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  • Pandemic Exposes Flaws of Education System, Educator Says

    Pandemic Exposes Flaws of Education System, Educator Says0

    I would guess that the neighbor kids living across the street from me are a microcosm of America’s youth population. The oldest hates the distance learning that has been inflicted upon him in recent months. His younger sister, however, loves the secluded learning environment, and would be happy if she never had to go back

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  • Footprints in the Snow: The Burgling of America

    Footprints in the Snow: The Burgling of America0

    Roughly twenty years ago, a man in Asheville, North Carolina left his home in the wee hours of the morning, walked a couple of blocks to a convenience store, burglarized the store, and returned home with his loot. Unfortunately for our thief, snow had blanketed the city earlier that night. After responding to the burglary

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  • Political Correctness in the History of the South

    Political Correctness in the History of the South0

    I was recently gifted “The South Was Right,” by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy, an updated version of a work originally produced in 1994. Seeking an antidote to the PC historiography in which our universities are now awash, I happily plunged into this printed gift. The present “leftist ideologues,” more than their predecessors, hate

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  • Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater

    Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater0

    My mom loved listening to Broadway musicals and particularly favored South Pacific. By the time I left for college, she had played that record so often I had memorized most of the songs and can still belt them out. I also saw the movie with her—I’m generally not a fan of musicals on film, and this

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  • A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy

    A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy1

    At the beginning of the year, a couple of my coworkers challenged me to join the yearly book challenge on Goodreads. While I am still wrapping up a few of my selections, I’m on track to finish my goal, and it’s rewarding to see the finish line in sight. Having done this challenge, I took

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  • 2020: America’s Wake-Up Call

    2020: America’s Wake-Up Call0

    Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be? By this New Year’s Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us. As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at

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