RIGHT AND WRONG, Not Left and Right – America’s 3rd Option — Post 2 “Sunset in the Garden of Good and Evil”

By: jamesmpratt (Diary)  |  February 20th at 02:05 AM  | 

“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 »

RIP Goober, Mayberry, Culture – America at a “Right or Wrong” Crossroads

By: jamesmpratt (Diary)  |  May 7th at 06:56 PM  | 

Our friend George Lindsey, aka Goober Pyle, died May 6, 2012. Goober, the jovial, simple-minded character from Mayberry, lived and made us laugh at a time America needed a welcome dose of weekly relief from bad news. Coming out of the simpler and comparatively innocent days of 1950’s entertainment, traditional Americana was not something easy to find in those years when unspoken societal mores gave way to | Read More »