The war between left and right on social issues is fascinating to behold. The debate sometimes descends to ridiculous absurdities as each side attempts to win its point. There are vast areas of disagreement, and the contention is often fierce. The debaters, especially those cloaked in anonymity, do not hesitate to use lies, calumny, and […]
I listened carefully to the testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Cavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both of them were powerful witnesses. Each of them has a host of supporters who vouch for their good character, and I had the impression that Ford and Kavanaugh were each telling the absolute truth “as they […]
Whether we realize it or not, we are in a life and death struggle for the minds and souls of our people. All the old cultural anchors that once kept us fast are being ripped from the ocean floor, and we have become a ship adrift. The old definitions of marriage and gender, patriotism and […]
I am thinking about the ongoing brouhaha about Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. The real argument is about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy and his positions, inferred but never stated, on hot button social issues such as abortion. Having failed to thwart Kavanaugh’s confirmation on the basis […]
Christine Ford has accused Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to serve as Supreme Court Justice, of a sexual assault against her at an unidentified home in Montgomery County, Maryland, sometime in the summer of 1982. Brett was 17 at that time Christine was 15. Kavanaugh insists on his innocence, Ford proclaims his guilt. Friends of […]
We have been engaged in military operations in Afghanistan for seventeen years. Sometimes it appears that the war will go on forever. If our leaders had been keen students of history, perhaps this could have been avoided. The Romans conquered most of Great Britain in the 1st century, A.D. Caledonia was that part of northern […]
Tomorrow a devastating hurricane is expected to strike the southeastern coast of North Carolina. It brings to mind my own experiences in that area some 64 and 74 years ago. My family had moved to Carolina Beach in May or June of 1938. Over the next six years we had a few severe nor’easters, but […]
Most of you probably remember your first love. Mine is certainly burned into my mind as a series of bittersweet memories. I will never forget those long ago feelings of intense romantic attachment followed by the pain of rejection. I am considered an old man now. The days slip by ever so quickly as I […]
I have lived for 89 years and have been politically aware since the late 1930s, but I have never seen anything like the present level of animosity between our major political parties. Virulent charges flow back and forth every day, and with all the din and smoke of partisan gunfire it is very difficult to […]
The Democratic Party totally dominated elections in the American South from 1890 until after mid-20th Century. The reason for that was the bitter residue left by the Civil War and Reconstruction. Republicans had great difficulty electing anyone to a major political office in the South. White Southern Republicans were few in number, and the black […]
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