Toward America’s Next Great Awakening, Rolling Thunder, Part II
I hesitate using the term "great awakening" here lest I get a chewing out by Larry Schweikart, a real historian, for pirating that term, for they were recognized periods in American history. But because...
Lamentations for a Fall that has not yet Occurred?
If you know your roof is leaking, your foundation sinking, or your pipes are leaking, you get them fixed. You call in a plumber or a specialist. It's a matter of survival.
What you don't do...
Character, in Search of Humility
Is it a sign of less character to be vain? How about excessively vain?
Is it sign of low character to be arrogant? Or just excessive arrogant?
Is it a sign of low character to display condescension...
The Many Oaths of Jean-Jacques Dessaline
I doubt anyone here knows of Jean-Jacques Dessaline.
He was the first president of Haiti after the former slave-island had defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, who had invaded the island with an...
No Greater Love; Denying the Devil His Due
(A Memorial Day theme, cross-posted at VeteransTales.org, this is also one of the major themes of that entire site. Come show us some love.)
In the mid 90s, before I began traveling to the Soviet...
Who Shook the Jar, by Mark Twain
https://youtu.be/-uX1sgH3iEo
Says it all about who's turning Americans against Americans