Your government promises “rights”. You have lots of them. One is the right to play baseball. If you have a place to play, others to play with you, and a bat and ball, you have everything you need. You have a right to play. But! The game of baseball has rules. Lots of rules. The […]
Perspicacity
There’s a powerful word we don’t hear often. Seeing deeply. Looking into things with intense effort. Sticking to the task of discovering new things. Not being hoodwinked by other people’s clever deceptions. Perspicacious people penetrate problems. They don’t let problems roll over them. They don’t wait for others to fix their problems. They investigate, evaluate, […]
Due Process
What every civilized nation owes its populace—citizen or not. The exercise of state power, in a civilized nation, must be limited in scope and severity. Each person under authority must be guaranteed the security of due process according to fixed reasonable rules that apply equally to all persons with no exception. Those reasonable rules (that […]