What Have We Wrought?
Monica Grand Pre
2004-04-06 00:00
It's a failed experiment, this thing called democracy.
As so chillingly foretold by a multitude of Native American Indian spokesmen in the days of westward expansion and nation building by our unwelcome forefather immigrants, conquest by force would never result in fairness or justice, not for the conquered and most assuredly not for the conquerors.
Americans sometimes complain bitterly that...
In Search of Competency
Monica Grand Pre
2003-10-14 16:00
The Bouvier's Law Dictionary of the mid 1800's defines the word license to mean 'a right given by some competent authority to do an act, which without such authority would be illegal.' I wonder how Bouvier defined competent.
Alternative Currency
Monica Grand Pre
2003-10-08 16:00
Across America an economic crisis is building like a tsunami after the eruption of a Richter 8 earthquake on the ocean floor. In response to this onrushing disaster, certain insightful people have chosen not to be crushed by the tides, but have sought higher ground with a very old solution: debt free local scrip.
The Butchers, The Bakers and Candlestick Makers
Monica Grand Pre
2003-10-07 16:00
I don't know how many of the 360 odd million people in the United States are currently babies, but it seems that everyone, including the diapered, have opinions about everything and sometimes it seems that few of those opinions ever agree with anyone else's.
Reprint Rights
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