Collecting My Thoughts

As fingers point and hands are wrung about 50 soldiers pulled out of the Turkey-Syria conflict where the U.S. is attempting to hold back ISI...

According to a letter I found, I bought this book in 2001 from the wonderful used book store (now closed) Acorn in Grandview because of th...

Why are Democrats like Pelosi and Schumer so determined to go back on their word about the Wall? Why are they now failing native born Ameri...

We live in an era where there is more sex and labor slavery than there was during the 18th c. Atlantic slave trade--perhaps 30 million.  But...

I've been reading some glowing reports about foreign born black immigrants--education level, income, extending to 2nd generation. But t...

https://vimeo.com/117041982 Always happy to find his program in English—he travels all over the world.

“Do They Even Know It’s Christmas?” is voted as the worst Christmas song ever by this writer at a Catholic site. It's from Band Aid 1984...

Where there is still slavery--Mauritania. And many don't even realize they are slaves. Something like 10-20% of the population with ligh...

I was probably in my 30s or 40s before I found out that before the Civil War freed blacks in the U.S. owned slaves. I don't recall that ...

450,000 Christians Flee From Muslim Attacks in the Central African Republic "Unlike Christian communities in Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, and...

As many faults as Bush brought to the table, Obama is making him look like a hero and statesman, which I doubt that he was. However, Bush wa...

In the 16th through the 19th centuries Arab Muslims captured and sold black Africans to European slavers who then shipped them to the “new w...

Obama and Racism There are so many political and moral reasons to fight Obama's fight to claim our White House, I'm always surprise...