Upon opening my bottle of Snapple Iced Tea, my son snatched the cap from my hand and read the “real fact:”

The first penny had the motto “mind your own business.”

Not that I’m distrustful, but I checked out the accuracy of this Snapple revelation.  Here it states :

In 1787 the Continental Congress of the Confederation commissioned the first penny. Designed by Ben Franklin, the front featured the sun rising over a sun dial. The word “Fugio,” Latin for “I fly,” sat next to the sundial, reminding everyone that tempus fugit. But most importantly, at least as far as this article is concerned, was the motto under the sundial, which admonished everyone to “Mind Your Business.”


If we had to condense the Bill of Rights, boil all ten of them them down into a single right, the demi-glasse of the constitution would be “The People have A Right To Be Left Alone.”






Where are the originalists now?