You’ve no doubt heard the term “Manifest Destiny”, as referring to the zeitgeist of our Nation as it expanded Westward, more specifically as Americans lined up wagon train after wagon train to emigrate to Oregon and California in the 1840s…
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When is Vigilantism Justified?— “Sky Determines”
I’ve often said that throughout all history “Sky determines” the rules men and their families have to live by when they move into a new place. The physical terrain; weather and natural enemies, define almost everything newcomers have to…
Why Sol Alinsky Knew How Things Work, and Why We Don’t Seem to Anymore
This is a “How Should Things Work?” exercise built upon the body of evidence of How Things Work in reality. Saul Alinksky had to know “how things worked in America” in 1971 before he could draw a list of…
COVID, The Mask, and Fear
Everyone has his or her favorite “mask” story. There’s the guy or gal we see, then do a doubletake when ee notice they’re alone driving in their car, all alone, but still with that mask strapped firmly around the ears.…
“Their Majesties the Mob” and Liberal Hypocrisies of Vigilantism (Revised)
The answer to any conundrum begins with a unified theory The title is from a book published in 1960, while Eisenhower was still president, that title coined by a Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, a Massachusetts observer who wrote…