These are difficult times for those of us who like to visualize our great nation as “a shining city on a hill.” Our present leaders are projecting an entirely different image of America, and some Christian conservatives, out of a sense of frustration, are suggesting that our country can return to greatness only by finding […]
Some years ago, I read a novel by Nevil Shute titled Ruined City. It was about a town in England that had lost its industry and was in a state of severe decay. Fortunately, in the story, a financier, through great effort and with much personal cost to himself, was able to revive the town […]
Maureen Dowd of the New York Times recently wrote the following: Biden was elected to be Not Trump, to be a comfortable old shoe. He overpromised and underdelivered. People wanted competence and stability and instead we get incompetence and instability. But. as hapless as Biden and his coterie are, we can’t give up on the […]
How great Thou art! “When I in awesome wonder consider all the universe Thy hands have made.” Pick up a handful of sand at the ocean shore and try to count the individual grains of sand. Then think of all the grains of sand on all the beaches of every ocean and sea on earth. […]
In 2015, just after the riots in Baltimore, I wrote an essay about America’s race problems. I believed it to be a reasonable review and analysis of the subject, and I submitted it to several magazines for possible publication. No one was interested,. I could not even stir up a rejection slip. Therefore, I posted […]
Churchill and Stalin I confess that I do not understand Bill Kristol and George Will. They were former stalwarts of conservative orthodoxy, but their hatred of Donald Trump led them to abandon the Republican Party and announce their support for Joe Biden during the 2020 election. As far as I know, they have not expressed […]
A gentleman named Spellman responded to my blog post “Tit for Tat.” I truly appreciate all comments. He has contributed more than once, and I find his input very interesting and helpful. In my post I bewailed the never-ending investigations into the conduct of one’s political opposition. Mr. Spellman responded: “Your point is reasonable. Yet, […]
A conservative news source announced that House Republican leaders are planning at least seven investigations of the Democrat controlled Congress should they regain control of the House in 2022. I can understand why the Republicans would wish to do this. Some recent Democrat party actions have been an affront to good sense and good government, […]
Over the years I have owned many automobiles. Most I bought new, but occasionally I purchased a previously owned vehicle. I was fortunate enough to get good service from almost all the cars I bought regardless of whether they were a product of American Motors, Chrysler, Ford or General Motors. My memories of World War […]
A new language has developed in Federal agencies. This new language has emerged over the course of many years. It bears some resemblance to English, but the similarities between English and Federalese appear to be slowly fading. The following bit of Federalese was extracted from a bulletin issued by my old agency some years ago. […]
