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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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).…
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…
#ABOLISHLICENSES Challenge for State Legislators
Many candidates for state legislatures and governorships across the United States talk about scaling back the size, scope, and power of government. Once in office, however,…