Presidential Portraits: George Washington
Eight years ago, my sister Rachel and I made a cassette tape about George Washington for fun (yes, this is what teenage Read girls did for fun...in the era when I made a portrait of George Washington the desktop background on our computer). We organized a soundtrack...
A Darwin Day Scientific Treasury
Anyone who has followed my writings for awhile knows that I have a thing for men of science. I adored Sir Isaac Newton at an early age, I wrote a screenplay about Chief Chemist Harvey Wiley as a teenage girl (I think it needs a second revision), I've dissected Charles...
A Little Bit Vintage
My lovely Southern Belle Grandmomma gave me this belt from Anthropologie for my birthday this year. On my birthday I wore it while mix-matching a white blouse, black sweater, and pink skirt with my cowgirl-inspired boots. Grandmomma also gave me the garnet necklace...
The Power of Narrative
Our languishing culture is made up of individuals, not a collective mass audience. Most of them are blasé, complacent individuals. To simply confront them with holier-than-thou accusations or rah-rah chants is fruitless. Moral outrage doesn't make sense to them...
2012 Finale
Over New Year's, Matthew Perdie, the Abbotts, Rachel's boyfriend Adamson Easterly, and David Abbott's girlfriend Jessica Urffer visited Fair Hills Farm. The visit was a rousing success, complete with movies, fireworks, s'mores, a game of Catch Phrase, and Matthew's...
“The True Light, which, coming into the world, enlightens every man”
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light...
Is This My Country?
"All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." ~Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776) This past summer I attended the...
A New Conservative Activist Weapon
Finally, an organization for conservatives that actually utilizes our limited-government, individualist philosophy in its own design. Behold my latest project with Matthew Perdie: IndiRes.com @IndiResolve on Twitter To empower individual efforts for the purpose of...
Election Eve (and beyond) Viewing
The hours are ticking down to the moment when Americans decide which candidate to hire as chief executive of the U.S. government for the next four years. Take a few minutes to watch some scenes that will further inform you of the issues behind the big choice in...
The Significance of Reformation Day for the United States
October 31, 1517 was a forerunner to America's Independence Day. The following scholarly excerpts can be found in Amos and Gardiner's Never Before in History: America's Inspired Birth, which enthralled me at the age of 14. "The American Revolution might thus be said...
Strain Out a Gnat and Swallow a Camel: How Reverse Statism Endangers the Republic
If you want to send a message to Washington, you must speak in its language. Washington only comprehends the electorate's desires based upon the margin of victory between the winning candidate and the losing candidate from the opposing major party. If Obama wins,...
Odd Ones Out: Why Third Parties Don’t Fit in the American Political System (Or, “A History of America’s Proudest Losers”)
Even constitutional purist icon Ron Paul has not endorsed a third party candidate this election season. That should tell you a little about the dire ineffectuality of third partyism at this fiscally and morally calamitous moment in America's history. To add insult to...
