“Given ’em Hell Harry:” Reflections on Plain Speaking President Harry S Truman
Harry S. Truman is one of my favorite presidents. And I’m not even a Democrat. So why, then, is “give ‘em hell” Harry one of my favorite presidents?
History
The Congressional Naming Commission (CNC)
The Congressional Naming Commission (CNC) was a body authorized as part of the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Its eight commissioners included two retired Army generals, a retired Navy admiral and a retired Marine Corps general. It also had academics with imposing credentials. One commissioner is a professor emeritus at West Point and another is a senior …
We Are Not Victims if We Choose Not to Be
If we accept victimhood, we cede control. That last step into tyranny is an exceptionally small but disturbingly consequential step.
Leftist History Repeats and it’s an Ugly Rhyme
Because history is now considered racist by leftists, and they dominate public education, few Americans know or remember the history of their own country.
Inconvenient Truths about Slavery & Reparations in America
A committee in San Francisco just released a proposal for reparations that includes a one-time payment of $5 million to each eligible Black resident.
Joe Biden Threatens Americans – Again
Having learned nothing from Martin Luther King Jr., Joe Biden commemorated MLK day by threatening his fellow citizens.
Joshua And Judges
Joshua and Judges. We fight in wars for a variety of reasons, some justified and some not. A lot of weight should be placed on justification when often, wars are fought solely to distract, or to take something, like land. All countries that engage in warring against other countries do it for the …
A 2023 MLK Retrospective
A 2023 MLK Retrospective. This week was the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day holiday. His is the only national holiday named for one man. Formerly, that honor was reserved for George Washington. But, his birthday was watered down to “President’s Day” because Lincoln wasn’t honored in like manner and two holidays in the dead …
Cousin of Coretta Scott King REALLY Despises New MLK Sculpture; Publishes Scathing Response
A massive bronze sculpture honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Loretta Scott King was unveiled on the Boston Common on Friday. The work, titled “The Embrace,” was created by Washington state conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. It is his interpretation of a photo of the two taken on the day King learned he’d …
In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
With today being the federal holiday celebrating and honoring Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s birthday, I thought it would be appropriate to take a moment to remember his famous “I Have a Dream” speech and what God did in our midst through his life and in that season. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke …
Art Cole: On Statues and Stuff
Art Cole expounds on statues and stuff…the inanity of the leftist claim that removing them will make your problems disappear.
Primer for the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Part 2
The U.S. joins the Chinese communist Party Cover-Up of the Laboratory Origin of the COVID-19 Virus
The American Left Go Full Neo-con!
I always expect the neoconservatives like Bill Kristol, Max Boot and Jennifer Rubin, none of whom ever met a war in which they did not want American involvement, to be pushing to fight, fight, fight, but I’ll admit to some to surprise in seeing Salon’s Amanda Marcotte going full-neocon! Zelenskyy visit exposes a GOP rift …
What We Promise in the Preamble to Our Constitution
We should always consider what we promise in the Preamble to our Constitution, the supreme law of our land and what should guide our costs and legislatures.
A Lesson on Gun Control from Wounded Knee
Recently I received an e-mail reminding me that December 29 will be the 131st Anniversary of the murder of 297 Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota…an abject example of the result of gun control. These Native Americans, in their winter camp, were murdered on Dec. 29, …
Our States Need to Reunite
Greetings my fellow Americans! While I don’t wish to speculate at this time whether our representative republic is truly “over,” it seems pretty clear that, from the results of our most recent election cycle, our federated system is quite broken. And while several key reasons for this most recent disappointment could be identified, of the …
An Abiding Contract With America
An Abiding Contract With America; A breach of contract is a failure, without legal excuse, to perform any promise that forms all or part of [a] contract.[1] On September 27, 1994, The Contract with America was signed. It outlined a legislative agenda pursued by Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party during the first 100 days of …
I Do Not Consent!!
The Declaration of Independence, was our founders withholding their “consent of the governed” from the tyranny of King George.
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXX
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXX; A day that will live in infamy of one kind or another. In Part XIV, our last segment, we examined a stain from the D.C swamp that should soon be eliminated. This week, we examine a different kind of a stain on our culture and our country, most recently …