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April 25, 2016

Questions are not the Problem: Finding Yourself and not Endless Sorrow (Hamlet 1/3)

Higher education begins in learning to form and ask good questions. A good professor challenges...

April 24, 2016

The Comedy of Errors (Or How To Win a Trade War)

Everything may not turn out perfectly in this life, but by God's grace everything will...

April 23, 2016

Our Duty: Find our Place, Do Our Duty (Shakespeare’s Coriolanus)

Nothing is worse than when the rich oppress the poor except, perhaps, when the poor...

April 22, 2016

Worse things than Losing, Better things than Winning: Richard II

We have a Presidential candidate who says we are going to win so much as...

April 21, 2016

Did I ever tell you you’re my hero? (The Search for Henry V or Siegfried)

We are always looking for heroes. Often we find someone we admire, a political, religious,...

April 20, 2016

Be Content, Know My Place, Avoid a Lust for Power (Macbeth)

God exalts the humble and Satan tempts us with the kingdoms of this world. American...

April 19, 2016

Woe is not Romantic: Just Ask Juliet and Romeo

Woe is not romantic, but art can make it feel that way. If a piece...

April 18, 2016

Lovers Win, Wise Guys Lose (Living “As You Like It”)

Love can make you stupid . . . or seemingly stupid. People in love believe...

April 17, 2016

Ending Envy and Revenge in Redemption (Learning from The Winter’s Tale)

It should be a tragedy, because envy and revenge always end in tragedy. They are...

April 16, 2016

Hail to Baseball!

I love watching football . . . to the point that I once gave the...

April 15, 2016

It is April 15: It can be a good day.

Today your taxes are due. Yesterday in 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Last night in...

April 14, 2016

You Give Material Goods Meaning and Value: RMS Titanic Day

Human beings have a power that comes from the Almighty and this power can do...

April 13, 2016

Be Calm, But Don’t Carry On: Three Rules for the Gentleperson on the RMS Titanic of Life

Life, like the RMS Titanic, is quite wonderful, though not equally so for all of...

April 12, 2016

Heading to an Iceberg- Avoiding Being on RMS Titanic

The year is steaming toward April 14 and 15 . . . one hundred and...

April 11, 2016

Head and Heart: Blend Both and then Use Your Hands to Act

Whether you watch the movie Metropolis or read Republic or simply sit with the Psalms, recall that...

April 10, 2016

Being #NeverCruz is Too Precious: Why I Might Vote Cruz

Warren Throckmorton is a good man and as a leader in taking down liars and...

April 09, 2016

Slight Way: The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Slight Way

My Dad is always teaching me something new. Our family has always had a saying...

April 08, 2016

How Donald J. Trump Can Win

Donald J. Trump will never be President of the United States, but he can still...

April 07, 2016

Eisenhower, the Domino Effect, and Vietnam as a Just War

April 7 marks the day when Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of our most underrated Presidents,...

April 06, 2016

How Qualified is Secretary Clinton?

Yet again people are chatting about how Secretary Clinton is the "most qualified" person to...

April 05, 2016

The Best Time to Be Alive Is Now

Jesus is Lord. That is true today. It was true the day they crucified the...

April 04, 2016

Everyone Opposed to My Point of View is in the Pay of Evil

I am fortunate in my friends. They stick by me through my bad opinions (Romney...

April 03, 2016

Mrs. Clinton: You are a Human, You Have a Right to Life, and the Constitution Has Nothing to Do With It

Secretary Clinton is (sort of) right when she says the "unborn child does not have...

April 02, 2016

So Things Are Not So Bad. . . Right?

I feel cheerful and I am afraid to admit it. I learned a very big...

April 01, 2016

Misunderstood, but not by God

Motives are mixed because in people that' s what motives do: they confuse themselves and...

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