Archive for the ‘History’ Category

Christian nation… right.

Monday, October 1st, 2007

So John McCain is at it again. "I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles, personally, I prefer someone who has a grounding in my faith," the GOP presidential hopeful told the Web site in an interview published Saturday. McCain also ...

The Aggregate Interest

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Truer words are rarely spoken. A delegate is bound to represent the true local interest of his constituents - to state it in its true light to the whole body - but when each provincial interest is thus stated, every member should act for the aggregate interest of the whole confederacy. ...

Irony of this present moment

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

So I was doing a little reading tonight as I was waiting for my laundry to dry. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the ...

My Love Is on the Ocean

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

This song is usually entitled, "Adieu to Cold Weather," and can be dated back to an early English broadside. My love is on the ocean; I think I'll let him swim, For in my heart I feel it, I'm just as good as him; His love is in his pocket' It's a little in his heart; The ...

Religion

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

As to myself, my religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ, all have a different set. The former instructs us how to live well and worthily in ...