“[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

“Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and, as it did here, inflict great pain. On the facts before

Miss Constitution has written column after column on what constitutes Constitutionally protected Free Speech under the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution.  She assumed that the three Presidents

Miss Constitution has noticed an ad for a company in Alabama that grows cotton, spins yarn/thread from the cotton, weaves the fabric from the fiber, and creates sheets, towels and

Without getting into the very tiresome discussions about the origins of Thanksgiving in America, Miss Constitution finds the Proclamations by Abraham Lincoln in March and October of 1863 to be

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool

Last week in Thlipsis, Miss Constitution posited that the only way out of the volatile situation in the Middle East is understanding how we got where we are regarding Israel,

Thlipsis:  Greek – meaning pressure or distress.  “[T]ribulation produces patience, patience produces character, and character produces hope.”  Romans 5:3-4 Two thousand years ago one method of torture was to put