Collecting My Thoughts

I wanted to check a different translation today for the sermon, so I tried to find my old KJV from 1946, which I received for Christmas that...

It’s been suggested before. I don’t see for this time in history. I was reading Erling Olsen’s meditation on Psalm 124 this morning which ...

Yesterday morning the Psalm selection in Magnificat was Psalm 107—titled, "A Psalm with a message for America Today." Erling C. Ol...

Lately I’ve been hearing/reading the expression “telling the story” or “story telling to fight injustice,” “the narrative,” . . . as in  “yo...

Generally, I would never deface a book, but I have 8 of the American Indian books by Platt and Munk published in the 1930s. I loved them a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hArErdaiOW0 I consider him the best writer of the 20th century.  One volume of his history of the 20th c...

Ronald Clark, a blogger and retired systems engineer for the Navy from Indianapolis, Indiana writes: Back when the depression was going and...

Yes, and like FDR, he'll drag this out to achieve his political ends--more government in our lives. FDR needed more revenue to support ...

Last night's Glenn Beck program was a rerun of some features he's done on American history and the treatment of minorities and alien...

Maybe that's why all those WWI veterans' photos and stories in Life and Look are so awful! Go to a library and see for yourself! L...

A cartoon from the 1930s (I haven't vetted it, so if it's as phony as an ACORN registration gig, it's still true) seen at The Lo...

Good politics is bad history and bad economics It's a toss up. The demeaning and foot shuffling dance of the United States abroad by Bid...

FDR's failures will be Obama's During high school and college courses of American History that I took (I had enough for a minor in c...

Channeling FDR The U.S. could have been out of the Great Depression by 1933, saving our parents and grandparents much grief. When you look...

Monday Memories Have I ever told you why my mother was a Democrat (according to my father)? My parents were married over 65 years. My mo...