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On Human Nature

22 July 2011

We humans.. we are never happy, never satisfied. On the one hand, this is good, but on the other … a sad state of affairs. This past Thursday, the Mass reading was Exodus16:1-5. For those who are not religious, take pause and just read and think of this as a discourse on human nature. For [...]

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Departing Today

11 February 2011

Here at Fort Benning, GA, I am waiting on my flight to Afghanistan. It has been a long week, but the time here has been pretty good. The Army executes this process every week to send individuals to far-off lands. I didn’t know if there is any restriction on writing about the number, so I [...]

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Your Country – Earned or Entitled?

9 September 2010

Thomas Jefferson once said, “”I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.” When I [...]

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View from the Memorial Bridge

28 August 2010

About across the bridge enroute to the Restoring Honor rally. The streets are full. No parking. Droves of people. I should have come last night!

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Have you seen your uvula recently?

23 August 2010

There I was, sitting in church, minding my own business… I turn my gaze to a flash of movement on my right and what do I see? A lovely uvula, hanging in all its glory! Oh what a joy mine eyes were beholding as the owner of said uvula yawned broad and wide allowing all [...]

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Jefferson Quote demands consideration

11 August 2010

Time and again, Thomas Jefferson quotes appear in arguments that intend to support bigger government to protect the rights of individuals. Yet, I do not believe I have ever seen this quote in one of those discussions: “I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to [...]

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Silent Bell at Appomattox

15 July 2010

A bell stands in the sunlight at Appomattox, VA, the site of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant. The bell stands silently today harkening back to a time of great challenge in America. A time when America was watched by all to see if this was the point at [...]

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