Collecting My Thoughts

Recently I was added by mistake to a chat group of relatives discussing the next family reunion. Except I wasn't part of the clan, nor c...

Although I haven't read it yet, First Things has an article "How Trump won over women voters."   How Trump Won Over Women Vo...

Joe Biden gave us a humiliating, disastrous withdrawal from one war, and has involved us in two others (by financing them). Let's not fo...

I came across an item about soldiers and wars in my blog entry of June 1, 2008.  I didn't follow through on my question about how have s...

 I love reading hymns in my morning devotions.  Sometimes I spend all my time on the opening hymn and Psalm. I own two hymnal sources, both ...

This is a Happy New Year message from Wall St. Journal this morning: "I hope you're enjoying the holiday weekend because 2024 isn...

When it comes to famous people, even famous conservatives I like who are much less duplicitous and nasty than leftist famous click baiters, ...

The U.S. is the biggest player in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Why are we not working on a peace agreement instead of selling one cou...

A new restaurant in Dubai offers Ukrainian expats a taste of home : NPR Fashion isn't as important as a taste of home. "She's d...

I noticed this phrase in a City Journal article about the Russia vs. Ukraine war: "Russian atrocities against Ukrainians rely on the ...

Sri Lanka used to be a food exporter, had a thriving economy. The government decided they needed to go "green" to save the planet ...

                                    Teens in Borodianka Ukraine, May 13, 2022.  Washington Post

About 35 years ago I applied for a job as the Director of an organization helped victims of TBI, traumatic brain injury. I had some of the ...

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/harming-environment-war-crime/? Very interesting piece which ends up blaming the U.S. for damage ...

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...

Winds of war.  I think I know how this current situation in Syria will play out.  Big stories about WMD. Photographs of the horror.  A Repub...

George Weigel writes that the 19th century ended in August 1914 with the start of WWI and ended in August 1991 with the collapse of the Sovi...

At it again: our peace prize prez. "President Obama announced Friday that about 100 U.S. troops have been deployed to the West African ...

In 2009 Obama dithered and dawdled over the troop surge in Afghanistan, and consequently, he lost an opportunity to succeed, and had lost mo...

The media are right on this, of course. Drone strikes secret DOJ White Paper