In January 2005 I recklessly launched a new blog, Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout here at LiveJournal. Probably not the best choice in the world, but I didn’t know better. I have kept it up ever since. There have been some lean months here or there, but I have been amazingly faithful. Content has evolved. At first I thought I might become ( Read more... )

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Revered Founder John Adams severely tarnished his historical reputation with the enactment of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

It may not have been entirely co-incidental that the United States Congress chose July 14, 1798 to pass the Sedition Act, one of a bundle of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts.  It was, after all, also the ( Read more... )

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Some of the colorful decoration from the 2009 PFLAG  entry in the Crystal Lake Independence Day Parade

I’ve been marching in the Crystal Lake Independence Day Parade almost every year for at least twenty years-usually with the McHenry County Democrats or the old McHenry County Peace Group.    This summer, an off election year, the Democrats are ( Read more... )