Watching the Trump Administration honor the American military this Memorial Day Weekend, I felt a wave of relief as well as pride. Relief that the four-year nightmare of disdain and blind risk for our soldiers and sailors under the previous…
I was 10 years old when someone told me, “You know Gene Hackman is from here.” We were standing outside the Fischer Theatre in Danville, Illinois. The marquee was faded, the paint peeling. The theatre, once a staple of downtown…
April 15th was Tax Day, but it was also Jackie Robinson Day. In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager and President Branch Rickey hired Robinson to be the first black major league player, but his was not a DEI hire. Rickey…
Where to begin? Where would modern American conservatism be without William F. Buckley Jr.? Born on Nov. 24, 1925, the precocious young man gained national attention by attacking his alma mater in his first book, God and Man at Yale….
In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. John 16: 33 A thousand Easters ago, the world was in darkness. The Roman power which sustained civilization for a millennium had fallen to corruption,…
As Women’s History Month winds down it’s worth noting that many women, contrary to the prevailing narrative of the women’s movement, reject the obsession with group identity and victim status, extolling the evenhanded treatment of others without regard to race,…
“Who is James K. Polk?” his opponents in the 1844 presidential election mockingly asked. Two centuries later, the question is asked again more quizzically. For one thing, James K. Polk proved a president can be both a big-picture visionary and…
Last Friday I saw something on television I’d seen many times before, but with a major twist. A giant sleek white rocket ship blasted off toward space bearing a crew of four. Only instead of something out of the science-fiction…
After the failure of British General Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army Group in September 1944 to capture key bridges at the Rhine River in Operation Market Garden — a single thrust airborne and infantry assault designed to pave the way to…
