Hard cases make bad law is an adage or legal maxim. Its meaning is that an extreme violation of the law often generates extreme responses from judges and legislators because of the emotion the case arouses. General laws should not be written to specifically address an extreme, very uncommon situation. To do so limits the rights of everyone in an attempt to prevent the acts of a very small number of criminals.

Several mainstream media outlets are reporting that Congressional Democrats are making explicit threats. Unless Republicans cave-in to their demands to increase taxes on higher income families and small businesses, the Democrats will block all moves to address what is called the “fiscal cliff” and plunge America into a harsh double-dip recession. The hard leftists in Congress are playing a clever game. The GOP should call their bluff.

It is obvious to me that liberals are entirely different than conservatives, but why is that? Like so many things these days I find myself thinking back to experiences that I had in the past to come up with answers for today’s questions. When I reflect back on my training in sales, it taught me that people generally have a dominant personality style or trait and they are secondary in another trait. As a result, when a person is dominant in a style such as analytical, they are usually quite weak in the expressive style and vice versa.

At what point did being right and normal become “controversial”?  Oh, we know the cultural tectonic shift from traditional moral values to chaotic debauchery began At what point did being right and normal become “controversial”? Since our culture has experienced a tectonic shift from traditional moral values to chaotic debauchery, we get a media storm of “controversy” when a prominent businessman makes a commonplace statement about his belief in traditional family values and biblical truth. I am speaking about Dan Cathy, President of Chick-fil-A, and his recent statements to the Biblical Recorder News and to a radio talk show.

On JULY 26, 1775, Benjamin Franklin became the first U.S. Postmaster General, a position he held prior to the Revolution under the British Crown. Franklin’s public career began when organized Pennsylvania’s first volunteer militia during threaten Spanish and French attacks, and proposed a General Fast, which was approved by the Colony’s Council and printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin published the sermons of Evangelist George Whitefield, which helped spread The Great Awakening Revival. He set up the lighting of city streets and coined the electrical terms “positive” and “negative.”