Monthly Archives: May 2024

Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 72

[May 13, 2024]  “We love having you at our house, Little Big Man.”  We called him Granddaddy; he was Bigmama’s husband.  He was a short but strong man, forgiving of my misbehavior, forthrightly religious, a good storyteller, skilled with his hands, able to fall asleep in his office chair, and intense but compassionate.  He was a man who… Read More »

The Know-Nothing Party

[May 9, 2024]  Bigotry knows no bounds, and it is found wherever we also find an absence of the freedom of speech, religion, and right to assembly.  America has been called the land of the free because there is a deep-seated commitment to those values that allow us to discuss what we disagree with openly.  America’s Know-Nothing Party,… Read More »

America’s History of Abandoning Allies

[May 7, 2024]  The recent announcement from America’s White House that the United States will oppose Israel’s move to destroy its enemy, Hamas, is part of a long history of America’s history of abandoning its allies.  Of course, the impact of this foreign strategy has largely destroyed America’s reputation and emboldened enemies of America to attack soft targets… Read More »