Look Up

You never know what you may see circling above you.  This floated north to south in circles over the center of the city. 

Nullification is the key not Secession

"Nullification.
Simply defined, nullification is any act, or set of actions, that results in a particular law being declared unconstitutional and rendered null, void or even just unenforceable within the borders of a state."

http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/11/27/the-moderate-middle-road/

Mother Natures Mirror

Thin Ice

A Lot of Years

Deadly Beauty

"Rations of Slavery"

"It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle."

P. J. O'Rourke, in Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut‎ (1996), p. 227

Trestle

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. 

John Quincy Adams

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. 

Carter Glass

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. 

Milton Friedman

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. 

Winston Churchill