Category: Government

  • Outwitted

    Outwitted

    He drew a circle that shut me out– Heretic, a rebel, a thing to flout.But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in! Edwin Markham This quote came to mind today when I was finishing the third chapter of “The Coddling of the American Mind”. The first…

  • Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural

    Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural

    With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan,…

  • Valid Points From Both Sides Justify a Delay of Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh

    Valid Points From Both Sides Justify a Delay of Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh

    I probably spent way too much time today watching the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. I watched the entire hearing with Dr Ford and then the entire hearing with Judge Kavanaugh. I know that this has been discussed from virtually every angle imaginable. I simply have two thoughts to share. There were valid points made by both…

  • America Welcomes the World

    America Welcomes the World

      In May of 1895, the ship Teutonic left the port in Liverpool, England, bound for the United States of America. On the ship was a three-year-old girl, Hannah Askew. She and her family were traveling to America to be reunited with her father. The family had moved from England to Australia in 1888, because…

  • Respecting the Office of President of the United States

    Respecting the Office of President of the United States

    Today I decided to fly the American flag at my house to celebrate the office of President of the United States of America. In this country we have a remarkable pattern of peacefully transferring power from one president to another. This election was very contentions and divisive and for all that love America I would…

  • Vote FOR Evan McMullin . . . not AGAINST another candidate.

    Vote FOR Evan McMullin . . . not AGAINST another candidate.

    “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, … to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and…