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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Oct 11, 2025, 2:00 AM UTC

Political Column - The Struggle of Politics

Life is a struggle. A struggle wherein we strive to capture value and meaning in what we create, in what we experience, and the perspective that we take on the challenges that we face. Politics is a…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Oct 10, 2025, 6:55 PM UTC

Political Column - Cain, Abel, Fire, and Politics

American society is shaking right now, ready to either erupt or crumble. We are seeing this in the conflicts and failures evident in all of our major institutions. In our non-functional medical indus…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Oct 10, 2025, 6:36 PM UTC

Political Column - The Bedrock of Good Government

It has been a long and tumultuous history to discover what is necessary for the structure of good governance: separation of powers, federalism, checks and balances, due process, elections, enumerated…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Oct 10, 2025, 6:23 PM UTC

Political Column - Between Tyranny and Anarchy

Life and liberty are precious and precarious things. Easy to lose their balance and topple, this way or that. We expect government to protect these things, life and liberty, but quite often it does t…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Oct 10, 2025, 5:56 PM UTC

Political Column - How Power Corrupts

I have spent many hours over the last couple of decades contemplating Lord Acton's observation in a letter to a bishop that, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." I have re…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Oct 10, 2025, 5:43 PM UTC

Political Column - The Right to Garden

Everyone wants to make progress. To actually do that there are important questions to ask, the two most important being "Progress toward what?" and "How?" Studying reformations of the past, how they…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Oct 10, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

Political Column - Procedure and Substance

I have received suggestions from both residents in Dalton Township, and from state level organizations, tending toward having ordinances that are vague and subjective. I can understand the tendency i…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Oct 10, 2025, 5:19 PM UTC

Political Column - Opening Avenues of Opportunity

The heart of entrepreneurship and development is initiative. The nemesis is bureaucratic red tape. Each has a purpose. The one to conquer scarcity in the world and provide for our desires. The other…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Apr 2, 2021, 5:11 AM UTC

Philosophy Forum - Part 5

Here we go again. The subject is ethics this time. I don't particularly like how this first question is phrased, because it doesn't make the problem plain. Nevertheless, I won't write an article on t…

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Jeffrey Martin
@jeffreymartin Feb 7, 2021, 10:31 PM UTC

Philosophy Forum - Part 4

Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. What is truth? How do we know? Important and difficult questions that will be debated as long as there are humans with the ability to debate them. The two que…

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