Yawper

I propose that we reconsider the way we view the wars of the twentieth century.  History, I believe, will reach the same conclusion in time, therefore it seems unnecessary to procrastinate.   In this thesis the Vietnam War, for example, was not a war at all, but a conflict in a much larger struggle. Carl von […]

At the moment of conception the United State of America was an influential nation.  The Declaration of 1776 reverberated around the world, and the Constitution adopted in 1787 became a global model.  American liberty inspired the French and was the foundation for the Polish Constitution of 1791.  In Central Europe German, Dutch, Belgian, Austrian leaders, […]

America, in its relationships with foreign nations, has long valued stability.  Even the Cold War strategies built around mutual assured destruction (MAD) were predicated on a type of rational stability.  To further this goal America has made both regrettable decisions, such as supporting anti-democratic regimes, and achieved much good, through tactics like free trade.   Portions […]

The prophet of the greatest American virtue warned us.  Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the essay Self-Reliance, wrote that, there is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that… no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given […]

I have not the stomach to bear another Obama speech.  So, on the occasion of the inauguration I offer the speech I would have given were I to become President this January.  Having written speeches professionally, I admit this is not my best work.  When I was paid to write rhetoric I would have days […]