UCLA economist Donald Shoup has become a cult figure in the worlds of City Planning and Urban Development. His 2005 book THE HIGH COST OF FREE PARKING has been the center of a movement that has become almost religious like with sycophants advocating for less parking in congested urban areas and a blind devotion to […]
St. Augustine High School is a Catholic, private all boys school run by the Josephite Priests and Brothers in New Orleans Louisiana. It began operations in 1951 and includes grades 8 through 12. From its inception the school was designed to educate young men from Black Catholic families in New Orleans. It is one of […]
Abraham Lincoln attended formal school it has been estimated, for about four months. He was a self-educated man. From the time his stepmother taught him to read when he was a young child, he read everything he could get his hands on. Plato, Aristotle, The Stoics, Shakespeare but most of all The Bible. Lincoln’s moral […]
I want to be very clear that when I talk of a New Great Awakening that must happen in our country I am specifically talking of a spiritual awaking. But I also want to promote the idea that is anything but new, that patriotic Americans need to stand up for Patriotic business, and cities and […]
I want to lighten the mood from the past few weeks and write about a great victory and a great example for everyone. Anyone who reads my articles knows that I love sports. I played sports in high school and college, and I love all sports, but my three favorites are football, lacrosse, and wrestling. […]
At the risk of sounding provincial or even parochial I would like to share my feelings about what is going on in Garden City and specifically the Plantation neighborhood. We are trying to fight off the development of our golf course. My wife and I like 256 other homeowners are very concerned as are neighbors […]
The adults who oversee many of our institutions that historically have held the keys to the kingdom of the promise of hope and advancement in our society, have proceeded in a world and with hearts that are void of virtue. The predicate for all actions in a civil and ordered world must be a foundation […]
Does it seem to anybody else that we are being ruled by a group of people who no matter how one measures their “virtue” they are weak and not very accomplished in their own right? Back in the second century BCE the Greek military hero and Roman historian Polybius, wrote about. The “Kyklos”—cycle of governance. […]
I haven’t seen so many Democrats this mad (and scared) since the Republicans freed the slaves. I haven’t seen so many people hate a President like the various progressive and RINO factions in our country today hate Donald Trump, since the Democrats, Peace Democrats, and Copperheads expressed their hate for Abraham Lincoln from 1858 until […]
I was involved in a litigation conference several days ago. My entire adult professional life was in the world of operating rooms and intensive care units. Sitting in a room with attorneys and the various parties involved in litigation is something that is part of their everyday lives, but the process is almost surreal from […]
Today I am writing on Palm Sunday. For followers of Jesus the events from Jesus triumphant entry on a Donkey into Jerusalem until his ascension into Heaven forty days after his resurrection are the essence of our Christian faith. If there was no resurrection, the whole story was a hoax. If there was not an […]
Christians and those who follow traditional Hebrew theology understand very basic principles. God made us. God made us in His image. We cannot change the form or spirit in which He made us. To think otherwise would be to put ourselves above God and put us at odds with His Will. I spent the last […]