When it gets like this, all I can do is sit here at my computer and write, so maybe I can get some of the work for next week done ahead of time. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did, and it never will. About Freedom is brought to you by SierraTimes. Gun control advocates say that the Second Amendment is an anachronism intended only to protect a state's right to maintain a militia, and that therefore individuals cannot claim its protection as a personal right. An armed citizenry was recognized as being advantageous to a free State. In an age when the sense of community is strained and in many cases absent, the idea of citizens viewing themselves as a part of the people may seem out of place.