Introduction: Bullies and Cowards (This is over 3000 words, so I recommend you print it out, and highlight it for future reference.) Recently (3/16/2024), in an open speech at Dayton, Ohio, former-President Donald Trump stated that if he doesn’t get…
Category: American Exceptionalism
To be American, (updated with New Facts, New Doors to Open, and Old Truths)
This is updated to 2025 to note the changing of the guard, and the new doors now available to reshape our Republic. A law student takes his date, a med student, to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner. In the course of…
“Papismus Lucifugus”, the Advent of Tribalism in Not Just in Our Politics, but in American Conservatism
I actually had this book, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of Scotland) Divinity School at Marischal College in Aberdeen and an English Jesuit named Francis…
“It is French”, an Introduction for a Lifetime of Observation and Study
A few days ago I mentioned a comment used by Mark Twain, more than once I’m told, to convey a broad principle that perhaps the French are a people that cannot be trusted. My own study of history, including French…
A Letter from Cumberland Gap, Our Last Talk
I had expected a Quickening, but not before Christmas. This is from a Vietnam vet, Infantry platoon leader, college roommate one year, a fine prosecutor, then judge, and a good courthouse philosopher of Thomas Jefferson’s ilk: We will have to…