In 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his “I Had a Dream” speech. At the time, racist barriers substantially impacted the life chances of blacks, the parents and grandparents of today’s black youths. Structural racism in American society was clearly evidenced…
Why do we celebrate a holiday honoring a man who was arrested and jailed twenty-nine times, and was ultimately assassinated? What lessons can we learn from this man, Martin Luther King, Jr. and from American institutions that seem to have…
I was very naïve when I left the military. I’d spent years concentrating on “leadership,” daydreaming about how I would perform under threat of gunfire and IEDs, scanning the daily news from Iraq, reading Medal of Honor citations, devouring memoirs…
I’ll be home for Christmas, you can plan on me, please have snow, and mistletoe, and presents by the tree, Christmas Eve will find me, where the love light gleams, I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams….
On this date, at 7:55 a.m., Dec. 7, 1941, Imperial Japan launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Their goal was to keep the U.S. military from supporting American possessions like the Philippines and Guam or British outposts like…
Just when Ronald Reagan seems to have survived a Nationalist Right charge that his philosophy was a kind of zombie Libertarianism, here comes Henry Olsen promoting his 2017 The Working Class Republican book theme saying that Reagan was a Franklin D….
A lot of men who have seen combat refuse to talk about it. Which is too bad for both them and for us. PTSD is a very real problem (I have been in combat with at least two people I…
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1296 is in a blue-collar area of suburban Minneapolis. With a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter permanently touching down by its doors and an M1 57mm anti-tank gun ensuring members of the public park correctly,…
Today, we celebrate the great legacy of Christopher Columbus. With a deep and abiding faith in God and against seemingly insurmountable odds, Columbus led a voyage of three ships across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered America. The result of his…
