Thanksgiving is behind us and we have just celebrated the first Sunday of Advent, the time leading up to Christmas day when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. In today’s secularized…
Category: History
We are only days from the election which will determine the future course of this country and the freedom with which you will be able to live your life. What exactly…
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Last night’s third and last Presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle is now complete. Watching all 96 minutes of this exercise in (mostly) futility, some observations are in order. The…
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World War I was called the “War to end all wars,” a war to make the world safe for Democracy. And in order to see peace reign, leaders did what they had…
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I propose to send the United States into an ‘isolationist’ foreign policy. However, this policy would differ greatly from the period between World Wars 1 and 2 in that our nation…
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It appears that President Trump will soon get a long ways toward keeping one of his campaign promises he made in 2016. Repeatedly he claimed he would end the “endless” wars…
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In his work, published in several volumes in 1905/1906, George Santayana, the Spanish born American philosopher/historian, famously proclaimed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. These…
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Robin DiAngelo wrote a book entitled White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism. The book is, as you would expect, a collection of ridiculous statement that…
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The Emancipation of black slaves and the adoption of the 13th amendment to the Constitution did not, sadly, end the problems for the black population of America, particularly those in the…
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After completing our first year as teachers, a friend and I decided to take a three-week leisurely tour of the south and east. It was 1970, less than 10 years after the…
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