Leadership – The Civil War Can Provide An Example For Obama To Follow
I stayed home over the weekend recovering from dental surgery, and it gave me time to view a new documentary that I had recently purchased. The extensive DVD set of the American Civil War was a good refresher on a subject of great interest to me. After all, I have visited many of the [...]
A Christmas Story
The Christmas season seems to bring out the best us. With the exception of Black Friday and its preceding hours, a time that spawns self centered mobs intent on pushing and punching toward their goal of acquiring the latest Barbie, smart phone, or designer underwear, Christmas tends to be the time we are the most [...]
Rosetta Stone for Political Speak
How can you tell a politician is lying? His lips are moving. That old joke has been around possibly since the first troglodytes gathered around a fire to plot how best to hunt down dinner. It has survived largely because it is true. Whether it is an outright lie or what we [...]
J.W., Where Are You When We Need You, Pal? – Part 2
When I so rudely left you hanging last week, Lawyer Finis Bates had traveled to Enid, Oklahoma and identified the mummified remains of David George as those of the man he had known as John St. Helen. Under both names, the man had claimed to be John Wilkes Booth. Bates acquired the mummy from [...]
J.W., Where Are You When We Need You, Pal? – Part 1
One of the most reviled villains our nation has ever produced is John Wilkes Booth. His assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is a tragic part of our national story that has been told and retold for almost 150 years, and the actor’s image is forever cast as that of a monster who caused great [...]
