A flowerpot of ashes from the fire of liberty…tokens of hope and truth preserved for future generations who dare to believe that there was once something else.

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A few random posts…

  • Bureaucracy
    Avoiding the creeping advance of the power and incompetence of bureaucracy - limiting the power of the Iron Law of Bureaucracy
  • “Implication Vector” in historical narrative
    Historical reasoning needs to deal with the direction of the "implication vector" - does a fact about America in 1776 tell us more about 1776 or about America?
  • Fragility
    Regardless of Marxist intentions, the results are inevitable due to the accumulation of power at the core of a Marxist government
  • Energy prices
    A discussion of the relationship between energy prices and economics. Specifically, their role in economic growth and their relationship to "Big Oil"
  • Hermeneutics
    Making the version 2 Constitution even more self-interpreting than version 1; what happens when it is silent AND when it speaks