Wreck of the Sea Venture 1609 Samuel Jordan was evidently the first Jordan to settle in English America. Some reports say that Samuel was born in Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, England, and his birth year is given as 1575 or 1578. Other sources indicate that he was born in the adjoining county of Wiltshire. Samuel was […]
ICE is getting a bad press. Perhaps they deserve it, but I’m not so sure. Certainly they need a better public relations team. I question ICE tactics in Minneapolis. But much of the problem springs from an uncooperative attitude on the part of local leaders. I hope that things will change now that Holman has […]
Those of you who read this blog know that I am a Trump supporter. I am aware of his many warts, but I believe he truly wishes what is best for this nation and I approve of most of his actions in pursuit of American “greatness.” Contrariwise, I am appalled by the anti-Christian bias and […]
Why does Trump arouse such an intense degree of hatred among his political opponents? In prior years, though I may have disagreed with their politics, I considered most of these present-day Trump haters to be honorable persons. There were exceptions, of course. A few of them were nothing more than corrupt politicians who deceived their […]
Last week I watched Miranda Devine’s interview of Robert Costello concerning his service as Rudy Guliani’s lawyer. From this interview plus recent testimonies before Congressional committees, I drew the following conclusions. By March 2020 FBI officials were fully cognizant of material in the Hunter Biden laptop that would have been absolutely devastating to the Biden […]
Trump strode into the economic forum at Davos, Switzerland, like a braggadocios conquering hero. They regarded him with the same sort of awe and fear that they would have regarded a modern Genghis Khan. But Trump’s weapon was not military, it was economic. He used the United States’ economic power and the threat of tariffs […]
As an emerging teenager in the eary 1940s, in no way was I perfect, and I did not consider myself to be so. However, I was a romantic idealist through and through. I read biographies of Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln and was familiar with stories of Roland and Oliver, Sir Gallahad and Robert […]
The Trump administration certainly knows how to keep us on edge. They are trying to manage a large number of bouncing balls. Is Trump a master juggler? Time will tell. The Venezuelan situation remains unresolved. The dictator is gone, but his coercive infrastructure remains. Can we put sufficient pressure on the remnants of the Maduro […]
Trump’s Venezuelan strategem was bold, brilliant and incredibly risky. The comparisons with Iraq are inevitable. In both instances the United States was dealing with a ruthless dictator who posed a serious threat to us and to international stability. In the first case we formed an international coalition and invaded Iraq. The defeat and deposition of […]
The Trump administration is attempting to deal with a number of bouncing balls in both the domestic and international arenas All of these situations are difficult to manage, and there is no guarantee of success. Two of the international issues relate to Venezuela and Iran. In Venezuela we managed to get rid of Maduro, but […]
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