Last week PoliTech, a non-partisan student political group at Texas Tech in Lubbock released a video, Politically Challenged. In the edited video host Courtney Plunk asks Tech students basic questions such as, “who is the vice president of the United States?” “From which country did America gain its independence?” and “Who won the Civil War?” […]
Federalist Paper #10 is a continuation of Federalist Paper #9, entitled, The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, in which James Madison argues for the need of a successful Union to “break the control and violence of faction.” According to Madison, these factions are “diseases” born of dangerous vices. […]
According to “Publius” in The Federalist Papers, a faction is “A number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or a majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the […]
“Doctor be trippin’ hard, today, Roscoe.” I’ll never forget those words. I was manning the cash register at Delta Drugs, the pharmacy my dad Roscoe owned in San Bernardino, California. I cleared my throat. Denise was the Nursing Supervisor at Dr. Hawkins’ medical Clinic located a few doors down in the building that he and […]
I spent many hours at Delta Drugs filing paperwork, conversing with clients, reading magazines, standing around doing nothing, ordering supplies and taking deliveries. I got pretty good at pouring cough syrup into bottles and stocking empty shelves. At the time, I was a frustrated and confused young malcontent with a lot of emotional baggage to […]
I’d never seen cremains before. I never even knew that human ashes are called ‘cremains’ until my wife pointed it out to me. It makes sense when you think about it, though. My cousin Billy pulled the heavy, beautifully crafted wooden box from the trunk of his car, and I asked him to open it. […]
The racial doctrine in Lillian’s community was “separate, but not equal.” The men in her life pondered a cruel theological mystery in 1937 when Joe Louis became Heavyweight Champion of the world. How could God allow such a thing to happen? Black people were considered unworthy and inconsequential. There was a ‘place’ for blacks, and […]
Civil Rights and civil liberties: a discussion that begins and ends with the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was a noble, pyrrhic attempt to limit the “tyranny of the national government,” however it says nothing about limiting state’s rights. An individual state’s ability to ignore or refuse to legally implement federal laws is […]
Donald Trump not only gets more network TV time than the other Republicans: he gets more time than all the other Republicans and all of the Democrats combined. I have never seen the MSM show such rank political promotion before. Poor, poor Bernie Sanders. The “liberal media” is a myth found only in the land of […]
Americans sure do love their fucking GUNS! No doubt about it. The gun nuts in Oregon were out in force last week to protest president Obama’s visit to meet with families of the dead students from Umpqua Community College. It was the 45th school shooting of the year. “Prayers not politics” proclaimed one of the […]
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