The Sacrifice for Liberty, The Threat of Tyranny

~ “LETTERS FROM AMERICA” - by The Metaphysical Peregrine ~
Today, July 4th, we celebrate the birth of our nation, now 234 years old. We face the same issue now, as we did then. Do we want to live under tyranny or with liberty? We now have in power in this country people that believe in tyranny, and have the power to enforce it, and are. At the founding of our county, many sacrificed their wealth,

Obama's war on the traditional family

I know I am contradicting myself here—only two posts ago I was talking about “light blogging” and “vacation time” … But this Washington Times editorial is a must read :

President Obama has wasted little time in using his executive branch power to give the country a leftward shove. In just the past few weeks, the administration has ramped up programs intended to reshape conceptions of the family.

Expats in Florence

Perhaps not everyone knows that for a long time Florence has been, and remains, home to many expats: those who have longed to live there, those who have found love and moved there, and those who have gone to Florence and felt immediately at home there. “Many people,” says Melinda Gallo, a writer and blogger who has been living in Florence for seven years, “arrive here at a point in their lives