For the most part I don’t think our underlying political differences are as great as they appear; rather I suspect they’re more a consequence of where we get our information. If equality and fairness are the two words that best describe liberal orthodoxy, then freedom...

Memorial Day is not a holiday in the usual celebratory sense of the word.  Rather, it is a commemoration of selfless sacrifice by many patriots and comrades-in-arms, who remain “forever young” in the memory of those of us who had the privilege of serving alongside of...

So you think your command of the English language is pretty good, well test yourself and see how many of these common words you probably didn't know you were pronouncing incorrectly. Acai – This is a species of palm tree from the Amazon rain forest, best known for its...

With the Major League Baseball season upon us, I thought the timing appropriate to relate a story about an event that occurred a number of years ago at the American Baseball Coaches Association’s annual convention in Nashville Tennessee. The keynote speaker that...

James Bovard once wrote, “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.”  While that statement may appear droll, it’s precisely the reason the United States is a Constitutional republic and not a pure democracy, and why...

President Bill Clinton once told a joint session of Congress, “Americans…are rightly disturbed by the large number of illegal aliens entering our country.  It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit that type of abuse of our...

I realize it’s the thought the counts, but let’s face it, sometimes it hard to fake a smile when you know that package under the tree contains a reindeer tie or a snow globe of Swiss village.  So I thought I’d offer a Christmas gift the entire family can enjoy—10...

It was mid-December 1969, and four Marine helicopter crews waited in the med-evac shack next to the runway at Marble Mountain Air Facility.  It was about 2:00 AM on a cold, rainy night when the call came from DaNang DASC that a Marine force-recon patrol had been...

The other night while surfing the movie channels I came across that 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz with its, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” and “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto.” But the line from the movie I remember most occurred when Dorothy and...

So you’re out for your morning jog; it’s mid January and the temperature hovers near zero when you notice a large white canine sitting in front of a home set back about 30 yards from the street.  Suddenly the dog takes an interest and begins running towards you.  You...