The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Shattered Legacy of the Founding Fathers Consent, independence, and fireworks. Donald Jeffries We’re one year away from the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It remains one of the most impactful and revolutionary documents ever written. While our horrific leaders still pay infrequent lip service to it, they obviously don’t remotely believe in the sentiments expressed by Thomas Jefferson. The delineation of God-given rights, as opposed to any granted by a government, was a literary nuclear bomb. This resonated with the American colonists, who almost all believed strongly in God. Now, of course, since probably half of present day Americans at least doubt the existence of God, it becomes a much harder proposition to sell. God-given rights mean nothing to those who don’t believe in God. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness would eventually translate into the Bill of Rights, which made the Constitution palatable to anti-statists like Jeffe...

  Give me Liberty or Give me America 2.0 Some truths are self-evident DONALD JEFFRIES Artwork by Heidi Wurst As I’ve noted before, I was fascinated by history as a very young boy. And no part of history caught my attention like the founding of this nation. The American Revolution, the War for Independence- call it what you will. The Boston Tea Party. The Minutemen. Paul Revere’s midnight ride. The shot heard around the world. I know that our Founders weren’t perfect. Thomas Paine, the brilliant writer who produced  Common Sense,  the pamphlet that helped ignite patriotic fervor in the colonies, wound up hating George Washington, who did indeed seem to have forgotten his invaluable contributions to the movement for independence. Shockingly and inexplicably, the location of most of Paine’s remains are unknown, as I detailed in  Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963.  Washington’s actions regarding the Whiskey Rebellion besmirch his reputation. He al...