We have previously commented on the tragedy of the California fires. Prayers and calls for God’s many graces and mercies on the families and homeowners continue. Tragedies and natural disasters have been part of the human experience since the beginning of time. We can’t stop these events. We can mitigate and prepare to minimize the […]
Our hearts and prayers go out to the citizens of LA County. They also go out daily to everyday people, who through actions or no actions on their part, find themselves and their loved ones separated temporarily from each other. Famine, destruction, petulance and death have forever been part of the human condition dating back […]
I have been a big admirer of Peggy Noonan’s since the time she was writing speeches for Ronald Reagan. We share a common Christian-Catholic faith that serves as a common ground for trying to understand each other’s philosophies of life and politics—which many times differ from each other. In my opinion she has the heart […]
In 1862 during the height of our Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed into The US Code several pieces of legislation that impacted the culture and the tribalism that is currently today very much a part of the American experience and our politics. The Homestead Act(s) and the Land Grant Morrill Act that created State Universities […]
Donald Trump completed the greatest political comeback in American history when he won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote last November. I think the well-organized weaponization of our legal system against him, the centralized control of the media from the highest levels of government—let’s just say collusion, and the demonization and characterization […]
Before the State of The State Address next week, I would like to offer my thanks to Governor Brad Little for placing Alex Adams as the new head of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. When I look up the definition of LEVITHEAN, it sends me to the Web page of the Idaho Department […]
As many of our readers know I am a political neophyte. I didn’t really concern myself with the world of politics beyond my dining room table or outside the operating room until I retired from the practice of surgery and medicine—Socrates told us there is politics in everything we do. Over the years I have […]
From 1789 until the rise of the progressive movement under Woodrow Wilson, Congress adhered to James Madison’s view that the Federal spending power was limited to executing the Constitution’s enumerated powers. From pre-Civil War days bills appropriating aid to education, income support for citizens—except veterans, and grants supporting the poor were rejected by Federal Lawmakers. […]
The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is my favorite time of year. Growing up in Ohio and playing football in both college and high school, the traditions of the Christmas Season are very much intertwined with the sacraments and orthodoxies of high school and college football. In Idaho, this year our Boise State Football team […]
There are giants in every field of endeavor. They transcend the limits of their areas of expertise and exert their influence over others who know absolutely nothing about the intricacies of the science or the art or the insights into the natural or spiritual worlds where the great man or woman worked, experimented and innovated. […]
There is a lot of HATE being spewed in the post-election commentary by the likes of Joey Behar, Rachel Maddow, and Joy (no irony in her first name there) Reid. Conservatives and Christian conservatives have heard during early election cycles the words “deplorable” to describe “people like us”. Mr. Obama opined that we “cling to […]
Over the past several weeks my lovely wife Lynn has decided to “streamline” my library. I love my books—every one of them. I have well over a thousand books and at the end of the exercise we removed a total of seven books from the inventory. One, a book written by Douglas South Hall Freeman […]