Craig Dawkins .....Liberty Thoughts

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. is Necessary Reading for Liberty Lovers All who value liberty should take some time to read "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. He wrote this letter while imprisoned in a jail cell for protesting peacefully for freedom and equality under the law. This should be required reading for all students in school. It's a majestic piece of writing that will live for eternity. There are people alive today who stood witness to these conditions. Some in protest, and some in silence. While America has taken steps forward in the area of race and equality under the law, more steps are necessary. Here's a reformatted sample from the letter below. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote -  [We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have never yet engaged in a direct-action movement that was "well ti...

Ignoring Trump's Mindless Tweets Makes Sense Danielle Pletka appeared on "Meet the Press" today. According to Wikipedia, she was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, and is the vice-president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). She made some great points today that were kind of squashed by other media members at the table. She said that the media should not cover each Trump tweet as if it were American policy, exerting shock and protest over each tweet. The other journalists suggested that would be akin to treating Trump as a petulant child since we've always viewed the president's statements as official government policy. I agree with Ms. Pletka. In fact, what I would suggest the media do is essentially give Trump a ranking system on his tweets and essentially categorize each tweet into policy versus personality sectors. Then once a month, it would be helpful to review all the Trump tweets and lampoon the wor...