Author: KONRAD EBISCH

My personal opinions on how the the world works.

Remember When We Had a Constitution?

The “founding fathers” of the USA wrote us a constitution, a contract to unite the states with rules to make the new nation succeed.  The Constitution and the union it created have been greatly successful in the past in the past for several reasons.  Some factors led to a people intensely loyal to the USA…
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Indian Wars

Our literature, especially that of Hollywood, sometimes paints the Indians as a major obstacle to our settling of the Continent.  A close look at history shows that to a great extent this was not the case.  Our European culture was simply far superior in the ability to make war.  To the south, Francisco Pizarro defeated…
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Ethnic Labels

Perhaps nowhere else is the abuse of language so disgraceful as in the use of ethnic labels. Consider just a few examples of the clear meaning of commonly misused labels. White : A light brownish pinkish color. NOT white. Black : A dark brown color similar to dark chocolate. NOT black. African-American : An American…
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Taxes and Slaves

Each government on earth has a right to rule, called “sovereignty”. Our governments used to assure us that their sovereignty is granted to them by God. In the Bible, read I Samuel chapter 8 to see that God granted to King Saul the right to rule. And the right to tax his subjects, collecting from…
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Racism

In recent years, “Racism” has become a byword in our culture, especially in our political culture, and the word has been used far beyond the boundary where “used” becomes “abused”. As a culture evolves, it will be more successful if it instills pride by teaching that our people are better than others. Throughout history, examples…
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A Look at the Institution of Slavery

Slavery, also called “involuntary servitude”, is a topic that today’s culture finds odious. The institution of slavery has existed for thousands of years. For over a century, slavery has been outlawed all over the world. Yes, it still exists in clandestine cases, with the number of slaves being a tiny percent of the population, in…
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Book

I was not sure if I should do a book or a blog, so I opted to do both. If you want to see the book, go to Amazon and search for “Human Evolution and other Essays” . This is an Amazon Kindle book, and it will contain much that is also on the blog,…
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Why ?

Why this Blog ? Ideas are like children — there are none so wonderful as your own. As I watch the news, observing how our world works, I keep thinking that there are many things that should be said, which are not said. So I decided to publish some of my thoughts. Perhaps something here…
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