[December 16, 2022] I have a book signing this weekend. A local store, One Nation 1776, located in Historic Smithville Village, will be hosting the event Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm. That’s five hours of signing, but I’m sure I can hang in there. My wife Nancy will be there to help and will be the show’s… Read More »
[December 15, 2022] If you are being required to do things that make you weak and ashamed … then stop, don’t do them. One of the critical messages from Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and Victor E. Frankl was that things could go terribly out of control when people don’t stop them when they’re mildly out of control. Many of… Read More »
[December 14, 2022] Finding someone in your life who can push you to your limits, someone who you can contend with and help you be a better person, is a true adventure. If you find that person, hold onto them because they will make you more than you ever thought possible. If you can also find someone you… Read More »
[December 13, 2022] Army Vet writes to us today as someone who is deeply patriotic but fears what the U.S. military has become; a shadow of its former self. His previous articles strike to the core of the failures of our military, especially the Army but all our once fine Armed Forces. Spoiler alert, it ain’t because they’re… Read More »
[December 12, 2022] Men see women as perfection for the feminine ideal. We read this in the Tom Sawyer story. Tom Sawyer is about 12 years old and still hangs out with his friends like Huck Finn. And at one point, a girl moves across the street; her name is Becky. She comes outside, and Tom Sawyer is… Read More »
[December 11, 2022] Recently, Dr. Jordan Peterson got into hot water with social media commentators throughout the West regarding a plus-sized model on the cover of Sports Illustrated writing “Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” The topic today is not about beauty but about fat people, or more precisely, obese… Read More »
[December 10, 2022] What’s happening between China and Taiwan in light of the Ukraine War? A lot of senior policy folks in the U.S. government were openly discussing that the master geopolitical plan in the East would be that Russia would go first for Ukraine, and China would go for Taiwan, more or less at the same time… Read More »
[December 9, 2022] If you desire to pursue something meaningful in your life, and you should, then you should also be afraid of taking risks associated with that difficult, meaningful pursuit. But you should be more afraid of staying where you are, especially if that makes you miserable. There is a price to pay for sitting where you… Read More »
[December 8, 2022] Remember what happens in the Pinocchio movie when Pinocchio goes to Pleasure Island; a place where impulsive pleasures can be had at a moment’s notice. What Pinocchio discovers, along with Jiminy Cricket, is that masked totalitarians run Pleasure Island, dressed all in black. They’re turning the children into braying jackasses, depriving them of their voice,… Read More »
[December 7, 2022] Can we learn anything from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on this date 81 years ago? Yes, we can, but it’s a lesson Americans never seem to take to heart. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy bombed the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was one of the most successful… Read More »