November 3, 2023

A small town in Ireland wakes up...a little

The Irish town where my mother was born and raised, very much Christian, held its annual gay pride parade this year.  With children holding banners and waving flags, with store windows displaying enthusiastic support, this second-year march...

June 3, 2022

The Marine Corps has dropped its helmet

I always thought the month of June was set aside for June brides. But the whole month has been usurped by the LGTQ etc. community.  This is one cultural appropriation that is ignored. And now we have the USMC out with a new symbol to ...

September 11, 2021

'My daddy died': Honoring 9/11

Every September 11 is referred to as 9/11. How ironic that the same configuration of numbers is the 911 we use to call for a police, fire, or medical emergency. The spectacle of planes flying into the Twin Towers in New York City, the sight of the...

August 14, 2021

Irish spunk vs. authority

When Irish-born Mary Doherty took her husband Jim on his first visit to Ireland, they drove the twenty minutes across the border into Derry/Londonderry.  This was in 1973, during the Troubles when the tensions between the people of the Repu...

July 29, 2021

Congressmen weeping on television embarrass themselves and us

Here's how it worked in third grade.  If an incident on the playground carried over into the classroom, the problem was discussed and diffused so life could go on until three o'clock dismissal.  Children were not encourage...

July 8, 2021

What mandatory Holocaust curricula show about teaching Critical Race Theory

My wisdom teeth were removed in eighth grade.  Before he put me under, the dentist told me to think of what I wanted most to do in my life.  My desire was to visit every state in America before I was an old lady.  Well, ...