November 30, 2014

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Allahu Akbar

The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is immovable, guarded by four Islamic minarets as a Christian architectural prisoner. It was originally the Santa Sophia[1] built as a Christian Orthodox Church to honor the Wisdom of God in 537, nearly a century before I...

April 12, 2014

Bundy Ranch, the Federal Government, and the Nevada Water Tipping Point

Many Americans have been watching with great consternation the ongoing struggle between the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Marshals against Cliven Bundy and his family.  There are no signs of either side relinquishing its p...

April 17, 2010

The Man Who Supersized Higher Education

When most people discuss the Civil War, they often think of battlefields, cities on fire, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and a divided nation. Imagery evoked by the novel and movie Gone with the Wind may even come to mind. The life of Justin Morrill (...