I don’t really like to write this blog.  I don’t like putting myself out there.  I know I’m not very good.  I’m trying to convey the most beautiful song in the world and I can’t carry a tune in a bucket.  But I’ve discovered the cure to what ails us…

Warning:  This letter has the ability to insult most people on the planet.  It can seem anti-religion, anti-race, anti-country or creed, anti-sewing circle and anti-family.  Anti-any of the groups we belong to.  I can assure you, it is not.  It is only anti-divided, anti-separate, anti-apart.  It is meant to promote…

Fake news, witch hunt, deep state, slippery slope, Obamacare, Benghazi. We despise this propaganda tactic.  Say the same lie over and over again thinking people can be hypnotized into believing it.  It’s a shame when people use this tactic and a shame when people fall for it.  But keep saying…

I guess I’m forced to defend the Nazi’s Right to Free Speech, even though I hate the message.  Forced to defend Alex Jones and the KKK, Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham, most all of Fox News, and yes, even some foreign government’s Right to Free Speech in America, even if…

We must stop this now!  I’m not going to wait for another bloody Revolution.  I’m not going to wait for another Gettysburg to occur.  I’m not going to wait for the concentration camps to get full.  All these deaths, all these wars, all this suffering, to decide just one notion. …

I’ve held out hope through all the numbers.  But I think I’ve run out of numbers.  We’ve gotten to billions world-wide. I’ve just about run out of hope for the loyal Trump base because of the mountain of proof of their blind loyalty.  It doesn’t matter what morals this man…

Hello, it’s Corporal Buzzkill.  BREAKING NEWS – Trump and Russian collusion aren’t the problem.  Arresting him and banishing them all might sound great.  It’s gratifying to see him screw up.  It’s like “Tune in tomorrow to see what else he does stupid”.  It’s almost entertaining.  I wish it were just…

Yes, folks, this whole NFL stir revolves around America’s Founding Principle.  The part that says “…all men are created equal…” for the unequal justice part (please see most of my prior writings).  And it also revolves around one of the most important words in this Founding Principle.  Another part of…