The Importance of Presence

I hope you will read the following editorial piece in its entirety. And then read my added comments that follow. WILLIAM BENNETT: What Charlie Kirk’s murder tells us about the American mind. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” William Butler Yeats wrote those words about Europe after theContinue reading “The Importance of Presence”

Why Did He Have To Die?

A few days ago, one of my very best friends posed a question to me that he had been asked to answer. Why didn’t the Lord protect him [Charlie Kirk] from being shot? I am not sure exactly why he passed that question along to me. I didn’t ask him. But I imagine it wasContinue reading “Why Did He Have To Die?”

Be Careful Who You Choose

In all my 71 years on this planet, I have never seen a more bizarre political climate. We have heard about the Left and the Right, Conservatives and Liberals, Democrats and Republicans for decades. Now the popular terms are Progressives, Constitutionalist, even Fascist, It’s democracy verses republic, socialism verses capitalism, electoral college verses simple majority.Continue reading “Be Careful Who You Choose”