Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Blessed 2014!

“May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.” –George Washington (1790) America’s first Christmas in 1776...

V. Government Myths and Facts

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”    — James Madison (speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 16 June 1788)...