Ecclesiastes 12:10

   It is amazing to me how many things we can't do anymore because of one big worry, we might get sued . In our over litigious world there are people who will sue over anything. People will sue for the most trivial perceived injuries and slights.      Take a San Francisco woman that sued her neighbor over physical and emotional distress because of the noise their son’s basketball made in the driveway. They fought the suit but after 8 years and $35,000 in legal bills they and their insurance gave up and settled out of court. This type of behavior destroys communities and business . When anyone abuses the people around them the whole neighborhood suffers.      Proverbs 3:29-30 tells us,  Do not devise harm against your neighbor, While he lives securely beside you.  Do not contend with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm .” We need to make sure we treat our neighbor with respect and live in a way that be...

  In 1982, Gregory Watson was trying to find a topic for writing assignment for a government class that he was taking at the University of Texas at Austin.  While researching the Equal Rights Amendment, Watson came across documentation of another unratified constitutional amendment dating back to the 1st Congress in 1789 that had been authored by James Madison.  Madison's proposal would delay congressional pay raises until the electorate got a chance to respond.  Intrigued, Watson switched the subject of his paper and researched what was a still-pending constitutional amendment, despite 192 years having elapsed. Watson's paper argued that—unlike the ERA—the 1789 amendment had no deadline within which the nation's state legislatures must have acted upon it and that it could belatedly become part of the U.S. Constitution.  His report recommended—on policy grounds—that the amendment should be ratified, as delaying changes of congressional salary would be bene...