In the “Taking Back our Schools” Department, we should have figured out by now we need to be more face-to-face about the changes we want to see returned to our public schools. We’re outlining a teaching program at VeteransTales.org, “Vets…
Category: Religion
Christ Did Not Say, “Blessed are the Vain and Arrogant”
This is a cautionary tale directed at those who self-identify pretty much as the title suggests. This is not to say that Christ did not love such people, which weighs on me terribly, because it is something I find almost…
Why did John Wilkes Booth call Abraham Lincoln a “Tyrant”?
When John Wilkes Booth put a bullet in Abraham Lincoln’s head at Ford’s Theatre on April 14th.1865, he jumped over the balcony rail onto the stage, broke his leg, then stood up, faced the audience, and proclaimed “Sic semper Tyrannis”, or “thus always to…
Christianity and the Changing Face of Islam since 2001
I published a short reminder in 2001 about the generational differences between the people who had to confront the killers of 9/11 and those who had to deal with the alliance who attacked Pearl Harbor and almost succeeded in destroying the Jewish race. That…
First Principles about America; First Questions
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design? I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy and theology. But by the…