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In 2007, Virginia celebrated the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown.  It was a grand event.  The highpoint was when Queen Elizabeth II addressed a joint session of the General Assembly.  As a small gesture, the Jamestown Foundation gave each of us a small potted oak tree. We were told Read more

I’m alone this week back in Virginia while my wife Shelley remains in Kansas City to care for our grandchildren when their mom and dad are in a busy season.  So, in the quiet of our home, I have time to think.  I think a lot about what I’m currently Read more

It took being elected to the Virginia General Assembly for me to appreciate how politicians corrupt the English language to enable profligate spending.  You often see this when legislators spend our money on their priorities to get them reelected.  To be sure, that’s a bit harsh.  Not all spending is Read more

So, what’s ahead? For me it’s a long drive from Missouri to Virginia this coming weekend. Shelley will remain in Kansas City with the kids and grandkids for a few weeks. The drive will be lonely without my co-pilot. That’s fine because the grandkids love their Grammy who fixes them Read more

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

As I write this, I’m contemplating my life having reached the age of 74 years today. There were times when I wondered if I would make it this far.  If my mother were alive today, she would no doubt relate harrowing events when she was sure I would find an Read more

The political debate in America has become alarmingly toxic between those who seek to change the nation and those who want to preserve it.  Now both sides of the political spectrum are working hard to press their particular vision upon the other. Each wants change immediately and are seemingly willing Read more