"If a battle cannot be won do not fight it."  – Sun Tzu, Chinese military leader, 544-496 BC For those of you who are in a state of disbelief regarding the civil institutions of the United States, they have, in fact, been badly dismantled.  If there is any chance

“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.”  George Washington to the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, 1787. The standard George Washington is talking about is the few simple rules for governance found in the very short US Constitution.  What sets the

“What is impossible for men remains possible for God.”  Philipp Jacob Spener, Pia Desideria, 1675. We might take a moment to consider what is before us in the Death of the Queen.  Is there an answer to the seemingly insurmountable hidden in the event?  Are great minds thinking about this

“Have you no ability to be amazed?” – Pope Francis, in speaking recently to a convocation of Church leaders. What is amazing is some of the responses to the death of the Queen.  A Nigerian assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University tweeted that she hoped the last hours of

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” — Gustave Le Bon,

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” Josef Mengele, WWII Nazi SS Officer and physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau, known as “The Angel of Death.” Last week in an article entitled, The Great Ocean of Human Affairs, an analogy was made between

“We are wandering on the great ocean of human affairs.  We are running we know not whither.”  Patrick Henry, speaking to the Virginia ratifying convention, 1788. “We are running we know not whither.”  A more accurate description of the state of our nation could not have been spoken.  No

In Reign of Terror, I gave examples of executive overreach that both attempted and succeeded in overwhelming the Rule of Law. Whether Franklin Roosevelt claiming he is not “packing” the Supreme Court, he is “helping” the Supreme Court, or current federally announced health and other “emergencies” that amount to