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Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Today, it is the public school teachers, tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and […]
The Sound of Music on Trump’s attempt to steal the election The Smithsonian is one of the premier educational and cultural institutions in the country and the world. When it is in the news it usually because of a donation it received either in money or an object. It conducts symposia on important cultural and […]
The 21st century is different from the 20th. Last century, the wars were of great magnitude: World War I – we were triumphant in the global war against Germany World War II – we were triumphant in the global wars against German and Japan World War III – we were triumphant in the global Cold […]
Is Rome worth one good man’s life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him. Senator Gracchus: Who will help me carry him? [Gladiators surround Maximus to carry him out of the arena] “Gladiator” is remembered as an epic story of great heroism. Such movies of […]
The Bible is the news today. Perhaps not since the Scopes trial has it received this much public attention. (The centennial of that trial of the century will be the subject of a future blog.) But what do the Mean AGainst Americans mean when they refer to the Bible? And what do they mean about […]
The two disasters are separated by 99 years. One, a post-rainfall avalanche that resulted in the death of 9 godly people in Franconia Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The second a post-rainfall flood that resulted in a still increasing number of people in Flash Flood Alley in the Texas Hill country including […]
The North Rim of the Grand Canyon has burned. Dragon Bravo Fire has destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge. I worked there one summer when I was in college. The North Rim is different from the more developed South Rim (I applied there too and received a rejection notice in July, a little late for […]
The Marquis de Lafayette is winding up the bicentennial of his tour of the United States as the nation’s guest by helping to naturalize 150 people from 43 countries at Federal Hall in New York in a ceremony conducted Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain, United District Court for the Southern District of New York. The […]
In Iran there are between 1-2 zillion signs denouncing the United States as the Great Satan. A common epithet is “Death to America.” For decades, Persians have been bombarded with these signs from the Iranian theocrats who govern the country. One might think that after such an extensive delivery of the message that the result […]
Is America becoming Exceptional? No. Is America becoming the last best hope of humanity? No. Is the President of the United States becoming Commander in Chief and Leader of the Free World? No. Could all these questions be answered in the reverse due to the war in Iran? Yes. War provides an opportunity for leadership […]
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
