For as long as I can remember, communication had built-in closure.  A verbal acknowledgment.  A letter answered.  A phone call returned.   And every face-to-face comment earned, at minimum, a nod.  There was an endpoint—a signal that the message had been received and...

Walk through any airport today and you’ll see pajama bottoms, sweatpants, and slippers.  And it’s not just younger travelers.  It seems as if comfort has become the default uniform of public life in America That’s not to suggest we return to the 1940s and ’50s, when...

To understand what we may be facing in the Middle East today, it helps to revisit a moment when fanaticism and power collided in 1945. By mid-1945, the United States was preparing for a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands.  Japan was already reeling—its...

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...