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I am currently in process of reading “The 5,000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen and regret that I didn’t read this book many years ago. There is nothing in this book that I wasn’t exposed to during my formal education. However, in retrospect, it takes a certain level of maturity and experience to fully grasp what our nation’s founders gave us in the founding documents. I confess that, had I read this book twenty or thirty years ago, I would have probably been a better man, husband, father and… Continue

Comprised of seven articles and twenty-seven amendments, accumulated over approximately 200 years, the United States Constitution is not that daunting a document. Article 1 which establishes the first of the three branches of the government, the Legislature is a mere six pages in length in an average sized book. Consisting of nine Sections, it outlines in those six pages the way that the bicameral or two-part body named The Congress is to operate and delineates its powers. In its entirety, the… Continue

Southern Poverty Law Center

Noble Cause or Blight on America?



Anyone who has ever looked at the angular stainless steel exterior of the headquarters building of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in downtown Montgomery, Alabama has no doubt asked what such a monstrosity is doing in the midst of the neo-classical, Greek revival public buildings and restored Victorian homes now serving as offices for a myriad of associations clustered around the state capitol. Perhaps it is… Continue