April 2025

Travelling halfway across America in two days can be an eye-opener.  Shelley and I generally like a long drive, as tiresome as that can be at time.  I suppose the pace of life—that is, they way you take in the world around you—is more relaxing in a car than sitting Read more

Each year Shelley and I travel to Kansas to attend the Officers of the First Division Annual Dinner. It’s been a tradition in the “Big Red One” since the end of WWI for those who served with the division in combat to gather together to record and honor the sacrifices Read more

True confession.  I am an internationalist.  Bear with me.  That does NOT mean I am not also very supportive of being a nationalist—indeed of being “America First.”  Nor does it mean I am a “neocon” in the sense of one wanting to go to war with everyone on the planet. Read more

Maybe you have taken note.  Those on the far left of the political spectrum in America are unhappy.  No, actually they are apoplectic.  They are in high dudgeon having lost to President Donald Trump a second time.  Moreover, he defeated yet another Democrat female candidate.  This first one, Hillary Clinton, Read more