Jack Pelham

The student loans that are getting so much attention at present were never legal in the first place. Under our Constitution, the United States Congress never has had authority to initiate such a program. Had the people of the United States nipped it in the bud, it wouldn’t be biting them on the heinie right now.

It’s been 21 years now since it happened. Have you paid enough attention yet to figure out that the official 9/11 Commission explanation is bogus? And have you paid enough attention to figure out that one of the most popular alternate explanations is also bogus? Or have you long-since given up on investigating it?

And if you’re one of the millions who doesn’t believe the official government report, are you actively pushing for criminal prosecution? Or have you long-since given up on justice?

The one child has learned to
Explore what is new,
While the other cowers from it.

The first learns to manage risk,
And the second, to be ruled by it.

Suppose you had to actually
Use the mind God gave you
In order to understand God—
Just like you have to use
The legs he gave you
In order to stand.

We manage to see much, though not all,
Of the harm others do to us.
Yet we see much less of the harm
That we do to others.

And this raises the question
Of what we want to see.

The blind may manage to see some blurry value
In someday going to heaven to be with Jesus,
But none of them can see value in learning
To act and think like him right now.

The wisdom of the ages
Has left its pearls strewn
Along the timeline from
The Beginning until now.

How poor, then, are those
Who gather only the pearls
Of this present day, forgoing
The perspective of what
Had been learned before.

“Wisdom of the ages” is a term I first heard in the writings of Karen Glass.

I do not want to control you
As you are convinced
That I do.

I wouldn’t mind, however,
If you should take a notion
To control yourself.

“I am not empty man,” he proclaimed.
And at that, he was hard-put to explain
Why those words kept echoing
Inside his soul.

He seemed unconvinced
By their assertion that
His profusion of imperfect proofs
Somehow added up
Into a good one.