Growing up delivering papers in a small New York town has advantages. You get to know people, their moods, temperaments, family members, and how they might respond when the newspaper arrives late or, not at all. When you grow up delivering papers in the snow, you...
Americans on the home front are exhausted from a marathon of foreign fallout. As the Taliban cancels this semester’s gender studies curriculum at the American University in Kabul, China eyes prospective control of the Bagram airbase. Instances like these embody a long...
Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn’t much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was...
No President, standing alone, can lay claim to having made America great. George Washington, our first President and the undisputed Father of America, is the closest person who could remotely lay claim to having made America great. Let’s tell the truth. America,...
A window is open and one can hear the casual conversation taking place inside. You lean in, listening carefully, hanging on every word. The people are speaking and you want to understand what they are saying, what they mean by what they say. They are speaking freely,...
War is a hot political topic. For me, growing up in America has always involved the subject of war. For decades I have listened to rants about the war on poverty, the war on crime, the war on the family, and even the cold war. Throughout my 16 years of education, my...
