Hurricane Hazel October 1954 In late September Hurricane Ian forged a destructive path across southern Florida and then struck the coast of South Carolina.  Scores of lives were lost, and there were billions of dollars of property damage.  Clean-up and recovery will take a long time. In recent days I have read news reports of […]

Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute recently wrote the following: “Black business school students at USC protested in 2020 that hearing a professor use the Mandarin phrase for ‘that’—nèi ge—constituted racial harassment, since the Mandarin phrase can sound like the dread ‘N-word.’ The professor was sent on leave for ‘marginalizing, hurting and harming the psychological […]

My son Stuart Jordan recently published a genealogy covering the descendants of Robert and Henry Jordan, brothers living in Virginia’s Middle Peninsula in the middle 1700s.  Robert moved to Halifax County, Virginia in 1779, and Henry, a Revolutionary War veteran, joined him there after the war before later moving on to Tennessee.   Robert had eleven […]

Blowing Rock Early on a morning in early September 1951 my sweetheart and I stood on this beautiful promontory and bade each other a fond farewell.  Shortly thereafter we descended into the valley, and Ann registered as a student at Appalachian State College in Boone, North Carolina. Ann at Appalachian State I was a college […]

In all honesty, I must admit that I am terribly disappointed with yesterday’s election results.  As things now stand, the Republicans will probably take the House with a small majority.  The Senate remains very much in doubt. The outcome forces me to reevaluate.   My conclusions are as follows: One final comment.  It mystifies me that […]

Tomorrow is election day, and I think it proper for me to compose a prayer for this occasion.  This is a critical moment for the future of our country.  Those of you who read my blog know that I have been very hard on the Democrat Party.  Many people support the Democrats, and for years […]

With scant public notice, President Biden and Vice President Harris recently announced that all Federal prisoners being held on a conviction of marijuana possession would be released. Marijuana is being legalized in many states, so on the surface, this would appear to be a just and fair decision; but the facts reveal something different.  No […]

This is a very disturbing post.  It contains several news stories that would seem to portend the possible collapse of western civilization.  The last item is particularly gruesome and sickening.  I publish  out of a conviction that we must wake up and face the enemy.  And who is this enemy? “We are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, […]

I’m angered by the mean words that Biden, Obama, and Clinton are using to describe their Republican opposition.  If you believe them, Republicans, especially Trump supporters, are a threat to Democracy, and we must vote for Democrats if we are to save the republic.  Hyperbole is a mark of every political campaign, but Biden and […]

Stochastic terrorism is a term coined by academics to  describe the public demonization of a person or group that results in the incitement of a violent act that is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted. Some months ago, many people on America’s political left demonized the Supreme Court following revelations that it was […]