A couple of weeks ago, a chimpanzee – Vanilla –  that had been caged in darkness her entire life, saw sunlight for the first time.  In what amounted to a nanosecond, for those who saw it, the whole notion of goodness and truth flashed before our very eyes.  So this

“This land is stolen land and black people are still not free.”  Cori Bush, Congresswoman from Missouri, regarding Independence Day, July 4, 2023. This is one of those public statements that represents the genius of the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution.  Many nations would ban such a thing

In commemorating the Declaration of Independence, a unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America, an action of the second continental congress, July 4, 1776, it might be helpful to remember that every event leading up to it had to happen exactly as it did for America to be

A professor of history at Harvard has written an 800-page history of the United States using this type of language at the end:  “[C]onservatives. . .make bonfires of rage: they. . . courted the popular will by demolishing the idea of truth itself. . .[they] gained power by telling fables

Spoken by Tommy Lascelles, as Elizabeth II’s private secretary, in The Crown. (Netflix) The rot Tommy Lascelles is talking about is the inclination of modern monarchs in Great Britain to play footloose and fancy-free with the traditions of the monarchy.  This individualism, in Tommy Lascelles opinion, led to various national

Le Mot Juste – saying or doing just the right thing.  Miss Constitution has mentioned Unwritten Law many times as the overlooked bundle that provides positive human lubrication in a multi-cultural society.  One’s tone of voice (even in an email), one’s look, one’s consideration of another person’s feelings, is

During medieval times, roughly from the late 5th century to the 17h century, warfare often involved a siege against heavily fortified castles.  A siege takes patience, a sort of drip, drip, drip as sappers dig tunnels under thick stone walls to gain access to the interior.  By the time the

Last week Miss Constitution, in “Go Kill Yourselves”, reviewed what is Constitutionally protected speech under the 1st Amendment Free Speech Clause of the United States Constitution.  The word “protected” means that the speech cannot be censored by a government actor or a proxy for that actor.  As if on cue,