[August 7, 2026] Welcome the unknown. The unknown is and will always be both a teacher and a source of growth. Confront life’s challenges and uncertainties voluntarily rather than clinging to rigid security. That is the road to being a better person, living your life to its fullest, and getting the most out of your life and those… Read More »
[August 6, 2026] A great leader I knew, many years ago, told me that it is not a leader’s job to motivate people. At the time I thought that he was crazy. His comment ran counter to everything I’d been taught in the military. And more than just being taught, we were being evaluated on how motivated our… Read More »
[August 5, 2026] I didn’t give him much notice until he chased me home one day. My Mom had given me the proper warning, “watch out for that mangy dog.” Rabies was real, although looking back, I don’t think he had the disease. I loved dogs then, and I love them more today, perhaps because I’m less busy,… Read More »
[August 4, 2026] It was a bad day. I’d been caught chewing gum by our Drill Sergeant while I was in Advanced Individual Training, U.S. Army at Fort Gordon, GA, sometime in late 1974. My punishment, euphemistically called “reinforcement training” was cleaning the urinals in the men’s barracks … with a toothbrush. I was a Private (E-1), the… Read More »
[August 3, 2026] A recent question being asked that strikes hard at American values is whether NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani should attend the city’s upcoming 9/11 ceremony. The answer is easy. Yes, he should attend, and perhaps not for the more obvious reasons. Relatives of 9/11 victims are rightly “pissed” that he wants to attend, and yet he… Read More »
[August 2, 2026] I found Prof. Jordan Peterson’s advice to be insightful in a snippet of a lecture he gave called “You Betrayed the Grandfather You Were Going to Be.” In his video, he begins with discussing the pattern of attitudes toward women and sex. One of these patterns is characterized by preference for so-called short-term mating opportunities;… Read More »
[August 1, 2026] The memoir of John Lewis Barkley was first published in 1930 as No Hard Feelings! (the title chosen by the publisher from an anecdote in the book). Barkley received the Medal of Honor for heroism during World War I, but we know little of him; and that is unfortunate for this hero. In his book,… Read More »
[July 31, 2026] Inevitably, I get asked this question whenever I go to High Schools to talk about what it is to be a Veteran. Those students pushed me to provide a better answer than “when you turn 18.” So, when do you become an adult?” I’m a student of Prof. Jordan Peterson’s ideas, and he often discusses… Read More »
[July 30, 2026] Is Dr. Anthony Fauci a failed leader? Yes! The sheer weight of the raw evidence of our institutions’ failure in the COVID pandemic is clear, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s fingerprints are all over them. What we all saw during the COVID-19 lockdowns, including aggressive government tactics, the disruption and warping of our institutions, the demonization… Read More »
[July 29, 2026] By 2022, the world was witnessing a decline in deaths caused by the COVID pandemic. What we were coming to realize, much too slowly and to the horror of medical policymakers, was that the SARS virus was deadly but nowhere near what we were being told by “experts.” That’s when my 4-year-old grandson visited my… Read More »