July 4th done right: Family, friends, patriotism, and faith
We celebrated Independence Day the right way, with neighbors who are the essence of America’s strength.
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
We celebrated Independence Day the right way, with neighbors who are the essence of America’s strength.
Continue readingA look at some of the history and holidays on December 8 Holidays & Observances on December 8 The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is held on this day to celebrate the belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary — i.e., that from the moment of her birth,
Continue readingMy mother’s heading to the hospital again today. She’s not aging gracefully, in large part because of the damage done to her body and soul during WWII. I thought that this would be a good day for me to reprint what I once wrote about her war (originally part of
Continue readingSeventy years ago today, America’s self-imposed isolationism, to which it had managed to cling for twenty years, ended when the Japanese launched their savage surprise attack against Pearl Harbor. All told, 2,402 people died. It was, until 9/11, the deadliest attack on American soil. A mere six months later, the
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