If the Land Was Stolen, Give It Back
Recently, I was invited to attend a Sunday service at a Methodist church rather than my regular church. Read more…
250 years ago, and 200 years ago
We’re celebrating 1776 on this coming July 4, but events from 1825-1827 also resonate as a lesson as to whether…
Yesterday’s purges, today’s primaries
It was this week back in 1934 that we experienced something called Night of the Long Knives: Read more Chavez’s…
Juneteenth’s Historical Irony and the Forgotten Emancipation Proclamation
On June 19, 1865, two months after Confederate leader Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived…
Heroism 101: Bob Hilliard keeps marching into his second century
We have a titanic hero in Southwest Florida. He’s Bob Hilliard, who turns 101 on June 25. Mark that Thursday…
The D-Day speech that every kid should read
We recall D-Day 1944, or the invasion of Europe that put thousands of US and allied young men on the…
The Nationalism of St. Joan of Arc
The issue of immigration is central to many countries in Europe and also the United States in today’s political environment.…