Freedom Is Risky, Essential, and Wonderful
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin Source: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the...
View ArticleReviewed: Glenn Beck’s Common Sense and Jeff Shaara’s Rise To Rebellion
Two chapters near the end of Jeff Shaara’s historical novel Rise To Rebellion focus on Thomas Paine’s incendiary pamphlet Common Sense. Shaara even includes a handful of choice quotes from Paine,...
View Article(Don’t) Be Yourself
In an episode of The Simpsons, Lisa tries to warn Homer about becoming obsessed with revenge on an animal, citing Moby Dick as an illustration of such a foolish course of action. “Oh, Lisa,” Homer...
View ArticleRules By Which a Free Republic May Be Reduced To a Socialist One
Despite the scorn leveled at it by the elite mainstream, the Tea Party movement has illustrated something significant about America: we’re fed up with the status quo and its increasing power grabs. In...
View ArticleExamples of Benjamin Franklin’s Saucy Humor
Pretty soon I’ll be introducing my high school juniors to Benjamin Franklin, inventor, statesman, and sage. Of course, there’s so much to his famously irreverent sense of humor that I can’t really get...
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