When the Middle is Gone

Lender owned

There once was a country known as the United States of America. It was built upon a solid foundation of freedom delineated by a set of rules collectively known as “The Constitution of the United States of America.” It was called this because to “constitute” something is to form it, or make it up — in essence, to create it. Thus, the Constitution of the United States created the United States. Without that document, which describes exactly what the United States is and how it works, there would be no United States of America.

And that’s why, today, there is no United States of America.

In its place is a government stolen from the People. Without legal justification, a growing number of politicians have stolen our nation from us. They have put in its place something which our Founders would have easily recognized as a tyrannical form of government.

And it’s time we got rid of it.

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Pot Smoke & Mirrors

Medical Marijuana

Today’s Fresno Bee will carry a story — I’ve only seen the online version so far, which promises “more” for today in the paper edition — concerning a resurgent commitment from the federal government to crack down on medical marijuana.

It’s important to understand that the government response to medical marijuana is un-American, relatively new, and based on bad science — not to mention bad government.

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