In today’s post I’m going to pick up where I left off yesterday to bring context as to how we got to this point with the Iranian regime. Controversy is always attendant to military engagement and the current war with Iran is no exception.  However, there is a pattern...

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy informed the nation and the world he had imposed a naval “quarantine” around Cuba, signaling the United States would not tolerate the Soviet Union’s “offensive military buildup” in the Western...

There has been a lot of accusations from democrats in Congress whether the Iranian regime actually posed an “imminent threat” to the United States.  So, I thought we might examine the word imminent from the dictionary’s perspective versus what it means in the context...

Yesterday republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave, i.e.,  ‘kicked out’ of a restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, because employees said they felt uncomfortable having her in the restaurant.  One patron even shouted at her while flipping her...

Last week I wrote that Donald Trump didn’t start the current conflict in the Middle East.  He’s just the first American president who believed we could not kick the can down road any longer without posing grave risks to the United States and the world.  I also wrote...

Today I want to share a few thoughts about the current hostilities in the Middle East... A)The United States has been involved in more than 150-armed conflicts since our nation’s founding.  However, the United States Congress has only declared war in five (5) of those...

One of the things I miss most about writing commentary for a public newspaper is reading the letters to the editor in response to one of my political opinion pieces.  Unfortunately, this website doesn’t allow for responses, but today I’m going ask a few questions in...

The teacher offered her class a simple story.  "A ship is sinking.  A husband and wife make it to a lifeboat, but there’s only one seat left.  The husband jumps in and the wife stays behind in the freezing water.  Just before the ocean takes her under, she shouts her...

When thinking about what to write about today, I happened upon an old quote from the world of baseball.  Some quotes don’t just age badly; some are so ignorant they are hard to believe—not because the future surprised someone, but because the speaker never understood...

The Encyclopedia Britannica defines a trophic cascade as an ecological phenomenon in which changes at the top of a food chain ripple downward, reshaping an entire ecosystem in ways that are often unintended and initially unseen. Put plainly: changes made at the top...