SALLY MORRIS: NO SPACE SAFE ENOUGH
I hope you saw my post last Saturday. I featured the life and work of a truly great American, Marva Collins, recognized by two presidents and celebrated by a rock…...
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Thursday, February 06, 2020
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION - PART ONE
When we say we are under attack by Islam, it doesn’t just mean the kind of attack that involves guns or bombs. Quite possibly the most damaging attacks are…...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: HOW SAFE IS OUR SECOND AMENDMENT?
I have a friend who assures me every time we talk and I bring up concerns about anything - from out-of-control immigration to crime to government overstepping its authority -…...
Saturday, February 01, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: BELIEVE! A GIFT TO THE FUTURE - MARVA COLLINS
Today is the first day of February. It is also known in America as “Black History Month”. Usually I am not in favor of categorizing people by their color. However,…...
Friday, January 31, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: I’LL SHOW YOU THE MAN
"Give me a child until the age of seven and I will show you the man." - Aristotle Here is another reason parents should be home schooling their children. Just…...
Thursday, January 30, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: EZRA LEVANT - FREE SPEECH IS COSTLY
Our world is becoming narrower and narrower. Even as we are seeing more and more dissident commentators shut down, deplatformed and hounded out of the public square for holding an…...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: MOVE OVER, MICHELANGELO
Many years ago, in conversation with my sister, she expressed her perplexity that co-workers, fellow students, had stated that they couldn’t imagine knowing someone more than two years older than…...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS COURTESY OF FOREIGN AID
High Crimes and Misdemeanors Courtesy of American Foreign Aid Sally Morris January 23, 2020 Recent developments vis-à-vis the impeachment investigation and process beg the question, why are we giving foreign…...
Monday, January 27, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: TIME FOR TRUTH - WE MUST STOP MUSLIM IMMIGRATION
I confess I don’t know where to begin today. There is a lot going on and much of it is interrelated. First, we need to assert here that there is…...
Saturday, January 25, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: THE PEOPLE’S POET
Today would be the 261st birthday of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns. It seems unlikely that a man who was born into a difficult life as the eldest son…...
Thursday, January 23, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION . . .
The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic…...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: OUR 10TH AMENDMENT AND AN OBSERVATION ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE
Our final installment in our Bill of Rights series is the Tenth Amendment. It is a sort of “grand finale” in that it wraps things up beautifully. It is applicable…...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: OUR NINTH AMENDMENT AND YESTERDAY’S EVENTS IN VIRGINIA
Today, after a brief break, we are back to finish our examination of the Bill of Rights. So far the Amendments have been specific in nature, requiring fair procedures and…...
Monday, January 20, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: A MESSAGE FROM IRAQ - 2017
Today was supposed to be when we checked out our Ninth amendment. It is a very important amendment and deserves our full attention. However, today I want to bring you…...
Saturday, January 18, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: WINTER MERENGUE
One miserable, sub-zero night last year I got to thinking, “why are we here?” No - not in the philosophical sense. Anyone who knows me knows I don’t think…...
Friday, January 17, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - OUR EIGHTH AMENDMENT
Today is a day to look at crime and punishment. We’ll start with an examination of our Eighth Amendment. We usually refer to this as the rejection of “cruel and…...
Thursday, January 16, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: SOME THOUGHTS ON QASSEM SOLEIMANI ET AL; AND A LOOK AT OUR SEVENTH AMENDMENT
Our Seventh Amendment is not as complex or multi-faceted as most of the others we have looked at here. It covers two main issues. Here it is as written: …...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: THE SIXTH AMENDMENT - WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “DUE PROCESS”?
As we continue along our journey through the Bill of Right we come to our Sixth Amendment. This expands with more specificity on our right to “due process” which was…...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: OUR FIFTH AMENDMENT - UNDER ASSAULT
Our Fifth Amendment is usually associated with our right not to “incriminate” ourselves by giving testimony against ourselves. It is more than this, however. Amendment V: No person shall…...
Monday, January 13, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: OUR FOURTH AMENDMENT IS A FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams We should all be aware that…...
Saturday, January 11, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS VISIT THE METIS
The Metis people of Canada and the United States have a distinct and fascinating North American culture. The product of early liaisons between European explorers, fur traders, voyageurs and settlers,…...
Thursday, January 09, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: EVERYONE’S A CRITIC . . . AND OUR THIRD AMENDMENT
In the aftermath of the successful drone strike that took out two major terrorists in Iraq, there are the expected complaints from the left as well as from a more…...
SALLY MORRIS: OUR BILL OF RIGHTS - AMENDMENT II
Yesterday we explored the First Amendment and some of the current issues surrounding it. Today we move on to our Second Amendment, equally contentious right now, and equally vital to…...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: AN INTERESTING CONTRAST - AND A LOOK AT OUR BILL OF RIGHTS
First, a contrast in "light" and "dark": I know, everybody should be talking about the attack on our embassy and the swift and sure retaliation by the President in Baghdad. …...
Monday, January 06, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: THE RIGHT CALL - OR HOW TO MAKE AN OBSCENE TERRORIST CRY
The President’s decision to retaliate against Iran for its attack on our embassy in Iraq has of course been met with howls from the left. The strike accomplished the killing…...
Saturday, January 04, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: LOOKING AHEAD - THE STRANGE GIFT OF NOSTRADAMUS
This is the first Saturday of our new decade. It is always a sort of mystical time of the year, a time when we pause to consider what happened in…...
Friday, January 03, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: ONE SUNDAY IN TEXAS
On a Sunday in November, 2017, shortly after the beginning of the 11:00 service at a small Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a man entered, dressed in black,…...
Thursday, January 02, 2020
SALLY MORRIS: TRUTH IS NOT “HATE”
When religious freedom is distorted into acceptance of Islam as “religion”, we must reassess our definition of "religion" for the purposes of our First Amendment. Our tradition and our…...
Monday, December 30, 2019
SALLY MORRIS: MATT BEVIN’S LAME DUCK ABUSE OF OFFICE HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR TERM LIMITS
There are many strong arguments against the idea of “term limits”, perennially popular with many conservatives. The problem with artificial term limits is that it means lame-duck officials and candidates,…...
Friday, December 27, 2019
SALLY MORRIS: KAJICHAGULIA - KWANZAA, DAY TWO
Today is the second day of “Kwanzaa”. The quotation marks are intentional, for this is neither a cultural, historic nor religious celebration. Rather, it is another attempt by another fraud…...
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