It is my right to be uncommon… if I can; I seek opportunity… not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stole calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud, and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, –
“This I have done, and this is what it means to be an American.”
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.
Published in the First Edition of the Federal Observer, July 2002.
These past four years, and more these past two months and days have put pressure on this nation as has not been seen since both our American Revolution of the 1770’s, and our second Revolution of the 1860’s. For me – it has been the days of this week, more than any before them.
When the Americans proposed to establish a government of, by, and for the people, the old European monarchies laughed at the absurdity. Maybe that can work in some ancient Greek city-state, but the world since the fall of Rome has run on a different principle. It was sometimes absolute rule and sometimes rule was constrained by landowning elites. But the notion that people can rule themselves seemed absurd.
I was forwarded a quote, this morning, emanating from a Representative Gene Wu, a Marxist Democrat out of Texas, He said, “Non-whites share the same oppressor, and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.”
Fickle voters just punished Republicans for not delivering everything they wanted in two years. That is the midterm pattern. It is also how countries end up with socialism. 
What happens when the federal department in charge of education spends its time and money prioritizing pie-in-the-sky social issues over meaningful education?
(Recently), the nation’s second-largest school district found that its teachers’ anti-Israel political advocacy in school violates federal civil-rights laws and the state education code. If the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) – with its school board dominated by union-endorsed members, in a blue city and state – can hold teachers accountable, any district in the country can. 
A report claims the company is targeting an entire neighborhood, but will only buy from people who don’t pursue noise pollution complaints.
Hollywood has given us vampires, zombies, mad scientists, masked killers and creatures that emerge from the darkness to prey upon the unsuspecting.
Americans can’t hate Islam enough and those who advocate for Sharia Law within our borders as they demand to see Islam reign supreme over America.
I have spoken many times about how amazing the human brain is, but I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned how we often don’t realize what it is capable of, or how it is performing functions without our ever realizing that it is doing so. Even now, as I sit here typing, my brain is pulling data from multiple regions, then sending signals (kind of like e mails I suppose) along neural pathways to my fingers; which in turn type out what is going on inside my head. All this occurs almost instantaneously; my mind decides what it wants to say, then my fingers type it out; without me giving any thought to the process of how those thoughts get to my fingertips.