In view of the multiple stories about wild hogs rampaging the land and the recent woman killed in Texas by a sounder of wild boars, I think, my classic article from 2014 — on wild hogs (and its observations on the subject)— needs to be re-published. Hogs Gone Wild (II) in a Nation of Elois! […]
A Nation of Elois? by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
In his September 12 column, former mayor C. Jack Ellis remarks, “One might say Ferguson [MO] is a microcosm of Macon [GA] pre-2014, approximately 65 percent of the population is black with a poverty rate of approximately 25 percent. The unemployment rate of young black men hovers around 20 percent. And far too many of
Let’s not make any more excuses! Read More »
From 1876 onward, after the North recovered its fortunes and the South was unburdened by the end of Reconstruction, the nation was ruled by laissez-faire capitalism, and freedom flourished for most (not all) of the nations’ citizens. The rapid pace of the Industrial Revolution brought about an exemplary standard of living but also new problems
A Brief History of Socialism in America Read More »
In Part I of this essay, we discussed the terms Freedom and Equality in accordance with Natural Rights theory and Constitutional governance, and then we summarized the ten planks of Karl Marx’s 1948 Communist Manifesto. We showed how our Constitutional Republic has been eroded toward a Social[ist] Democracy by the infiltration of those Marxist planks
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