January 26, 2026

We Are Crossing A Line I Have Seen Us Cross Before--60 Years Ago--Over the War In Vietnam

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It took hundreds of thousands of lives. Unrelenting domestic protests, first led by students and then by people everywhere. But finally it b...
January 24, 2026

Tolstoy on Lincoln and the Greatness of His Character

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"Now why was Lincoln so great that he overshadows all other national heroes. He was not a great general like Napoleon or Washington; he...
January 13, 2026

When Will We Stop The Erosion of Our Democracy

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When will we stop this cancer eating away at our national institutions and at the moral order by which we choose to live? What we are...
December 27, 2025

It's All About Character

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From the moment in 2016 when I first learned that Donald Trump was a candidate running for president, I called out his lack of CHARACTER. H...
December 15, 2025

Character First--Always

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John Adams writing in 1765, more than a decade before Philadelpiam, 1776: "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge amon...
November 25, 2025

Truly Listening to and Understanding one Another--Including those Closest to Us

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I am now 87 years of age. I was married to my dear late wife Francie for almost 58 years. We had a wonderful friendship and a wonderful marr...

A Churchilian Moment--The Imperative of Standing Up for Ukraine--Unambiguousy

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We (the West) must stand up unambiguously for the integrity of Ukraine. The recently tabled 28 point piece plan was a shamefully constructed...