Revisionists have spent the last fifty years trying hard to excise Thanksgiving from among those few remaining holidays with expressly religious origins. We are told that the Founding Fathers were atheists, agnostics, or, at best Deists. A certain elementary school I know advised its students that the first Thanksgiving was [...]
Most of us are familiar with VA disability compensation. We know it is income-tax free, is based upon service connected or service aggravated disability, and can replace on a dollar-for-dollar basis military retired pay, thus providing the retired veteran with a modest tax break. This is not about concurrent receipt [...]
Most of us are familiar with VA disability compensation. We know it is income-tax free, is based upon service connected or service aggravated disability, and can replace on a dollar-for-dollar basis military retired pay, thus providing the retired veteran with a modest tax break. This is not about concurrent receipt [...]
Chapel was mandatory at USAFA. Every Sunday morning we would actually march by squadron to chapel. Equal protection — Feh! The Protestants had it good upstairs, the Catholics not-so-grand downstairs, Jews had a still smaller area. Don’t recall an Islamic or Buddhist place of worship. Even then there were those [...]
Revisionists have spent the last fifty years trying hard to excise Thanksgiving from among those few remaining holidays with expressly religious origins. We are told that the Founding Fathers were atheists, agnostics, or, at best Deists. A certain elementary school I know advised its students that the first Thanksgiving was [...]
In 480 B.C. at Thermopylae a fabled band of a few hundred Spartans, Thespians, and Thebans under King Leonidas I of Sparta held off the Persian hoards of Xerxes I for three days, buying with their lives sufficient time for the Greeks to withdraw and consolidate their forces for the [...]
Sam Ervin was just a small-town lawyer who one day arose to be the senior senator from North Carolina and the man who chaired the Nixon Watergate investigation. Well known for his rumpled aw-shucks country mien which he used to cover a first-rate mind, he was fond of using bucolic [...]
There is the story of the young lad who was an incurable optimist. No amount of misfortune seemed ever to dim his effervescence. This was of course a mixed blessing for his parents, who, though gladdened by his sunny outlook, over time began to worry that he was headed for [...]