I was born 169 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. I remember my first 4th of July celebration when I was 6, when my parents took me to our town’s annual celebration at the…
Category: Education
How Things Work For People who Don’t Read, or Won’t Read
America has come to a crossroads and the outcome all depends on whether the majority, who for all those years didn’t read, and now won’t except in 240-character couplets, clean up their acts. I’ve told the story before about an…
Governments of Men, How Things Work in Nature
“Writing for people who don’t read”: For the lifelong student historian-philosopher, as well as Christian apologist, this is an interesting subject for it is about really only a few hard and fast rules, mostly those enforced by Nature, about which,…
One Ring to Rule Them All: The Government as the Principal Shareholder in the Marketplace
I’ve already noted in Part First that the demon seed of Royalism burns in all governments, going back to the pharaohs. To control others. That’s the natural (law) inclination of all governments. Knowing this simple, easy, common sense truth is…
Two Old Boomers Walked Into An Appalachian Saloon…
… one a blind writer and the other a self-made historian. They saddled up on a couple of three-legged bar stools, threw back a few too many rounds of PBR, and lamented the state of affairs in America these days.…