Just How do We Sort Out This National-Divorce Talk? A Warning
In February, (2023), Congressional member Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a "National Divorce." Actually, one has been evolving for several years now.
The first thing to consider about "national divorces" is that they're almost never...
How War Affects the Home Front When the Home Front is Where the War...
Kursk battlefield is in western Russia, near the Ukrainian border. In 1943 it hosted the largest tank battle in history, one which began the shift of the war on the Russian Front from the...
The Supreme Court, Elections and Natural Law
Question: As he lay dying at age 87 in 1864, I wonder if Chief Justice Roger B Taney had it to do all over again, would he have had any regrets about his decision...
Understanding the Incorporation of the United States of America
One of the failings of teaching American History and Civic has been in not recognizing the that the thinking that goes behind the creation of every corporation goes way back before the 1870s, when...
When is Vigilantism Justified?— “Sky Determines”
I've often said that throughout all history "Sky determines" the rules men and their families have to live by when they move into a new place. The physical terrain; weather and natural enemies, define...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...