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Celebrating our country’s 250th birthday on July 3rd and 4th here in Petersburg was fun and exhausting. This town knows how to put on great community celebrations! I appreciated the folks, festivities, and fun, especially hanging out at the voting rights group’s booth, enjoying the volunteers there and the people passing by. I also appreciated the fact that some people were passing out pocket U.S. Constitutions. So I decided to take a deep dive into my pocket U.S. Constitution. What an amazing, enduring, evolving, 239 year old document! I not...
State primary elections are happening and the midterm general elections are fast approaching. Lacking evidence of widespread voter fraud claims, it seems our POTUS is escalating his efforts to get the US Senate to pass the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act, already passed in the House. (Question: what, or who rather, is this act really looking to safeguard?) The pretense is election security, the intended effect is disenfranchisement of millions of eligible citizen voters, and consequently, the Republicans stay in power, and...
What reasons do you have to celebrate our country’s 250th birthday? What thoughts come to mind thinking about Independence Day – fireworks, hot dogs, picnics, fun gatherings, blind rowboat races, log-rolling, bubble gum contests? Imagine two hundred and fifty candles on a gigantic birthday cake that says Happy Birthday America! Pondering the semiquincentennial, the following also comes to mind for me. I think of our democratic republic, governed by the U.S. Constitution, an incredible, enduring document born out of blood, sweat, tears, har...
I do declare the following quotes challenge my independent thinking of American history and current day America. Perhaps these words sound familiar: “...deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...” “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” “He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained...” “...relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature...” “...fatiguing t...
