[August 11, 2023] Convicted child predator Jack Reynolds, who spent more than 12 years in prison for molesting children in the 1980s, agreed to share his techniques as a predator (link to article and video here). They asked him what sort of characteristics he looked for in a child before targeting them. He said more important than the… Read More »
[August 10, 2023] As early as I can remember, at least since I was a very young child, I wanted to be a Firefighter, and it was my life’s goal, yet I was young and terribly inexperienced and naïve. Like any kid with potential, I could be anything, but I knew I did not want to work with… Read More »
[August 9, 2023] The practice of infanticide reared its ugly head in my hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Liberty where the Declaration of Independence was signed and declared, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are… Read More »
[August 8, 2023] As a young boy, I remember for the first time seeing black and white television images of a United States soldier driving a front-end loader across the cold, hard ground and stopping at a pile of what looked like mannequins. He gently positioned the machine into the pile, lifted what appeared to be nothing more… Read More »
[August 7, 2023] I read this story years ago and saved it on my computer desktop. Somehow the article got shuffled around and lost in my many files. Happily, I found it. I think you will agree the story about a man and his dog will touch your heart. The author of this spiritual story is unknown. Please… Read More »
[August 6, 2023] I’ll make a few comments about David Garrow’s recent book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017), as pointed out by Scott Johnson in PowerLineBlog (link here). Garrow’s biography is the best-researched, most comprehensive study of past President Barack Obama and covers more than a thousand pages of text. What I find most interesting… Read More »
[August 5, 2023] In the summer of 1966, just before High School, I helped a local potato farmer with his crops. I don’t remember if I ever had a dirtier job, yet I both enjoyed and hated working the fields because it was a cross between picking cotton and cleaning pigpens; it was smelly, sweltering, filthy, humid, and… Read More »
[August 4, 2023] U.S. Army General George S. Patton is known as one of America’s greatest leaders. Fortunately, he led much of the WW2 European Theatre effort against the Nazi military machine. What I learned most from reading his speeches and anecdotes from his Soldiers was that the way to be the greatest person you can be is… Read More »
[August 3, 2023] Dare to be different. “Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers.” – Psalm 1:1, NLT The only thing that’s holding some people back is who they’re spending time with. You can’t be passive when it comes to people… Read More »
[August 2, 2023] I grew up in Louisiana, just across the river from Mississippi and while both competed for the lowest position in America for education, social services, income, and a variety of measures of quality of life. Today, Mississippi is back in the news for hiring Britain’s leading advocate for Brexit, Mr. Douglas Carswell, now the Mississippi… Read More »