Yawper

President Obama took a break from flirting with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to refer to Burma as Myanmar. Mr. President, the nation is Burma.  Myanmar is the name used by the tyrannical junta that controls the nation.  Myanmar is a land of human trafficking, human rights abuses, systematic rape, child labor, slavery, torture, fear […]

It is a sad fact that something deeply embedded in the human psyche is inexorably drawn to utopian visions.  What begins with confidence and optimism invariably falls to a harsh reality.  The hopeful seduction of fixing the world has ever ended in heartbreak. In the United States the nineteenth century was a time that swelled […]

Peering into history it is easy to find things that seem ridiculous – like trepanation, the medical practice of drilling holes in the skull to “cure” migraine headaches.  Understanding that we are not exempt from history means that someday, people will look back on our world and discover mind-boggling stupidity in things we think ordinary […]

If what I am reading on Facebook, Tweeter, and blogs is any indication, many Democrat friends are completely misunderstanding State of Florida vs. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – the Supreme Court case that will determine the Constitutionality of Obamacare. Folks, the case is not about health care.   It is not.  Not even […]

The St. Crispin’s Day speech of Shakespeare’s Henry V tears at me.   In the historic Battle of Agincourt, Henry’s men were badly outnumbered, far from home, exhausted, and suffering from widespread dysentery.  The eloquence the Bard injected into the English defiance resonates still. The valiant stand and the lost cause are among the most powerful […]