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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

The seasons of history vary based on the significance of events happening then.  The Roman Empire grew and sprawled across the Mediterranean in a most impressive manner.  At a time when conflict and conquest was the primary means of expansion, Rome perfected those traits.  From the 6th Century BC until Read more

National Security is important.  It’s particularly important these days especially in untangling from the war in Ukraine.  Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea and their subsequently larger invasion of Ukraine in 2022 sent a clear message to the world. And that message?  Vladimir Putin was intent on reassembling the former Soviet Read more

It’s depressing how much the nation is divided.  To be sure I am on the side of a conservative world view. I vote that way. But it is nonetheless divisive.  People in America today seem overly invested in their ideological views.  So much so that relationships between family and friends Read more

If you turn your television on these days, you shouldn’t be surprised to see political rallies in front of federal buildings with animated and spending-abdicated political gas bags screaming at the top of their voices. Their complaint? Well, that we’re ending wasteful government spending and doing so with a presidential Read more