The post below harangues you for not using the subjunctive mood of the verb to be when the sentence or clause requires it. So now I may as well go off on another grammatical error that is frequently encountered and … Continue reading
A recent [2010] television production on the History Channel titled “The Real Story of Thanksgiving” made the entirely false declaration that the system of communal property first established at the Plymouth colony protected them from starvation during their first winter … Continue reading
The real story of Thanksgiving is about the Pilgrims experiment with communism, or “communalism” as it would have been called at the time, its utter failure and replacement with capitalism, and the prosperity that followed. From Kayleigh McEnany: We were … Continue reading
Modern reenactment by the National Park Service of the joining of the intercontinental transcontinental railroad at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory Summit North of Utah’s Great Salt Lake: The actual photo by Andrew J. Russell taken at … Continue reading
Today is Rosh Hashanna, the Jewish New Year, 1 Tishrei 5772. It is the first of the ”High Holidays” (“Days of Awe”), celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur. According to Jewish tradition God inscribes each person’s fate for the coming year into a … Continue reading
Two World War II airmen, one White the other Black, meet 50 years later and discover astounding connections between them.
This morning I was reading an internet discussion about a woman whose boyfriend died of cancer. She has saved all of the email and text messages they exchanged over a period of years, and she reads selected ones from time … Continue reading
The most egregious lies must be quashed with the strongest truth telling. William F. Buckley, Jr. said, “Truth is a demure lady. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.” We can seek her out in … Continue reading
About to be engulfed in a gigantic dust cloud is a peaceful little ranch in Boise City, Oklahoma where the topsoil is being dried and blown away during the years of the Dust Bowl. Severe drought, poor farming techniques and … Continue reading
Below are the opening and concluding paragraphs from “In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire”, a speech delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. at Keene, New Hampshire on Memorial Day, May 30, 1884. He spoke of the meaning … Continue reading