[October 6, 2025] Standing alone in the Mississippi Delta are several small towns steeped in poverty. One of them is Alligator, Mississippi. Joe & Nic’s Road Trip is a YouTube channel specializing in road trips, mainly visiting the downtowns and neighborhoods of rural America. They capture the decline of these small towns, showing the visual decay and the… Read More »
[October 5, 2025] Several lessons learned came from our first few days in the Iraq War. We had too many meetings with too many people to get things done efficiently or effectively. And, yet there was a need for additional planning to ensure success when we occupied an expanded combat footprint. At the same time, we learned about… Read More »
[October 4, 2025] Can money and possessions truly make you happy? Yes. Keep in mind that money and opportunity are similar, and if you’re wise, having more opportunity can be even better. However, once you have enough money to keep bill collectors at bay, more money doesn’t seem to improve your well-being. Most of us believe that if… Read More »
[October 3, 2025] Yesterday, a Muslim attacked people at a local synagogue in Manchester, England. The picture is a bit blurry, but it looks like someone with an explosive belt, a knife, and appears to be “Middle Eastern.” The U.K. Daily Mail references the photo in the header of this article. This is how Sky News reported on… Read More »
[October 2, 2025] As a product myself of the Louisiana educational system in the 1950s and 60s, I can attest to the abysmal rates of reading and arithmetic achievement. Mississippi and Louisiana were competitors in the race to the bottom in national education. However, things have turned around, and we have what is known as the Mississippi Reading… Read More »
[October 1, 2025] The journey to fulfillment in life is found through suffering. Taking on all the responsibility you can means confronting everything that needs to be faced. Doing so leads to the gradual improvement of your surroundings. If we accept this as an unavoidable truth, then, facing the world and doing so nobly, there is no upper… Read More »
[September 30, 2025] I’ve had plenty of bad leaders in my 40 years in the Army, and one thing I’ve learned is that sometimes it’s beneficial to work for a bad leader. What that means is that experiencing poor leadership can help us understand what to avoid in the future. That’s how we learn and improve. For all… Read More »
[September 29, 2025] This article is not about the Assyrian Empire, but it’s worth noting that at one time, this empire was the most powerful in the known world. Historians continue to study this complex empire from its early days in ancient Mesopotamia, lasting nearly 3,000 years, with Assyrians still living today as a recognizable ethnic group.… Read More »
[September 28, 2025] One doesn’t need to be a keen observer to see that political leftists have turned to violence in advance of their causes. Some say the violence has become an epidemic. The real question is why? Mark Steyn, in his article “When the ‘Nice People’ Want to Kill You,” writes: “All that can be said for… Read More »
[September 27, 2025] I was sitting in the veterinarian’s waiting room to have my dog, Bella, have a blood draw. Amazingly, the room is crowded and there are another four Yellow Labs there, looking friendly. I’ve been thinking recently about lessons learned from the twentieth century, which should be obvious, but they are not. Few are as visible… Read More »