America's North Shore Journal

Lorraine at American Lady is stuck in a poli sci class. One of those where all the questions are answered on the first day and the rest of the semester is spent justifying the answers. Although our “democracy” and “Constitution” unmistakably has flaws, the logic and writings (such as the words of The Federalist) still manage to put shivers up my spine every time. It’s beautifully written, intricate logic, that I doubt ANY writer today could match. It’s much easier for the writers and professors of today to write and lecture against the logic, without really offering solid answers of their own. I could get in trouble for encouraging an 18 year old coed. But, what the heck. You go, girl! … Read entire article »

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, 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 opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just … Read entire article »

Via Done With Mirrors Edmund Burke In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English Colonies probably than in any other people of the earth, and this from a great variety of powerful causes; which, to understand the true temper of their minds and the direction which this spirit takes, it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat more largely. Sometimes, it’s good to remember that people other … Read entire article »