I’ve been wondering recently …
What do parents tell their children these days about the lessons we all thought were embedded in our culture as we grew?
Last week, Mitch Landrieu, the Mayor of New Orleans, gave a speech in his city. It was specifically on the rightness and necessity of the city’s decision to remove four post-Civil War statues commemorating Confederate leaders. But it was much more than that — it was the…
I asserted in my prior posting that Justice for All is an essential element, and perhaps the core of, The American Way. I’ll acknowledge the possibility of debate, but I doubt anyone can show me or the readers that the…
I’ve been thinking lately about D’Artagnan, or, more precisely, about the motto by which he and his fellow Musketeers lived — “One for all, and all for one”. Not sure what brought it to mind; the French elections…
So … should we blame it all on Harry Reid? Oh, wait a minute — let me catch up to myself.
This time, I want to pay attention to the problematic third part of the Merriam-Webster definition of Truth I mentioned in pt 1 — “a judgment, proposition, or idea…
This would seem to be the simplest of the three tenets laid out in Superman’s mantra. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary says, in part, “(1) the state of being the case, (2) the body of real things, events, and facts;” and a bit later, “the property…
This is not about our current White House occupant. Rather, it’s an attempt to trace the differences between the ideals on which generations of…