Some months ago, a fellow veteran and colleague recommended that I read William Manchester’s The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War. It’s especially delightful when an author has researched the topic in Read more…
Recently I learned that the fast food chain McDonald’s will be further automating their ordering system. Now they will need fewer people. I don’t patron fast-food restaurants much anymore as I have committed to a diet and managed to lose 20 pounds Read more…
This week a restaurant in Richmond, Virginia decided to refuse service to a faith-based organization that holds constitutionally permissible beliefs that servers in that restaurant found objectionable. It was blatant viewpoint discrimination. The Virginia Family Foundation, founded decades ago to advocate Read more…
Have you thought lately about all the different forms of government that a people can subject themselves to or to which they are subjugated? The one we are most familiar with is, of course, democracy. Most of us know what that means, Read more…
The United States men’s soccer team defeated Iran this week in a much-watched match in Doha, Qatar. I am not a huge fan of soccer –or what sports fans outside of the United States refer to as football. But I watched this Read more…
When I initiated these weekly updates, I began using the postscript, scribendo cogito, or “I think by writing.” That is part of a Latin phrase preceded by docendo disco, “I learn by teaching.” For me, teaching and writing go together like writing and coffee. I love Read more…
As the results from Florida rolled in on Election Night, 2022, it appeared that a Red Wave would wash across America. But as the night wore on, that Republican sweep did not materialize. Indeed, it was a slack tide. And when all the Read more…
The midterm elections are now less than a week away and, like many of you, I will be glad when it’s over. Political candidates have overtaken the airwaves. People on both sides are riveted on the polls. One is left to speculate Read more…
When I served in the Virginia General Assembly, I learned the hard lesson that campaigning isn’t governing. Campaigning is the argument to eventually govern. Most people who enter politics do so with an agenda in mind. That agenda is based on their Read more…
Sunrises at our home on the Northern Neck on the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay are stunning. Our Creator God formed them marvelously. Fed by the Potomac along with 149 other major rivers and streams and 100,000 smaller tributaries, the Bay Read more…