Contrasting Ideals and Ends in the American and French Revolutions by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D. is a comprehensive analysis and comparison of the American and French Revolutions—two revolutions that changed the world. Both revolutions were influenced by the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason. However, each revolution took very divergent paths with diametrically opposite outcomes. […]
On April 10, 2019, New Zealand MPs voted almost unanimously to pass draconian gun control laws in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shooting. As a result, “military-style semiautomatic firearms” are now banned. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardem stated she would be signing the legislation into law, claiming “these weapons were designed to kill.”
Draconian Gun Laws and Knee-Jerk Democracy in New Zealand by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
I do not mind disagreeing with a fellow conservative when he happens to be local columnist Erick Erickson. Erickson has become the self-appointed arbiter of the limits of “respectable” conservatism. Anyone transcending beyond those limits is to be ostracized, as has happened with his attacks on Donald Trump. But Trump happens to be the man
Politics is politics, and to paraphrase the remark misattributed to Bismarck, “politics are like making sausages, not a pretty sight.” Trump, bombastic and offensive to some, is using populism and taking advantage of the disaffection and anger of American voters to get elected president. He did not become a successful businessman from idiocy and pomposity,
Working people, politics and Trump — Answer to a reader Read More »
John Quincy Adams (2012) by Harlow Giles Unger is a well written and well-researched book that brings to light the sixth president of the United States, and the only son of a Founding Father to become president — John Quincy Adams. The Adams family was not only to give birth to several American statesmen, but
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom established a Constitutional Republic with a federal system in which each and every state, large and small, has a major stake in the election of the chief executives, the President and Vice President, of the United States of America. This federal system incorporated an enduring system of checks and
The Electoral College and the U.S. Presidential Elections Revisited Read More »
