Joe Vigliotti
Joe Vigliotti is a writer and a Taneytown city councilman. He can be reached through his website at www.jvigliotti.com.
- Freedom is, in nature, neither safe nor guaranteed. It is tenuous and conditional at best. The Founding Fathers understood that when they moved to protect natural rights under law in order to guarantee the moral truth that your freedom ends where mine begins. When you violate another’s rights, you will be held to account under the law. Here, we speak of reason and justice, not fury and revenge — and not taking the law into one’s own hands. It is as true of the community street as it is of the Capitol floor.
- McConnell’s move with a competing bill provides an alternative to what House Democrats have advanced — but there are other problems which persist. Time is not on the side of American citizens, or the current makeup of both sections of Congress. The longer legislators take to provide relief, the worse off Americans are.
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- It was from his faith that Coolidge drew courage and confidence to always seek to do the right thing as a leader. That December, Coolidge issued an address to Congress which not only looked at the national situation, but envisioned a better, normalized future, resounding with the best of the American spirit and the influence of faith.
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- If those who protested coronavirus restrictions had resorted to looting, rioting, attacking federal installations, and violence, the left would be calling for the same kind of response. The difference is political, and that the president is a Republican, and that the president is Trump.
