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The Germ of Virtue

By Aaron Spuler | April 4, 2012

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia: Query 19 1787

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. Patrick Henry Virginia Ratifying Convention June 5, 1788

Why We Have The Second Amendment

By Aaron Spuler | March 22, 2012 |

Some anti-Second Amendment hate page (yup, if you oppose my civil rights, I will call you a hate group) claims that it’s “now easier to buy a truckful of guns than it is to vote.” Assuming Mosin Nagants, small box truck, 10 crates of 20 would be $13,000 plus shipping. I can vote for free,…

A Feeble Executive

By Aaron Spuler | March 16, 2012

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government. Alexander Hamilton Federalist No. 70 March 15, 1788