Every elected Federal official, The President, Vice President, members of the House of Representatives, US Senators, take an oath of office prior to serving. In addition, appointees to the US Supreme Court also take an oath of office. Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution specifies the Presidential oath. Article VI of the Constitution mandates […]

In the 1960s, civil rights protests were growing, with the focal point being the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on May 4, 1968. Once again, as in the Civil War, Americans fought with Americans, supposedly over a moral issue, the “unfairness” of racial inequality, a seemingly easy to understand principle. The understanding is […]

(Why we should never trust big government) This is not a religious essay. It is a treatise on ethics and, to some extent, morals. It is also a statement of facts about how misinterpretations, many inadvertent but most deliberate, can be the cause of destruction in today’s society. Destruction of personal values; destruction of family […]