The Roberts Rule, consequences
By: 1stRichard (Diary) | July 8th at 02:21 PM |
For most, the majority I see are too caught up in their personal lives to care much or to know. They do not know Justice John Roberts, the function of the Supreme Court and care much beyond, that is over there thus it does not concern me over here. You may see them occasionally caught on camera or know them personally, they do not know | Read More »
Separation of Church and State, again
By: 1stRichard (Diary) | March 4th at 01:07 PM |
Yet again we must have this discussion due to current affairs Fundamental to our nation, as written in our state Constitution by John Adams, second president of the United States who drafted our State Constitution, “As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused | Read More »
Halloween Nor’easter, the masks come off in the Nanny State
By: 1stRichard (Diary) | November 6th at 01:11 PM |
As I write this, I can look out my window at the buss stop where schoolchildren once stood, now obliterated by a branch with more barely hanging on and certain death for the frail. In conversation with someone down the street, he said that he would call to have the school bus stop moved to a safer place. I know of at least ten years | Read More »
The political spectrum, the center of Conservatism, why it matters
By: 1stRichard (Diary) | July 25th at 10:44 AM |
Conservatism is generally accepted as Constitutional Center and slightly to the right. However, there are two Constitutions, to the left of Constitutional Center are the living document theorist and the realist that looks at the original intent on the right. The political spectrum in the United States is based in a set of beliefs that dates back before our second Constitution, our Constitution was formed | Read More »
The American Dream
By: 1stRichard (Diary) | February 27th at 09:51 AM |
Welcome to Holyoke Massachusetts, a city built on individual opportunities, the liberty to work and be rewarded for it. Four and a half miles of canals and a dam were dug by pick and shovel. By the 1900s, Holyoke was one of the first planned industrial cities in the world, it ran on waterpower and she was named the Queen of Industrial Cities. Holyoke Massachusetts | Read More »
Beware of the Populist
By: 1stRichard (Diary) | February 26th at 08:41 PM |
This is not popularity it is populism, and they are as different as good and evil. Populism dates back to Rome, the Populares Party has been considered the origin of both socialism and Populism, the populares, “People’s Party.” Populism is often considered a major factor in the downfall of the great Roman Empire and should be considered one of the most destructive forces in politics. | Read More »