American Insights
The Lessons of The Federalist
On Saturday, October 27, 1787, the first of eighty-five essays under the pseudonym “Publius” appeared in the New York Independent Journal. Written by New Yorker Alexander Hamilton, the purpose of...
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The Tragedy of B. F. Randolph
On Wednesday, January 15, 1868, Benjamin Franklin Randolph opened the second day of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention with a prayer. Brief but moving, Randolph exhorted God to “fill...
A mop isn’t enough
Prominent contributors to the income and well-being of this city have incurred massive infrastructural damage to their home due to the city’s lack of proper sewage infrastructure and neglect of care. For over 20...
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James Otis’s Fight
In February 1761, almost four months after George III’s ascension, the first major controversy surrounding imperial policy gripped Boston politics. That month, royal customs agents visited James Otis, a thirty-six-year-old, stout attorney...
Shattering a mosaic
A couple years back, I met someone who told me if I ever had a good idea, to please reach out. So, at the beginning of December of last year, I did just that....
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The Purpose of Government
On Tuesday, March 4, 1913, Woodrow Wilson delivered his first inaugural address. The day “dawned cloudy,” Irwin Hoover recalled, “but the weather cleared and by mid-morning it was warm and comfortable.”
The...
This’ll warm you right up
On the frigid morning of Tuesday, January 16 at 9 a.m. while the temperature was in the single digits and the windchill was subzero, a local purveyor truck downed my Mom’s power line pulling...
Blowin’ in the wind
Scout Clean Energy’s –Nimbus LLC facility proposed for Carroll County has advertised, as I have read online, that at “peak” the project will produce 180MW of electricity, enough to supply 30,000 households.
How? For what...
Thoughts on the proposed wind farm
Members of the Carroll County, Arkansas, Quorum Court
Re: Proposed Ordinances/January 16, 2024, QC Meeting
Dear Members:
We have been provided copies of two proposed ordinances to be considered by the Carroll County Quorum Court at its...
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Joseph Warren’s Last Stand
He could hear the cannons roar in Boston as he lay in bed, frozen by a headache. He hadn’t slept in days. His body wanted to rest.
But Joseph Warren wouldn’t lay...