What Keeps Me Writing

I’m sure I must have set some kind of a record for mileage gotten out of a one- week-long love affair. Four and a half…

The High Cost of Democracy

How much should an individual spend to make use of their right to vote? Churchill, not known for his attachment to democracy when it concerned the

“inferior” races like Africans, Indians or Welsh, nevertheless famously said: Democracy is the worst…

Two Tragic Deaths — Three Memorable Speeches

The year was only three months and four short days old,
Yet so much changing history had already been writ;
When shots thundered out near the Memphis Old Lorraine,
The hopes of a desperate nation fell so hard as he was hit.