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Happened Upon A Cemetery – A Poem

I don’t know how they fell or how they lived But I can’t help noticing they are there. I wonder, as I contemplate the markers

14 Sep

A historic vote, no question. Great Britain voted on 6.23.2016 to leave the European Union. As this blog

15 Jul

I was recently at a football clinic in southern Illinois. For those unfamiliar, a football clinic is a

30 Apr

I was listening to Dr. Milton Rosenberg’s podcast on an examination of English literature. As

26 Jan

“The face of European civilization… will never again be what it is now. There is no way back from a multicultural

12 Jul

Let’s get this out first…there is never going to be a perfect political system for

30 Jun

I was watching the television show House of Cards. For those that are unaware, it is a show only

20 Jun

Norman Podhoretz, in his book, Why We Were In Vietnam talked about fighting that particular conflict on the “political

30 May

The Peace of Westphalia, 1648. The Thirty Years’ War is over and the great wars of religion have

25 Dec

I think that if one were to look at European history in a macro sense, there are a few dates that fall

24 Apr