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If you’ve ever rebuilt a pier at a river or lake home, you know it’s hard work. We had one that was reclaimed by the Potomac River some months ago and we were resolved to replace it. After all, it’s a great attraction for fishing, tossing in a crab pot for the Read more

I love the summer season. Most people do. There’s much time spent outside, at the beach, lake, parks, you name it. For us, it’s time on the Potomac River or, as the Algonquian tribe named it, “Patawomke” meaning “River of Swans.” It is a favorite place for our family. We sit and enjoy its majestic Read more

Earlier this week, an 18-year-old murderer took the lives of teachers and elementary school children. This morning, twenty-one families awoke again to the horror that their children, their precious ones, were taken from them in a deadly and cowardly act. There’s no reason to name the killer. He deserves just one appellation. Evil. The only Read more

Why did an 18-year-old white supremacist man walk into a Buffalo supermarket and mow down innocent people in a racially-inspired mass murder?            Why did a Chinese U.S. citizen in California a day later walk into a Christian church of Taiwanese Americans, killing one parishioner and wounding ten others even as Read more

Where are the leaders? In the course of American history, leaders of vision have blessed our nation. That was certainly the case with our Founding Fathers. These men were highly educated. That alone is a lesson for us today. There is no substitute for leaders to be knowledgeable, to understand history, to have read and Read more

Abortion is an intensely emotional issue. For people like me, it’s a matter of genuine religious conviction that we protect innocent life as understood in natural law. For others it’s a presumed Constitutional right. I say “presumed” because there has been much debate on whether or not abortion is a right per se secured under Read more

Two years ago, I began writing these weekly missives in the hope that somehow, I could share a bit of wisdom that has accumulated over the years. The update this week marks number 100 in my effort to do so.  I’m sure it comes as no surprise to most of my Read more

When you take a long trip as Shelley and I are doing this week, crossing half of our great continent, you have time to think about things. In a moment of silence when I had muted the radio, I asked Shelley what was on her mind. She is a deep thinker. I wasn’t Read more

For the next two weeks, we’ll be on the road visiting our kids and grandkids in Kansas City. So, I just wanted to touch on a few items this week. Officers of the First Division Dinner: Every year since the end of WWI, the officers of the 1st Infantry Division who have served Read more

I have listened closely to those who have debated one side or the other concerning the role the West should play in Ukraine’s struggle for survival. Vladimir Putin’s war crime-laced naked aggression against Ukraine is nauseating. One need only see the pictures that are now becoming available in the news to see Read more