Today I am a proud Catholic, but I grew up for the first 5 years of my life being raised in the Quaker home of my grandparents in Philadelphia. My Mom was a nurse assigned to the Navy and my father was deployed to Korea and later Japan during the Korean War. My grandmother had […]
“The pre-eminent issue for our country at this time is healing and coming together.” So said the Catholic Bishop of San Diego Robert McElroy. President Biden expressed similar views in his Inaugural Address when a talked about the need for unity. I couldn’t disagree more. Without an agreement regarding values and the philosophical and theological […]
Reprinted with permission of the Idaho Freedom Foundation I feel like I have been under house arrest for the past 10 months, and for what? The fact is (and this isn’t just John Livingston’s opinion) we are not in a pandemic. Who else agrees with me? Why, the state of Idaho does. In the state’s Emergency […]
From 1978-1980 I was stationed at Camp Lejeune North Carolina with the Marines. My primary billet was with the Fleet Service Support Unit that supported a Marine Recon Battalion. I had already spent 7 years in the Navy and was very well acquainted with Naval Traditions and etiquette. Most of the time at Lejeune I […]
The article below my article was the headline in today’s Idaho Statesman. It was taken down at 12:00pm. Can you guess why? Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources that have alternative uses. Today in our country we are seeing the various forms of resource allocation being played out as the lines […]
One of the mentors in my life who 20 years after his death still has a great influence on my thinking was my organic and biochemistry professor Dr. Howard Curry. After my 1st course in organic chemistry, I was 1/600th of a point away from an A-. He gave me a B+. I went to […]
I have spent a lot of time this past week thinking about polls. Reputable pollsters always report their methods and techniques and disclose any problems that they see in their own methodologies. But unlike the results that we see in scientific and engineering journals, our ability to authenticate the results of the poll and redo […]
Why is President Trump so hated? Is it his “toxic masculinity” or obstreperous contentious behavior? Those are part of it but underlying all the hate from the DC establishment is the fact that he did not need them. He did not need their money or their connections. As an independent agent indebted to only the […]
To the surprise of those on the left, even as President Trump is being impeached for the second time, he very much can control the future of his movement and the legacy of his Presidency. He along with all of us should take a deep breath and look for opportunity where for the last 8 […]
The common bond that has held Americans together of all races and Nationalities since the landing of the Mayflower has been our common faith in God. The rules that govern our civil and personal relationships and interactions are grounded in concepts of the NATURAL LAW whose principles date back to the Bible through Calvary, Augustine, […]
In his famous speech in 1862 at Philadelphia’s National Hall, Frederick Douglas stated, “that nations, not less individuals, are subjects to the moral government of the universe and that. Persistent transgressions of the laws of this Devine (United States) government will certainly bring national sorrow, shame, suffering and death.” C. S. Lewis showed in THE […]
A “PINCER MANEUVER” in battle occurs when two forces meet each other and one deploys the strength of force toward both flanks of the enemy, hoping to envelop and surround the enemy cutting off supply and logistical support. It can be dangerous if the enemy being enveloped can rapidly break through the middle of the […]