Misc
Pizza Pistol
For the rest of the semester, a Rutherford County elementary student has to eat lunch at the “silent table” for allegedly waving around a slice of pizza some say resembled a gun. Nicholas Taylor attends David Youree Elementary School in Smyrna, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville. School leaders say the 10-year-old threatened other students…
Read MoreLet’s Talk About Firearms Safety
Before I delve too much into this subject, I need to make one thing very clear. Firearm safety is not a joke. I take it very seriously. I make it clear to everyone I take shooting that familiarity with firearms has not bred contempt for them within me. However, I do not take the way…
Read MoreControl
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and…
Read MoreToo Many Parasites
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Ludlow September 6, 1824
Read MoreWe Should Have Fine Times
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the…
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