In 1215 A.D. the good people of England summoned King John to Runnymede to sign the Magna Carta.
The state had exhausted them with its 100 Years' War to secure and expand territory in France.
The Magna Carta said the state must ask express permission to commit to war the lives and treasure of its subjects from those subjects.
Magna Carta found its way into the congressional war powers clause of the US Constitution because of our Anglo-Saxon heritage.
The principle of Magna Carta is now dead, and if we want to survive we must restate it good and hard now before it is too late.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.
What does this tell you about who is running the show in Washington and on Wall Street?
About Me
- Paul Rux, Ph.D.
- Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, United States
- Paul Rux holds three degrees from the University of Wisconsin - Madison: Ph.D. (Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis), M.A.L.S. (Library & Information Studies), B.A. (History & Integrated Liberal Studies). He holds a M.A. in Educational Theory from the University of Toronto, where he was a Graduate Fellow. He also attended Trinity College, University of Dublin, as a special one-year student in the Honours School of History and Political Science. He is a founding member of the Knights of Divine Mercy. His wife Jane and he live in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. They have four grandchildren, the delights of their lives. He is an active member of the World Future Society, has published in its journal The Futurist, and presented at its annual international conference.
Paul Rux, Ph.D.
Permanent Things
Healthy personal and social order depend on a firm, time-tested moral order first.
"The Permanent Things" include the Ten Commandments despite court rulings based on the current fad for Ethical Relativism.
Time-tested institutions
"The Permanent Things" are bulwarks against personal and social deviance and dysfunction.
Paul & Jane Rux
Proud grandparents of young Wyatt and baby Allison
Permanent Things
Duty, Honor, Country
"The Permanent Things" include sadly human evil.
Conservatives do not trust modern psycho-babble to cure and curb human evil.
Wyatt Earp
Conservatives know humans never outgrow their need for just law and order, good and hard.
Hometown Hero Ted Tredinnick
(Left-right) D. Tredinnick (son to Ted), Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton (presents award), T. Tredinnick (age 93), P. Rux (son-in-law to Ted), State Capitol
"The Permanent Things" include basic laws of economic.
"Americans do not believe the laws of economics apply to them." - H.L. Mencken
Dr. Rux (left) & M.B.A. students
Upper Iowa University, Madison, Wisconsin Center
Dr. Rux presents NFIB scholarship.
NFIB scholarships go to outstanding youth entrepreneurs.
Paul Rux & Aunt Dorothy
The human race is a partnership between generations past, present, and future. Its survival trumps all other agendas.
The themes of history repeat.
The themes of history remain constant. They are part of the "Permanent Things."
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