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: History
Is this really a Pandemic?
What’s being sold is that “Pandemics” are bad, bad, bad. I don’t want to get too lawyerly, but a pandemic is defined as an “infectious disease that has crossed national boundaries”, not really mentioning whether it is particularly severe, or…
When the Nobility turns Criminal
Just before the Crusades around 1100 AD, the notion of noble character, noble thought and noble deeds arose among the noble classes of Europe. In fact, it’s how they got their name, the Nobility, both men and women, and it…
Science vs Natural Law and the Thin Red Line
Whether they are aware or unaware of how the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament–Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) was put together, as an oral tradition passed by generations of Levites with memory skills of inestimable…