Opinion

Topic: Work, vocation, calling Many years ago, an arena filled with business people was asked this question: “If you went home tonight and found that a long lost relative had died and left you ten million dollars, would you be at work tomorrow?” “NO!” shouted the crowd. Meanwhile, a Gallup poll “found that 77 percent […]

Topic: Homeschooling If America is ever going to get turned around, one of the key areas that needs to be changed is education—including education in America’s true history. Homeschooling is one of the avenues that many concerned parents are beginning to pursue. Many of our founding fathers and key American leaders, like Abraham Lincoln, were […]

[Image of a Minuteman statue in Lexington, MA] Virtually every week there is some new attack on America as founded. Each one represents more chipping away at our nation’s Judeo-Christian roots. As a nation, we suffer from what I call “American Amnesia.” Here’s a recent example. There is a town about 30 miles away from San […]

Last week, in scanning various headlines, I was delighted to see—among all the bad news—this story: “George Washington’s 110 Rules of Civility.” The link they have brings the reader to the Mount Vernon website. This isn’t advice George Washington doled out. Rather, it’s a series of aphorisms that he learned as a youth that greatly […]

Topic: Myths About the Puritans and Pilgrims. American muckraking journalist H.L. Mencken once described a Puritan as a man who was upset that somebody somewhere was happy. But if you know anything about the real Puritans and their spiritual cousins, the Pilgrims, you know that’s not true at all. The Puritans and the Pilgrims made […]