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Remember When Foreign Policy Was Principled? – Quotation of the Day

I have been listening to a great series of courses on American History by Eric Daniels. Currently I am in the 4th of the series, The History of America – Part 4: The Industrial Republic, 1877-1920, which is discussing a pivotal period in history when we really started to move towards becoming a mixed economy, welfare state.

During one of the lectures in this course he quotes Daniel Webster, who served two times as Secretary of State and twice declined the offer to be Vice President saying, read more

A Perverse Alchemy

Alchemy: The medieval chemical science, whose great object was the transmutation of baser metals into gold. – Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1914 edition

The debate over possible military intervention in Syria has put on display, for all who can see, the perverse alchemy that has been taking place in this country for at least the past 75 years or more.  Unlike medieval alchemy, which sought to convert base metals into valuable gold, the modern, perverse read more

Syria is not Our Fight

Here is the text of a letter I just submitted to the local paper as well as posted to each member of my state’s Congressional delegation.

Dear Sirs:

It is great dismay that I read the news of President Obama’s plans for possible attacks on Syria.  I urge you to oppose any such action.

Firstly, the President should not, and indeed under the Constitution does not, have the authority to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an imminent threat read more