“Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”  Henry David Thoreau There is

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” Benjamin Franklin As noted last week in Dry Bones, our unique governance system

“Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry bones!" Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry bones!" Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry bones!" "Oh, hear the word of the Lord." The foot bone connected to the leg

“Why shoot the bridegroom after a shotgun wedding?” – unknown, but a comment made when the Supreme Court changed positions on New Deal legislation when Franklin Roosevelt threatened to pack

"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that

Miss Constitution, along with perhaps a majority of American citizens, are now fully weary of the endless evaluations of American culture and the inane questioning of institute scholars who

Miss Constitution has noticed that confusing words, sentences, paragraphs, and columns seem to be multiplying, leaving the average American anxious about what to believe and who to trust.  She

“[A]dd to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly

"He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention" – Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations.What invisible hand led the President of

“He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat. . .”  Julia Ward Howe, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, 1862. As the national indignities pile up