What’s Peculiar Isn’t Peculiar-Nothing New Under The Sun
What’s Peculiar Isn’t Peculiar; Name that quote: “There is nothing new under the sun.” What seems peculiarly unique in the affairs of humanity isn’t.
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Book Review-The First Conspiracy
A great book review: Attempting to unmask the plot against the George Washington
A Birthday Wish List for the U.S. Army
It is the U.S. Army’s 248th birthday, time to make a wish and blow out the candles. Not long after America’s Revolutionary War began in April 1775, an appeal was made to all thirteen states to join in the struggle for American liberty. The result was the delegates of the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia. They …
Happy Birthday To The United States Army!
“Stand your ground,” Parker ordered. “Don’t fire unless fired upon. But if they want to have a war let it begin here.”
The Old Jew and the Indian
The Hebrews, like the Stoics, did not have the benefit of modern science, neither were they fools. Their brightest people looked at the world that surrounded them and tried to make sense of it in the same way that we do.
The Cave Painting and the Grave
The cave painting and the grave tell us that early man was aware of himself and thought about himself as an individual, and as mortal.
Elon Musk: The Woke Mind Virus Infecting Us
In late April, Elon Musk went on Real Time With Bill Maher and discussed the “woke mind virus” that’s infecting nearly everything nowadays.
It’s A Cemetery, For Crying Out Loud!
Apparently it is the will of the United States Congress that, in the interests of sensitivity and inclusiveness, we go into our cemeteries, and then search for and remove items that might offend someone who’s not related by blood or heritage to anyone buried there.
History Wars in Virginia
History Wars in Virginia; The Virginia School Board corrected their awful first draft of the Standards of Learning for History and Social Studies. The Democrats controlling the Virginia Senate rejected the Republican Governor’s appointments to the Virginia Board of Education for cleaning up the CRT and other errors in the first draft. The better, revised draft …
Independence Day, the Beginning of the Most Powerful Country on Earth
The British treatment of the colonies over the first few months of the American Revolutionary War, which had treated them as manifestly rebellious and enemies, gave force to arguments for independence.
Secretary of Defense Austin Reinforces His Qualifications to Resign
And His Woke Sidekick, too Part 1
USMA Class of 1972, Proud and True, 50 Years After (Part 1 of 3)
The West Point Class of 1972 entered at the height of the Vietnam War. We went, expecting to fight in Vietnam, when our generation and America was split in two. The War ended when the author was in winter Ranger School.
The Stoics Today
What were the lessons of the Stoics, why were they critical in Admiral Stockdale’s survival as a POW, and what can they tell us today?
Honoring Our Confederate Dead (2022)
More Americans died fighting one another in “The Recent Unpleasantness (1861-1865)” than all of our other wars put together. Every year honoring the Confederate half of that most terrible war has its unique highlights and nuances. This year the Army is culturally cleansing the names of its forts. So, the unspoken post-war compromise – where Southerners could honor their soldiers’ valor if they ignored the abuses of Federal aggression and stayed silent about Yankee war crimes – is over.
Are We Suffering From Shock?
The past two years hves been full of sudden, violent mental and emotional disturbances. Those events have caused a disturbance in the equilibrium of this Nation, in the permanence of this Nation.
A Country’s Goals
How does a country go about setting up what it defines as its goals? What should those goals be?
The Fourth Turning Crisis Has Arrived
Sweeping political and cultural transformations occur during times of crisis. Our nation is in such a time now, and significant change may soon be coming whether we want it or not.
And Quiet Flows The Don
Putin’s War against Ukraine made me wonder what’s become of the Don Cossacks. The Cossacks, like all of Russia and Ukraine suffered horribly from 1914 to 1991. They’ve had hard times since then. Now, they’re back in a time of war and tragedy.
Reconstructing History, Part 3: Social Justice Movements
The preamble to the Constitution and the self-evident truths in the Declaration Independence are the enduring truths. We may have strayed from them at times, but they have guided the vector of American civilization. They are why Americans dismantled racism and sought fairness while maintaining prosperity. Racial narratives and a re-writing history and destroying the institutions of prosperity are not the way.
Reconstructing History, Part 2: The Maskirovka of History
Reconstructing History, Part 2: The Maskirovka of History Traditional wisdom is the state has a monopoly the power to enact laws and compel their enforcement. As the Commander of CJTF-180 in Afghanistan once told me, “that briefs well, but can you do it?” Over the relevant range of western civilization since the Treaty of …