: About Me

Hello fellow writers and anyone else out there, my name is Sean Jackson. I'm a forty year old father and husband. I live in Angier, North Carolina which is near Raleigh. It's not really a hick town but we can see some hick towns from here.

If you don't count a brief time when I was an op-ed writer for a SMALL community college paper about a decade ago, this is my first writing endeavor that doesn't wholly consist of firing off an article and ciculating it amongst family and friends and nowhere else. Sometimes life gets in the way of things you know you should be doing.

Writing was pretty much the only thing I've ever really been good at. It's been a long time since I've written anything at all much less anything of substance. The gears are decidedly rusty. In my ten plus years of inactivity, I've felt there was something missing. I've had a lot of starts and stops over the years but never the type of commitment I feel now.

I was recently laid off and while I realize that a fully sustainable writing career is not right around the bend, whatever I end up doing to pay the bills for now, writing will no longer be a dream shuffled off in a dusty corner somewhere. It will be my career eventually and, Lord willing, it will always be in my life from here on.

My passion is ...

Faith, Family, Friends, and Football in that order

I know too much about ...

trivial history

My parents always told me ...

be good

My childhood ambition ...

Archeologist. Before discovering my love of history.

My favorite memory ...

is one I can actualy remember

Why I write ...

In real life I stumble over my words and do not convey any sort of confidence. But when I write I am somehow transformed. I am more confident, some say cocky, and my words flow. These are two different worlds indeed.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Ann Coulter' s Godless and a book about the Barbary Pirates (I multitask)

My first job ...

McDonalds

My best moment ...

Enflaming people's passions both for good and bad with the articles I wrote in college and challenging people to think.

My inspiration ...

God and the founding fathers

Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Why the Electoral College rules US presidential elections

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The Electoral College ensures our vote really counts It sounds archaic, even absurdly undemocratic, but the electoral college is really quite important. Without it, politicians would only concentrate on large population areas and thus would craft their campaigns and even the national platforms based solely upon the desires of urban voters in the largest population centers. Places like New York City , Chicago, and Los Angeles would dominate the political landscape while small population states would have virtually no say in the national body politic. Yes it would truly be one man one vote, ...

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