Magna Carta: 798 years after Runneymede…
Ideas have consequences and the ideas about justice and liberty under law promulgated in Magna Carta have had some of the most profound consequences in mankind’s history. Originally intended by the English barons as a check upon the authority, privileges and prerogatives of King John, Magna Carta came to...
France & the Revolution for Equality…
For a country founded upon the demand for equality, liberty, and fraternity, that produced The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, that overthrew a regime based on special privilege… the reports of thousands marching in Paris against extending equality and equal rights for all are...
Thoughts on Gov. Gary Johnson’s Huffington Post article: "Standing Still on a Down Escalator"
“Standing Still on a Down Escalator” is an excellent piece by the former Republican Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, on the 2012 US Presidential Election, on its issues and outcomes and what divided the Republicans and Democrats – and why he ended up as the Libertarian Party’s candidate....