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When it comes to political issues, original intent is an issue that tends to separate liberals and conservatives. The conservative viewpoint is that the original intent of the U.S. Constitution should be accepted and the liberal approach is usually that it is a document that needs to be flexible to the wishes of the majority.. ... Read more

Thinking is a precursor to doing and as such it is most important.

Loyalty to principle should always take precedence over loyalty to a man. As long as the man upholds the principle there is no problem. However occasionally a man will act or speak contrary to those principles and then there is a conflict. It is especially difficult when the man has established the principles. BJ had ... Read more

Years ago, Thomas A. Gelardi explained so brilliantly (in my opinion) that when the same objective is held by two or more schools of thought, that have the they will begin to look and act alike and utilize the same means. I believe he used automobiles as an example. When I was a kid we ... Read more

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Chiropractic philosophy demonstrates the most important aspect of chiropractic practice-coherence.

Those signing the Declaration of Independence as well as those framing the Constitution apparently did not want to enumerate every right that we had so they lumped the right to property/possessions under the heading “the pursuit of happiness”. Everyone’s concept of happiness differed and everyone had a different idea of what property was, land, a ... Read more

We often refer to the Council on Chiropractic Education as a chiropractic cartel. While it is true that drug cartels, for example, have the bad side-effect of dealing in death and addiction, that is not their major purpose. A cartel’s purpose is to make money, to promote their own welfare. It is not to destroy ... Read more

Food is a necessary detail of life, so is being free of nerve interference at the vertebral level-chiropractic.

Jesus was the first chiropractor-BJ Palmer He suggested that Jesus’ “laying on of hands was a chiropractic adjustment”. The above statements made at an early Lyceum prove that the most genius of people (and BJ was) can make stupid statements. I know from personal experience (not that I am in the genius category with BJ). ... Read more