“I know in my heart that man is good…and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Epitaph etched on wall at the grave site of Ronald W. Reagan The juxtaposed view of the value of life couldn’t be more glaringly transparent than when we compare Ronald Reagan’s value for all life against the constant complaint of the left… That some | Read More »
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” — William Wilberforce Americans can smell a donkey and see an elephant from a mile away. They don’t need the politics of left or right to clarify the facts speaking for right or wrong. “Benghazi happened a long time ago,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney | Read More »
“No law can give me the right to do what is wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln A Moral Nation and a Crossroad In Post #1 , the “Introduction” to RIGHT and WRONG, Not Left and Right, America’s Third Option – a manuscript — opens with these words from Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1831 Democracy in America: “America is great because she is good. When America ceases to be good, America will | Read More »
“The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool: come and see.” Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, 1.1 ROME BC Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra opens with a line from Philo who is lamenting the transformation of Rome’s greatest general, Marc Antony, into a fool because of the allure of Cleopatra and the opiate she had become to him. Thus ended the constitutional | Read More »
LEADERS, REPUTATIONS and ENDORSEMENT! Leaders act. Pretenders talk. Heroes run to the fire and cowards walk. Republican, Four Star General, former Secretary of State, and former National Security Adviser Colin Powell is a proven leader. He endorsed the sitting President on October 25, 2012; this the second time in four years. As a private citizen this great man has rolled the dice on transparent Presidential failure and | Read More »
When Barack Obama chose to send a message to Vladimir Putin this spring at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Korea, he couldn’t have know the mic was on as he conveyed words meant to be privately relayed to the Russian strong man. If a Republican President had done what he did on that day in March the US media would have never let it go and the | Read More »
September 2012 should be a month of scandal and sure defeat in the upcoming election for any sitting President… …but we live in a world of pop culture elections, fake noise to distract, and teflon media coverage making it difficult to identify real leadership. PART ONE of THREE REPORTS Leadership is not something you hear. Leadership is not something people say. Leadership is action. And in America leadership deserves to be reported | Read More »
“A metaphor is like a simile.” ~Author Unknown. I write historical, inspirational and thriller novels, containing a simile here and there, but mostly substance. Readers want plausible meat with their fantasy. So I write — making fiction believable; plots, intrigue, character development, strong beginnings and powerful endings happen–sometimes easy to accomplish in a “make believe world.” As I flipped between the NFL game and BILL CLINTON’s | Read More »
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