[July 19, 2023] My dad was a New York Yankees fan, and by default, so was I. To this day, I never knew why; we lived in the Deep South, where professional baseball was king, but my dad still insisted the Yankees were the team we would follow, and all three of us kids (later four) will always… Read More »
[July 18, 2023] Shortly after graduation from Drill Sergeant School at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 1978, I was promoted to Staff Sergeant in the Infantry and was assigned to a Basic Training unit. Duty was tough. The job demanded long hours, a high level of physical fitness, strict adherence to Army regulations, and extreme self-discipline. The days were… Read More »
[July 17, 2023] In a documentary titled “Death of the Luftwaffe,” DroneScapes gives us some significant insight into why the German Air Force failed during WWII. After watching the show, I thought that it might interest my readers, and the simple reason is that failure is always present, and we can learn valuable lessons from the failures… Read More »
[July 16, 2023] He was an obnoxious, arrogant, self-centered, spiteful bully with a streak of hate running through his black heart. Our family had just moved to a new town, and I was academically transferred to my new Junior High, just a few miles from where I grew up but, in actuality, an entire world away. I… Read More »
[July 15, 2023] I entered the U.S. Army in the summer of 1974 as a Private. I was about to learn the meaning of life’s most important principle, and it was not what I thought it was. Like many other recruits, I was physically out of shape when I joined and had a negative outlook on life. … Read More »
[July 14, 2023] I was sitting in church with my family in late February 1962, only a few weeks shy of my 10th birthday, with my favorite yo-yo in my front pocket. My friends and I ran outside to do the “John Glenn” trick when the sermon concluded. This yo-yo trick would be three loops around and… Read More »
[July 13, 2023] This year has been the kiss of death for woke companies pushing their transgender ideology and then suffering massive blowbacks. We all remember the first company to get destroyed, Bud Light beer. The boycott of the beer was so massive that now their name is used as an adverb, “bud lighted,” meaning to be… Read More »
[July 12, 2023] I laughed through their entire skit. The PatriotTwins, ConservativeTwins, and HodgeTwins are YouTube shows by Kevin and Keith Hodge, aka the Hodge Twins, are some of the funniest stand-up comedians I’ve seen in a long time. They are described as “vocal conservatives” (see link), and what I like most about them is they make… Read More »
[July 11, 2023] For several years, I’ve had a series on courage (links here), and it is one of the more popular and garnering many comments across the political spectrum. I’m proud to write today about a young lady who truly embodies the spirit of courage, and she is Riley Gaines, an American former competitive swimmer who competed… Read More »
[July 10, 2023] I was born in Arkansas, close to a line of small towns that ran south into Louisiana along what is now state Route 165, where all my relatives married, worked, raised their families, and died. My hometown is Mer Rouge, where I learned to be a young man. I lived in this little village, without… Read More »