“Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.” – Deuteronomy 10:19 little over a decade ago my wife and I sat down to figure out where we would be relocating from Georgia for work and school. I actually created a spreadsheet of likely markets and ranked them based on a…
‘Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.” – Eric Metaxas he Civil War has always been an interesting topic for this Northern transplant, raised…
“History fancies itself linear – but yields to a cyclical temptation.” ― Criss Jami hen I started writing, it was never my intention to cover matters of race. My writing is a place for me to explore withdrawing consent from the emerging society. Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, “no one can make you feel inferior without your…
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald hile recently browsing an editorial magazine I was frustrated that the content of each piece echoed the theme expressed in the surrounding pieces. The…
“You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry ain’t coming.” – Chris Gardner y now you’ve probably all heard of the Q-anon conspiracy movement. If not, it’s this idea that in government there exist black hats and white hats, and that this good vs. evil tale as old as time is playing out before our…
“You got to know when to hold ’em, Know when to fold ’em, Know when to walk away, And know when to run.” – Kenny Rogers ashington often refers to the ugly parts of DC as the sausage-making. It is the unsavory process that must take place for us to arrive at an end legislative…
“This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their…
“People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.” ― Jonathan Haidt ast year around the time of the tragic death of George Floyd we saw a very coordinated public campaign on Social Justice in response, that seemingly permeated every facet…
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – Chauncey Depew Last November I launched WithdrawConsent.org as the first step in an intentional journey toward self-ownership and self-discovery. I don’t see a point where this site ever goes into auto-pilot, but I hope that…
“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.”- Edward Coke istorically, capitalism has been denounced by opponents as heartless and greedy. In contemplating this characterization, I find that critics are not necessarily wrong. The profit motive of capitalism is born in maximizing returns, and the system itself is not concerned…
“The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!” – Kurt Tucholsky ack in September of 2007, there was an article on Cracked.com about a scientific theory called The Monkeysphere. I would encourage you to read it in order to provide some context to this piece, but…
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?” ― Ayn Rand n a prior post titled ‘Redefining Our Terms’ I asked you to consider that in a sharply…
“Where there’s a microscope, there’s always a slide.” – Columbo his particular topic may hit home for a particular demo of the Baby Boomer pedigree more so than others. I, myself, am not of that persuasion. And of course, by persuasion, I’m referring to the Columbo fans of the world. If you are, then based on…
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” ― Charles Darwin s I write, Impeachment round 2 of Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States is being deliberated in the United States Senate. No doubt a bunch of…
“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine” ― Fernando Pessoa n a prior post titled The Faustian Bargain, I warned about the dangers of…
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”― Edward Snowden ife is a series of buying and selling. Some things you inherit from birth, like abilities, time, material possessions, or rights. …
hallenging fraud is as American as Apple Pie… or at least it should be. I recently put up this post in a hurry in order to not lose the spreadsheet created, but here is the gist of the post: Following the Capitol incursion on 01/06/2021, the press, the political class and their allies in big…
“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 separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…
ne of the greatest mental hurdles that I find in withdrawing consent is doing so in isolation. A clip from the motion picture ‘The Matrix’ comes to mind, where the protagonist, Neo, is offered a Red Pill and a Blue Pill by Morpheus, the mentor and oracle. Should he choose the Red Pill, his eyes…
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” – Pericles ictured above is a version of ‘The Peaceable Kingdom’ by Edward Hicks. One of 62 versions of paintings by the same title and artist. Hicks was an early 19th Century American Painter and Quaker…