AN UNACCEPTABLE An America assaulted is horrified by the unacceptable stain upon our democracy and desecration of our Capitol on January 6, 2021. Moreover, the record 74-million patriotic Americans who voted two months earlier for an unorthodox incumbent share this national epiphany. However, on this solemn Christian feast day, an …
AMERICAN CHRISTMAS 1776 was not simply the year that the members of the Continental Congress risked their lives and fortunes to declare an independent America. However, as we honor their risk of high treason taken on July 4, let us also remember December 25, 1776, when Gen. George Washington changed …
MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER An American renewal is essential, with citizens of all persuasions moving forward together into 2021 and beyond. Moreover, America’s history, character, and global leadership demand it. Firstly, this means that Democrats and Republicans, progressives and conservatives, women and men of all races, creeds, and regions, unearth and …
THE PIVOTAL 2020 ELECTION The contentious American election of 2020 is a consequential American crossroads. Trump v. Biden may have appeared to be a referendum on a controversial incumbent and influenced by a pandemic. However, there is significantly more about our political system, economic way of life, character, and cultural …
THEN AND NOW America First was a provocative movement in 1940 and it remains controversial eighty years later. America First as advocated in 1940 was incompatible with genuine American exceptionalism. Likewise, the 2020 version of America First is often confused with the original movement. But it is different. Therefore, let …
NATION OVER PARTY STATESMANSHIP Unlike Wendell Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, many modern politicians and media appear institutionally incapable of objective reasoning. However, Willkie’s story proves that there was a time when bipartisan statesmanship was possible in Washington. Furthermore, we misunderstand the isolationist opposition to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s …
AMERICA GOES NUCLEAR At 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear weapon, an atomic device code named Trinity, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about thirty-five miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on the Army Air Forces’ Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery …