Plenty of fed gov’t problems, but Common Core not one
As a conservative Republican, there are many complaints I have against President Obama's leadership and our expanding federal government.
View ArticleThe search for Mabila: The context
This past Wednesday, at the invitation of Bill Wade, an old friend who moved recently to Franklin, I was at the Legends Golf Clubhouse speaking to 70-some members of the Franklin Rotary Club.
View ArticleThe search for Mavila: Tuscaloosa
Back in 1999 when I was riding my horse into the town of Childersburg in northeastern Alabama, I passed a strange sight.
View ArticleThe search for Mavila: Battle
Of the many Native American chiefs encountered by the conquistadors in the four-year-long odyssey that was the De Soto expedition, the two most memorable were the Lady of Cofitachequi about whom I...
View ArticleThe search for Mavila: The seekers
It has been fun over the past weeks writing about Mavila — or Mabila as it is sometimes spelled.
View ArticleHypocrisy in the continuing Iraqi crisis
It is a fairly consistent feature of human nature that when a powerful public official must confront the ugly truth of a mistake or a deceit, he constructs the most elaborate and self-serving...
View ArticleKilpatrick’s saber charge at Lovejoy’s Station
A hundred years ago this month, the first battles of the Great War (World War I) were being fought in Europe.
View ArticleJust how democratic are we?
A recent Global Democracy Ranking suggests that the United States has slipped down a rung on the ladder gauging the democratic impulses of 165 nations.
View ArticleA tale of two tales: truth and moral ambiguity
Last night I saw the Clint Eastwood blockbuster American Sniper. What gives the film credibility is that it is based on the life of a real American who, in the aftermath of his death at the hands of...
View ArticleThe Confederate flag: Heritage or hate?
In the aftermath of the church killings in South Carolina, I have been asked for my take on the controversy over the Confederate flag.
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