Tax Day Proposal – Let the States Fund the More Perfect Union

By: Tavern Keeper (Diary)  |  April 18th at 01:21 PM  | 

Back when we beat them British there at Yorktown the American nation was a confederation of former colonies each operating under sovereign governments of their own.  The original “gang of” (being 13, obviously) came together first under the Articles of Confederation then later with the Constitution that we know today (or should I say some of us know today . . . present administration, many | Read More »

If we’re to go down, let us go down swinging . . .

By: Tavern Keeper (Diary)  |  April 11th at 11:27 PM  | 

I grew up in rural Mississippi, and was witness to a real American story, fully of both success and failure. My father, like generations of my family before him, was a farmer.  Farming was a profession through which my family and prospered and suffered for generations.  At the time we were suffering, and he made a bold move.  He left that noble and familiar profession | Read More »