A knowledge of the past is a great help to us in understanding the present and predicting the future. Alexander Tyler, a history professor at the University of Edinburgh in the late nineteenth century and one time Judge Advocate of Scotland, was a student of classical Greece.  Writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic, […]

It’s interesting to think about words and their origins.  Every year we are adding more words to the English language.  Often they originate in the entertainment world, or sometimes they are derived from new technology.  In addition to new words, we find new uses for some of the old ones. One word that fascinates me […]

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” At no moment in our nation’s history has that ancient saying seemed more appropriate than today. Last month Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a measure that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to children in grades pre-K through grade 3. The legislation […]

Today, April 18, 2022, marks the 80th anniversary of one of the bravest exploits in American military history.  On April 18, 1942, eighty American flyers took off in sixteen medium bombers from the deck of the United States aircraft carrier Hornet. All these men were volunteers, and it was an incredibly daring mission.  It was […]

“We hold these truths to be self-evident.” These words appear in the Declaration of Independence as the American colonies attempted to justify separation from their mother country, Great Britain. The writer was appealing to a higher law, a natural law, God’s law. Our nation is built on this law.  Indeed, the men who later framed […]

Some commentators refer to the work of the January 6 Committee as a witch hunt, other cheer the committee on. I do agree that the events of January 6, 2020, needed to be investigated.  After all, the attack on the Capitol was a serious assault on constitutional government and the rule of law.  Yet there […]

As the 7th verse of the Book of Proverbs phrases it, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. If men would only absorb that essential truth! If we fear the Lord, we will obey his command to love one another, and out of that love would spring blessings beyond measure. So, let […]

This week I spoke to a friend about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop.  Those contents expose the Biden family’s influence peddling and foreign entanglement.  My friend was not interested, He dislikes Donald Trump with a passion, and he puts on blinders as he examines anyone who opposes Trump.  He admits that Biden has faults, […]

As new revelations come to light, it becomes more and more apparent that over the past few years the American people have been deceived on a massive scale by left-wing operatives.  Their deceptions have been amazingly successful, even to the point of convincing many intelligent, patriotic Americans that their vicious lies are the truth.  It […]

In early 1942 I was twelve years old and living on the coast at Carolina Beach, 15 miles north of Cape Fear and about 100 miles south of  Cape Lookout..  There are said to be more than two thousand shipwrecks along the North Carolins coast, some dating from the very first century of European exploration.  […]