Protecting “Democracy in America” from Hot-Tub Socialists
Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Prize academician who was many thing to many people; social scientist, economist, and classic social liberal of the 1940s and 50s. So far as I know, however, he...
Mrs Brophy and the Ring Dang Doo
I've told stories of my mountain home before, and also stories about the differences between racial feelings about blacks and whites in the South and in the North at the time of Martin Luther King.
We had two major...
Famous Common People I Have Known, SGT Marty Gays in the Military, an Old...
"Policies Concerning Homosexuals" have changed since I was an Army defense lawyer in the closing years of the Vietnam War. "Being boarded out" was a large part of my defense work.
I'd be interested to...
Famous Common People I Have Known, Earl Hodge and Federal Aid to Education
In my freshman year in high school, 1960, I participated in the Kentucky high school regionals of what was called The State Speech Festival. Organized like Spelling Bee competitions, the best of the best...
Famous Soviet Russians I’ve Colluded With
The Russians and Democrats are not the same. I've actually known honorable Russians.
In 1991 I met a man from the USSR named Valentin Suchkov. I was working with a Ukrainian trading company in Cincinnati,...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...