TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The cold, hard facts. The United States of America was formally created between 1787 and 1789. After years of rule by a tyrannical king, our Founding Fathers left the land of their birth and came to the New Land, declared their independence from King George III, won the Revolutionary War, and created a nation governed by a sacred document which would become the Law of the Land during the Constitutional Convention. Contained in the Constitution of the United States of America are a number of promises and guarantees, the most important of which are rights and freedoms for all individuals which do not infringe on the rights of the majority. America would become a nation controlled by the people who would elect representatives to serve their needs and wishes in the nation’s capital, regardless of their personal opinions. The Bill of Rights contains those initial rights, guarantees, and freedoms. It is clear by their actions during the Constitutional Convention and t...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In just 12 days our government will celebrate “Presidents Day.” I repeat my claim that this is the worst conceived holiday in our nation’s history. Our nation has been led by 45 men, one of them twice, and less than one quarter of them are worthy of our praise. Long ago, when I was young, we celebrated two great presidents in the month of February. On the 12 th , our nation honored the birthday of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. On the 22 nd we celebrated the birthday of the man who led us to victory in the Revolutionary War, and became our first President, George Washington. However, another moronic decision changed this situation and we are forced to pay tribute to some of the worst white men in our country. That said, I offer you the worst of the worst, the bottom five men who were chosen to serve our nation’s people and failed miserably. In fifth place is our 28 th President, Woodrow Wilson. I choose him as our fifth worst president f...