January 18, 2020

Why Are Our Children Shooting Each Other in School?

"The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload..." Some of you might remember those lyrics from the song "I Don’t Like Mondays."  It was written in 1979 by "sir" Bob Geldof, who was in a n...

December 18, 2019

The Sons of Liberty, then and now

"There are certain periods when human patience can no longer endure indignity and oppression.  The spark of liberty then kindles into a flame..." —In a letter from Samuel Adams to his cousin John Adams, dated October 4, 1...

December 10, 2019

Why the Law?

In the 1997 movie The Devil's Advocate, Al Pacino portrays Satan, and Keanu Reeves portrays his son, who is unaware that Pacino is his father.  Reeves is a hotshot lawyer from Florida who is lured away to New York City to work...

December 7, 2019

The white cockade

I first learned of the white cockade while I was reading the novel Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick.  On April 19, 1775, a militia regiment was positioned on top of Punkatasset Hill in Concord, Massachusetts.  As ...