Liberalism is a cancer, Americanism is the answer! Arm yourself with knowledge and fight back!
Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
-- Will Durant
Every citizen should read and understand The US Constitution. On-Line resources make it easy
This brilliant document was an example of pure, crystal clarity until, alas, the lawyers and activist jurists got ahold of it. It is now accreted with so much case law and wild twists and turns that many plainly-written articles have been shorn of their original intent.
What US Law Says about the US Constitution
Two web sites provide excellent, authoritative guidance, with searchable text and links to the different articles and amendments. The most valuable feature is the rich commentary on case law that includes scholarly writings on the meaning and interpretations of each section.
You may not agree with where our judges have taken us, but these sites explain how it happened, citing specific court cases.
Findlaw - US Constitution
Cornell Law School - US Constitution
Want more background? Read The Federalist Papers!
I know, they are hard to read for the average layman. I have read various different parts, and it's not easy.
Here's a solution. Go to
Founding Fathers.info and click the Federalist Papers link. There you will find a searchable on-line version with a handy index that annotates each paper so you know what it is about.
Founding Fathers - Federalist Papers
It's a left-right battle, and information is the ammo!
If you want to arm yourself up for liberal-conservative battle, there are literally hundreds of books you could read. If you're like me, you just don't have that kind of time.
Herewith I humbly commend to you four books that will get you up to speed in the minimum amount of time while giving you the maximum amount of essential history and critical information.
Dr. Sowell is a brilliant conservative scholar and thinker. I look forward to each new column from him as I would words of wisdom from a wise uncle.
He has also written many well-researched, scholarly
books. Most are for the more advanced student, but don't be discouraged! He is an excellent teacher who explains advanced concepts in an understandable way. His books are well worth the effort. If you're still scared of big books, take his wisdom in smaller bites by reading
his columns.
Links:
Among the many excellent books Dr. Sowell has written,
Vision of the Anointed and
The Quest For Cosmic Justice explain how liberal intellectual pointy-heads have gotten us to the social and fiscal mess we now find ourselves in. Read these books and you will never again be sucked in by politicians promising "solutions."
I am neither a literary critic nor a humanities professor, so the academic would say I am completely unqualified to recommend books or comment on them. I say, balderdash! I love to read and I love to share a valuable discovery. I've been around the world and I've seen what works and what doesn't.
Reading these books will help you become a well-rounded thinker able to discuss many diverse topics. They will also provide you a basis of knowledge so you can evaluate the torrent of daily information presented to you and form your own judgments and opinions.
-- Will Durant
"It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely; this is the trial heat which innovations must survive before being allowed to enter the human race."
-- Will Durant
"Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history."
-- Will Durant
Insincerity is the lubricant of social intercourse
-- Fausto Natal, Lt Col US Army
Society is a thin veneer
Man is the most dangerous of all animals
It is seems to good to be true, it probably is
There is no free lunch
Swim at your own risk
"The worst psychological state is a superiority complex coupled with an inferior status."
--Jagdish Bhagwati, economist
If you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.
-- Marcus Luttrell, Navy Seal, from Lone Survivor, p. 313
In social life, the more fundamental a truth is, the more likely is is to have been discovered long ago--and to have been repeated in a thousand ways to the point of utter boredom. In this context, to make excitement and novelty the touchstones of an idea is to run grave risks of abandoning the truth for ideological trinkets.
-- Thomas Sowell (Quest for Cosmic Justice, 1999. Almost 10 years before "Hope and Change!")
Could slavery have been ended by the civil war if television cameras had shown daily scenes of the horrors of Sherman's march through Georgia or the appalling sufferings of civilians in besieged Vicksburg?
-- Thomas Sowell
