Equality All men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson, and the other fifty five members of the Continental Congress that signed the Declaration of Independence agreed that this is a self-evident truth. In fact, it is the first of several self-evident...

“The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.” — James Wilson, Of the Study of Law in the United States, 1790 “[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to...

For reason’s I’m not quite ready to disclose to the general public yet (nothing bad though), I may not be home this Thanksgiving. Since that’s a distinct possibility, my wife decided that yesterday would be a good day to celebrate. We had the...

“Weird Al” Yankovic has a fun song named “Virus Alert”. In the song he describes a particularly noxious computer virus that can do all sorts of terrible things both inside cyberspace and outside. This improbably powerful  virus is described in...

Before you continue – a warning. This is a VERY long post. Many of you will be tempted to ignore it because of the length. That’s fine. If you stick with it, I think it will be worth your time, but that’s just my opinion. If you actually read it,...