Serving up reason from the North and logic from the South
Today in Memorial Day 2023. Most have the day off and for many, it marks the unofficial start of summer. However, this holiday, which affords so many a 3-day weekend, is not a happy one. Today's holiday is one of the most somber ones we recognize every year on the last Monday of May. As… Continue reading Memorial Day 2023 and remembering why we have this solemn holiday
In this bonus episode of my show, called Conversations, I had the chance to meet and talk to the ladies who run the Facebook page, Straight to the Point. Robyn Drew and Leslie Cole started their public page toward the end of the Obama presidency. They both attest to not being involved with getting into… Continue reading Conversations with Straight to the Point
Essays of Eric Wojciechowski over the first ten years of the FreedomCocaktail blog. Available in print for the first time at Amazon! From the Forward of the book: FORWARD In the beginning, there was a friendship that found itself in the hound-halls of Malow Junior High in southeast, Michigan. I can’t quite remember the first… Continue reading BOOK RELEASE: Libertarian Dialogues: Ten Years at FreedomCocktail
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,100 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to… Continue reading 2013 in review
I like to imagine that a lot of people perform the cliché end-of-year introspection ritual. I like to imagine that people who take the time, genuinely enjoy the review of the good moments, and intend to do something to keep from repeating the not so good moments. I'll get around to my own, but I've spent… Continue reading Selling The News
To delve into this topic, we first need to understand and agree upon the definition of "rights" as used and implemented by the Founding Fathers and the framers of our Constitution. The first stop is the philosopher, John Locke, who put forth the theory of natural rights, which states everyone is born with an equality of certain rights,… Continue reading Healthcare is not a right
As a member of the Libertarian Party, I address this article to not only said Party but to anyone else feeling our growing pains. It's been several decades that the LP has been in existence but despite the wonderful efforts of many involved, the Party continues to get very little attention, and votes. I think… Continue reading Three Inhibitors to Recognize in Achieving Liberty
Another endeavor of late has been the creation of a politically focused blog site called, Freedom Cocktail. It is currently a venture with a friend of mine from Michigan. Eric and I met in the 8th grade and have not lost touch since. He still lives in Michigan; I live in Georgia. Our lives have… Continue reading Freedom Cocktail — serving up reason from the North and logic from the South
It is argued that the United States Constitution is open to interpretation, thus implying that the words on the paper are not an end in themselves. This suggests that the Constitution is flexible and not concrete and indirectly suggests that it needs supporting documentation in order to explain itself. That supporting documentation would be made… Continue reading Interpreting the United Stated Constitution
We don't need another political blog! Yep, I heard ya yell it when you clicked the button and fell upon us. But I disagree. We DO need another political blog. We need one in favor of the American Republic as envisioned by Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and all those other old dead guys. There are… Continue reading Federalist Resurrection
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