How many teachers tell their students “The Constitution exists to protect the people from government”? How many students absorb the lesson – how many ever even hear it – that the American system is really based on limiting the leviathan, on binding it, shackling it, stunting its growth, for the public good?
We do this figuratively, in our state and federal constitutions. We do it literally, in the way that we surround Washington DC with a Beltway, not unlike a moat or no-man’s-land, to keep people out and to keep its own denizens in. But do our children’s schoolteachers share this information with them? Do the teachers understand it themselves?
They sing the praise of “democracy,” cheering our right to select our representatives, our right to run for office ourselves, our right to talk to our assemblymen and have rallies and demonstrations, our right to lobby for more funding or for some new law.
But we don’t teach our children that the government was meant to be slow moving – that the system of checks and balances was intended to slow down legislation, not speed things up. We don’t grow up knowing that the government that governs best, governs least. We don’t read our children the Declaration of Independence, clause by clause, to ensure they understand what tyranny is.
Chicago beef is not meant to be a Philly sandwich from the Midwest.
And we are not meant to live under a class of people that think they are better than us, much like the Indian caste system, just because they "think right".
Click and read the whole article. You'll learn something.
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Recently I tried some ‘Nikita vodka’ from Ukraine
Later I gave a blind shot to a friend who is not a vodka fan
He said ‘not sure wtf this is, But it is really good’
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The story of Nikita Corn Vodka starts during the Cold War Era when the then Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev, impressed by the corn agriculture in the U.S., sought to plant corn throughout all the regions of the country-even in Siberia.
The idea proved to be mostly a disaster, but not for Ukraine. Corn is considered the “GOLD” of Ukraine.
Non GMO Corn is one of the main agricultural crops in Ukraine.
The conditions are ideal cultivation, including fertile chernozem (soil rich in minerals and high moisture retention capacity).
Corn is the second best-selling grain crop in the world (after wheat). Today Ukraine (now an independent country) is one of the three global leaders in the exportation of corn and one of the largest producers of non-GMO corn
Had my first italian beef sandwich last month & that was what drew me to this post.
Fortunately for me I stuck with the article long enough to get down to the real meat of the piece.
The quotes & discussions re: mr di leo on the lost decades of public education & understanding of how our government was intended to work were much more appetizing than the discussion of peppers & cheese.
Great article, and the comments, too!
DiLeo has written a lot of good articles over the years, this is one of his best.
He is brilliant in how he points out the parallels in the reporter’s writing, and the deficiencies in today’s voters.
A great analysis of how our system of government is designed to work, and a great analysis of what makes a good Italian Beef sandwich-he got my mouth watering for sure!
Pepperoncini or hot giardinara for me!😛😛