Who knew blogging could be so much fun?!  Time flies…huh?!  One year ago (yesterday), Under the Dome, my on-line journal, turned 1.  (Link to first post, Click HERE.)

Many who have contributed to this on-line record of occurances, experiences, and observations have enjoyed the privilege of participation in my little corner of the continuing American Experiment.  Thank you.

James Madison expressed his thoughts on the necessity of free public discourse when he stated, “Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.”  (James Madison, Public Opinion, December 19, 1791)

Opinion and the ability to freely express one’s opinions is the bedrock of a truely free Society.  For a society to maintain its sovereignty, its singular autonomy, that community must be built on the god-granted priniciple of free speech.

And, so I go on…and on…and on…