http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress My (rather reasonable, I think) Opinion Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:07:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.” - James Madison When George Mason and 56 other delegates to the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in May 1787, ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2012/01/06/betraying-the-constitution/ “Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes The Iraq war isn't over. For tens of thousands of soldiers returning from the battlefield, it never will be. Too many of these American heroes will turn to alcohol or drugs in an effort to assuage their ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2011/12/22/the-war%e2%80%99s-not-over/ “A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.” - Socrates This week’s unfolding events, precipitated by the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, have left me with an empty feeling ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2011/11/11/how-should-we-apply-morality/ “Whisper to them as they slip into sleep, ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ ” - William Rivers Pitt I didn't spend much time yesterday, or the day before that, or the day before that with the news ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2011/09/12/what-we-have-become/ “It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” - Edmund Burke Author’s Note: The following is excerpted from the draft of the book on Just War Theory which I am presently engaged in writing. When we look at ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2011/08/10/the-value-of-the-moral-high-ground/