The North Wind and the Sun were arguing about which of them was stronger. As they debated, a traveler came along wearing a cloak. They agreed that whoever could make the traveler remove his cloak would be considered stronger. The North Wind went first. He blew...
Life Lessons
The Fire Hat
Sometimes I go back and review old commentaries from my Vail Daily years – and today I thought I would raid my archives and look for a story with a genuine message. I grew up during the 50’s in a middle-class neighborhood of row houses on the west side of Chicago;...
Winners & Losers
Today is Election Day and instead of speculating about the outcome, I thought to share some thoughts about outcomes of even greater import – life and how we live it. A Winner makes commitments—A loser makes promises. When a winner makes a mistake he says, “I was...
Who’s bullying who?
One of the most common complaints in the transgender debate is that trans-people are the subject of much bullying and harassment. I haven’t seen statistics on the matter, but I suspect there is an element of truth to that statement, but at the same time, I also...
Enjoying the Drama
Every Saturday during the school year, and 6 days-a-week during the summer, from the 8th grade through my sophomore year in college, I worked for my dad and uncle in their mid-size grocery store on the west side of Chicago. Working in a family business has its plusses...
We should learn from history, not erase it
You may have read that the statue of Robert E. Lee that stood in Charlottesville Virginia’s town square for nearly a century has been melted down and will be remade into a new piece of public art. The statue, a source of controversy in the wake of the 2017...
The paper of record – really!
Perhaps I’m beating a dead horse, but whenever I hear a liberal quote the NY Times I cringe, because to say it simply, the NY Times is not an honest purveyor of the news. Yet the Times has long been considered the ‘newspaper of record’ in the United States and for...
Leftists & Personal Responsibility the Ultimate Oxymoron
Classical liberalism as embraced by great thinkers such as John Locke, Adam Smith & Thomas Jefferson, is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics, civil liberties under the rule of law, with special...
Pride Month
A dear friend and fraternity brother of mine has asked me where I get my ideas for my posts. I told him that most of the time a thought just pops into my head, and I write. But today's post was inspired by Dennis Prager, a voice of reason in an increasingly...
Our Changing Culture
Epistemology is the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. In essence, epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. And a great place to examine epistemological theory is to look at...