Afghanistan is made up of all sorts of tribal peoples, which, trust me, Taliban will be unable to subdue. All they have been able to do is move the clock back to about 1979 when the USSR invaded just to…
Category: History
Natural Law, Afghanistan and Vietnam, Have We Learned Anything?
I had a new chapter in my How Things Work in Natural Law series already outlined when History suddenly repeated itself over the past few days, proving the viability of those laws, which I’ll restate shortly. There’s a lesson here…
To Pause and Reflect, The Fourth of July
As I’ve noted before I was born and raised in a company town. Coal mining. And every July 4th the mines shut down and the town gathered at our school football stadium, where half the field was lined with stands…
Manifest Destiny
You’ve no doubt heard the term “Manifest Destiny”, as referring to the zeitgeist of our Nation as it expanded Westward, more specifically as Americans lined up wagon train after wagon train to emigrate to Oregon and California in the 1840s…
Comparative Vigilantism, Small Ball vs Big Ball
Continuing a series aimed at understanding the operative elements of both good and bad vigilantism, when private citizens undertake to do the work of law and law enforcement when the governments under which they live…local, regional or national…either refuse or…