Lamentably, many persons dwell in states of fundamental denial of the existence of Truth, of Objective Reality, consequently do they reside in states of full and free flight from Reality.

The confrontation of Truth, the acknowledgement of Reality, requires courage.

Unfailingly, it is character that makes the defining difference.

Stalin's psychopolitical warfare waging ideological heirs have well understood the salience of his observation:

" America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."

Seemingly endless decades of relentless, heinous, subversion has had its unholy effects on our once noble Republic.

The pursuit of the imposition of mindless uniformity is not the objective of Christianity, rightly understood and practiced. In actuality, the solemn recognition of the singularity of the dignity of the humanity and individuality of the individual is an inviolable tenet of Christianity. Objectively, it is in those societies in which the wholesome influence of Reform Christianity has been most profound that the centrality of the dignity of the humanity of each individual has been most fervently affirmed, in law and practce.

For those who are unaware and uninspired, a diabolically comfortable road to serfdom.

It is in the etymology of the word education that the essence of the true character of education is revealed.

Education is derived from the Latin educare, the actual definition of which is: to lead out, to educe.

Most sublimely, education is constituted not of the inculcation of philosophies of education and of knowledge but of the conscientious cultivation, in actuality the eduction, of each individual's native interests and constitutional, Creator imparted, faculty for learning.

Eloquent, elegant and utterly irreproachable.

The only truly qualified teachers are they for whom the pursuit is a calling.

In America, education was once universally understood to be a ministerial endeavor, a solemn responsibility characteristically borne by parents and clergymen.

Their noble efforts yielded a population of literate, sensible, Sovereign Individuals whose Virtue was exemplified and personified by this nation's illustrious Founders.

Everything has its genesis at home.

As the Puritan divine Thomas Manton expressed it:

" The home is the seminary of the Church and of the State."

Every parent who possesses earnest love for his or her child necessarily understands that a parent's signal responsibility is to so rear a child as to equip him or her to become a Sovereign Individual.

State employed indoctrinators are the most contemptible of surrogates for a child's devoted parents.

As the maestro Mr. Jefferson himself expressed it:

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

The utterances of a man of towering character and intelligence.

So much for the Theory of Evolution.

From a generation of colossi to a generation of homunculi(with rare exceptions) in 240 years.

Virtue makes the defining difference.

A hopeful, if less than entirely reality
grounded observation, regrettably, the actualities of our temporal existences being as they are.

The vitality of the Constitution, the Life Force of Liberty, is the Virtue of the People.

In the absence of Virtue, Liberty, in its most sublime rendering, cannot exist.

Liberty, unconstrained by Virtue, devolves apace to become licentiousness.

False hope is neither a substantial breakfast nor a nourishing supper.

Hope, rightly vested, is Life itself.

Mike:

As viscerally averse to this nation as the current Usurper-Pretender/Anti President/Commandante-in-Chief has been carefully conditioned to be, there exists no objective evidence to reveal that it has ever been his hope to do anything other than invest himself wholly in his endeavoring to be the instrument of the completion of the process of the desolation-dissolution of our once glorious Republic.

His Ideal is that of an America rendered a fetid, flyblown, utterly ungovernable other than by totalitarian means, Third World backwater.

Lamentably, most individuals are carefully conditioned to be entirely less than Sovereign Individuals by individuals who themselves are entirely less than Sovereign.

As covetous of control and avaricious as they deny that they are, the latter day Pharisees of the Left are hardly averse to "capitalism", particularly as it is in its mercantilist and hideous hybrid National Socialist renderings.

Isms aside, the frailty remains one of fallen human character, particularly as it expresses itself in the pride and fear animated will to monomaniacally accrue power.

In this instance, Mr. Hamilton's powers of observation and prescience failed him and us.

Lamentably, the states have not proven to be vigilant in their defense of their sovereignty, having succumbed to the siren song blandishments and intimidation of the
hideosity that the Federal Leviathan has become.

Ultimately, the malady remains rooted in the susceptibility of the Sovereign Individual to cede his autonomy to an ever ravening State.

To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy:

" There is no other myth that is more nearly persistent than is the myth that where there is "public service" there is virtue."

When and where the only operative principle is pragmatism, particularly the primacy of the bottom line objective of the acquisition of wealth by means of the accruing of power or its inverse, no provision for correction can exist.

The functional malady remains one of an impoverishment of Virtue.

Civilization begins with a single individual.

Objectively, among societies, the most consistently successful ones are those in which the singularity of the dignity of the individuality of the individual is acknowledged and honored.

Mr. Havel toiled tirelessly in the vineyard of Freedom and suffered egregiously for his doing so.

Regrettably, he is no longer with us.

There exists in this day, lamentably, an immense population of persons(many of whom are morbidly attracted to government "service")who are nurturing the fundamentally illusive notion that freedom of expression is a right such as
ought to be, entirely exclusively, theirs to exercise.

It is not that they do not believe in the right of freedom of expression, it is that they believe that it is only they who have a right to freely express themselves.

The ability to think freely was ordained to be a native faculty of Man and ought to be, accordingly, regarded as being a Sovereign Right of his and something the actuality of which is wholly discrete from external constraint.

An individual cannot predicate his or her ability to think freely upon the prospective consequences of his or her doing so.

Anyone who is constrained to do so is, by definition, not free.

The sine qua non of honorable journalistic practice is intellectual honesty, which is a fruit of moral integrity and courage.

The ruck of this nation's current class of classless " journalists" are too bound by ideology, particularly by leftist pragmatism and a morbid dearth of moral fortitude, to be at liberty to express themselves freely.

In the absence of Integrity, in the absence of Moral Authority, ultimately, in the absence of Virtue, without which Probity cannot be present, an authentically free press cannot exist.