Our Motto: Nos Sumus Custodes
Nos Sumus Custodes is the motto of The Vino & Veritas Society. It is Latin for “We are the guardians.” In its simplest meaning, we…
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Privileged Political Class | Opinion
Government debt in the United States—municipal, county, state and federal combined—has swelled to a whopping $30 trillion. If you’re reading this on a smartphone, you…
THANKFUL FOR LESSONS LEARNED BY THE FAILURES OF OTHERS
Each Thanksgiving holiday is a reminder of that famous first thanksgiving feast, in the Fall of 1621, in Plymouth, most about which we know comes…
SPEAKING TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: LINCOLN’S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Lincoln’s speech was part of a ceremony dedicating a cemetery created to bury the many dead following the horrific Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863).…
Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump | Opinion
As a citizen, a researcher and a teacher, I teach others one of the most important ideas ever discovered by the human mind: the natural…
Progressivism: Just Say No
In July, Bernie Sanders said Joe Biden will be “the most progressive president since FDR.” Few people noticed. Conservatives get riled when they hear “socialism.”…
We Need Supreme Court Justices with Chutzpah
The current attention on Supreme Court nominees and justices—between Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing and some Democrats’ threatening an FDR-style court-packing plan—raises an important question:…
Greatest Anti-Slavery Movement in History: The American Founding
More than any in living memory, this Independence Day, it’s vitally important that we reflect upon that greatest of all anti-slavery documents, the Declaration of…
Militarizing the Swamp
Modern liberalism in the United States—meaning the liberalism of Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama, the liberalism of the Progressive Movement, the New…
Thankful for Learning the Lessons of Failure
We Americans, today, owe much to the failures of the first Pilgrim (and later Puritan) colonists and the willingness of later generations to learn from…