Sometimes a phrase originated by a person becomes part of the lexicon of the language. One of those is “fifteen minutes of fame”. Most attribute these words to the artist,…
Month: October 2017
In our last look at how history is written and interpreted, we managed to isolate several figures in our shared history who towered above their contemporaries. After Columbus, James Wolfe,…
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In 2008, a hopeful America elected to the presidency the first ever black American. It mattered little that Barak Obama had a white mother or that his father was a…
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Many historical books and essays recount the records and exploits of exceptional leaders — kings, presidents, important people who made headlines and influenced their times. In the past several decades,…
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Perhaps one of the lessons I have learned in my life is how much what I was taught at home has stayed with me. Because of this, I suppose in…
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While reading about the 1890s yesterday, I came across one of the great inspirational speeches in America’s history. On July 9, 1896, a former congressman from Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan,…
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Democrats seem to be drifting farther and farther to the left with every passing day, frightened that they will lose the young voters who flocked to Bernie Sanders and his…
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Growing up in north central Missouri, the only sport I was really interested in was baseball. Our high school (good ‘ol Madison’s Panthers) only played basketball and baseball — no…
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Last week, I wound up at a hospital for children. So you ask, why would a septuagenarian, a twice retired teacher and present preacher, go to a place where children…
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We live, in the center of the country, in a world that is very different from the world of the coasts, most particularly of the big cities found there —…
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