Year: 2022

299 – Advanced Managing of the American People

Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution is the Necessary and Proper Clause. “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.” Does that mean Congress can pass any law which they think is necessary? Enter the new law, H.R.3684 – Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In Section 24220, Congress “finds” it necessary to require new cars to include drunk and impaired driving technology. The question we should all have asked was, is that a power vested in the government of the United States?

298 – Defending Public Liberty

There are certain idea that we find detestable. Concepts we find repulsive. Even some actions that we cannot abide. But do we have the right to tell other people that they must live by what we find acceptable? How many dystopian novels are based in the idea that only approved thought is allowed in society? Benjamin Franklin, writing as Silence Dogood wrote:

“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

What will you do to protect public liberty? What will you allow, not because you approve, but because you recognize the right of others to live differently than you?

Remembering 2021

Like so many of it’s predecessors, 2021 reminds me of the opening to the Charles Dickens book A Tale of Two Cities… “