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Mark Baisley (May 20, 2013)
As Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy emerged from the IRS hearings in Congress on Friday, he was overheard to say, "I fear all we have done is to... more
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Mark Baisley (May 12, 2013)
Most members of the White House press corps have been more comfortable talking to their children about sex than reporting to the American public on the topic of... more
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Mark Baisley (May 06, 2013)
Most theories on political tension include expressions of degrees on a scale. Terms like left wing and right wing can prove useful for categorizing the positions... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 28, 2013)
Among the many thoughtful details that the founders bequeathed to the rest of us is the purposeful naming of our nation; The United States of America. A single... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 21, 2013)
Amendments Three through Eight in the United States Constitution address a variety of legal matters that seek to protect citizens in their commonplace interactions with... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 14, 2013)
The Second of our Bill of Rights reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,... more
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Mark Baisley (Apr 07, 2013)
The First of our Bill of Rights reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging... more
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Mark Baisley (Mar 31, 2013)
The First Amendment to the Constitution was reserved for the position of highest priority of human rights in the minds of the British rebels who had founded the United... more
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Mark Baisley (Mar 25, 2013)
This article is the first in a series on the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. My purpose in posting this exposé is to do my part in calling... more
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Mark Baisley (Mar 17, 2013)
Before elected officials assume their honored position of representing the people, they are required to swear an oath, and pen their signature to the written... more
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Mark Baisley (Mar 10, 2013)
Two top grossing features debuted in Washington, D.C. this week. While the biggest box office was the Frank Capra headliner starring Rand Paul as Jimmy Stewart, the... more
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Mark Baisley (Mar 04, 2013)
Before Thomas Jefferson took office as the third President of the United States, he spent five years as America’s Minister (ambassador) to France. ... more
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Mark Baisley (Feb 25, 2013)
Founding father Alexander Hamilton was highly skeptical of adding a bill of rights to the United States Constitution. This signer of the Constitution went... more
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Mark Baisley (Feb 17, 2013)
There is a natural order of customs: A value influences a practice that becomes a tradition. Once separated by time from the value, the tradition is questioned and... more
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Mark Baisley (Feb 11, 2013)
On the first day of June in 2009, Air France Flight 447 took off from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil bound for Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. The routine flight... more
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Mark Baisley (Feb 03, 2013)
Three newsworthy statements were reported over the past week that present a disturbing pattern for me. President Obama’s ambitions for fundamentally transforming the... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 27, 2013)
The next two years are going to be rough. The Democrats have been given a two year window to rush every utopian ideal through its army of despotic bureaucrats. ... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 20, 2013)
This week, we celebrate what would have been the 84th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This April will mark the 45th anniversary of his untimely death. It is... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 14, 2013)
The very quotable British novelist Samuel Butler observed that, “Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” Reports coming from Washington seem to show... more
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Mark Baisley (Jan 07, 2013)
Suffering the consequences of hypocrisy is usually reserved for public figures on the political right. The mere rumors of infidelity dissolved Herman Cain’s... more