Recently I received some thought provoking information from a group called the Fully Informed Jury Association or FIJA. According to their literature, "FIJA is a national jury-education organization which both educates juries and promotes laws to require that judges resume telling trial jurors 'the whole truth' about their rights, or at least to allow lawyers...
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Conversion of a Pacifist
Four years ago, I came to Vermont a fire breathing, "left" out, revolutionary pacifist and anarchist. (Sounds more like a witches brew than a person.) Today I am a committed Christian, american patriot and staunch second amendment supporter. Why the change, you might ask. Simple, I got hit with the truth and decided to embrace...
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The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America."
Many people are familiar...
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Portrait of a Patriot: George Washinton
Recently, I had the good pleasure of reading a biography of George Washington, by the historian James Thomas Flexner. It was aptly entitled "Washington The Indispensable Man." Before reading it, George Washington had been just a distant historical figure whose portrait, in my mind, was a mosaic composed of equal parts myth, misguided hearsay, and...
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