Madness!

  Madness is in the air.  Insanity rules in television newsrooms, and many governing officials appear to have lost their ability to think.  Some of our cities tremble on the brink of anarchy. We are all sinners.  We have a wonderful country in which we take pride, but there is no perfect person, nation, or […]

No Business Like Show Business

  A man stood alone at the bar.  He looked depressed and had been drinking steadily.  The bartender, who knew the man slightly, approached his customer. “Hey, Joe,” he said.  “It looks like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders.” “That the truth,” answers Joe. “What’s the problem, Joe?” “My wife left […]

Will the Truth Come Out?

In this post I copy a recent WND op-ed by Lt. Col. James Zumwalt, USMC (Ret).  I usually do not quote other writers to this extent, but I believe that Zumwalt provides a succinct and cogent description of some of the major political events that produced headlines over the past few years.  His viewpoint is […]

Elections: The Electoral College

There have been frequent complaints about the electoral college and the fact that our President is not chosen by popular vote.  In compliance with the Constitution, each state receives an electoral ballot for each U.S. senator and one for each of its  representatives in Congress.  How the state chooses its electors is up to the […]

What Can We Do?

For the past week our great cities have been torn apart by mobs of citizens protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd while in police custody.  There was no possible excuse for the way which Minneapolis police treated Mr. Floyd, and the guilty parties must be brought to justice.  But what can we do to […]

March!

I understand that some protesters say that they will keep marching in the streets until police brutality against blacks is entirely eliminated. Unfortunately, that means that they will be marching forever. Some men are evil, and a few evil men at times become policemen. It’s the sad truth. No amount of screening will eliminate the […]

Lord, Help Us!

Recently, highly respected General Mattis made some critical remarks about his former boss, President Trump. Unfortunately, Trump could not simply shake these criticisms off. After all, if he gets out of bed he will be criticized. In reply to Mattis, Trump resorted to his usual method of hurling a few mean barbs in the general’s […]

Blockade Runners

  Blockade Runner Modern Greece Run Aground Near Fort Fisher in 1862 When I was a young boy growing up near Greensboro, North Carolina, there were still reminders of the Civil War around us.  It was 65 only years in the past, less time than now separates us from the Korean War.  There were a […]

Virtues and Values

As a ninety year old, one of the saddest and most distressing things I have observed in my lifetime is the loss of manners.  I believe I could write on that subject at some length.  Instead, I have chosen to selectively quote from an article on this subject by Jeff Minick.  For 20 years Mr. […]

The Grapes of Wrath

Today our dear nation is undergoing a hurricane of turbulence.  On top of COVID-19, we now have race riots. As I see our cities burn, I think of God’s admonition in the Old Testament where he spoke of “visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them […]