Author Archives: Douglas R. Satterfield
[August 13, 2023] Shocking video of the UK Police violently arresting an autistic 16-year-old girl. The West Yorkshire police arrested the girl for saying a policewoman looked like her “lesbian nana.” This is deemed a ‘hate crime’ in the UK. The terrified girl was dragged away by seven police officers charging her with a “homophobic public order offense.”… Read More »
[August 12, 2023] Wow, my phone has been ringing off the hook. The wild and crazy things going on over the past day or so make it hard to dig into the details, so I am putting out one of my ‘clearing the spindle’ articles. Initially, I would write about lessons from the Hawaii wildfires that killed at… Read More »
[August 11, 2023] Convicted child predator Jack Reynolds, who spent more than 12 years in prison for molesting children in the 1980s, agreed to share his techniques as a predator (link to article and video here). They asked him what sort of characteristics he looked for in a child before targeting them. He said more important than the… Read More »
[August 10, 2023] As early as I can remember, at least since I was a very young child, I wanted to be a Firefighter, and it was my life’s goal, yet I was young and terribly inexperienced and naïve. Like any kid with potential, I could be anything, but I knew I did not want to work with… Read More »
[August 7, 2023] I read this story years ago and saved it on my computer desktop. Somehow the article got shuffled around and lost in my many files. Happily, I found it. I think you will agree the story about a man and his dog will touch your heart. The author of this spiritual story is unknown. Please… Read More »
[August 6, 2023] I’ll make a few comments about David Garrow’s recent book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017), as pointed out by Scott Johnson in PowerLineBlog (link here). Garrow’s biography is the best-researched, most comprehensive study of past President Barack Obama and covers more than a thousand pages of text. What I find most interesting… Read More »
[August 5, 2023] In the summer of 1966, just before High School, I helped a local potato farmer with his crops. I don’t remember if I ever had a dirtier job, yet I both enjoyed and hated working the fields because it was a cross between picking cotton and cleaning pigpens; it was smelly, sweltering, filthy, humid, and… Read More »
[August 4, 2023] U.S. Army General George S. Patton is known as one of America’s greatest leaders. Fortunately, he led much of the WW2 European Theatre effort against the Nazi military machine. What I learned most from reading his speeches and anecdotes from his Soldiers was that the way to be the greatest person you can be is… Read More »
[August 2, 2023] I grew up in Louisiana, just across the river from Mississippi and while both competed for the lowest position in America for education, social services, income, and a variety of measures of quality of life. Today, Mississippi is back in the news for hiring Britain’s leading advocate for Brexit, Mr. Douglas Carswell, now the Mississippi… Read More »
[August 1, 2023] This will sound weird and maybe unbelievable to those who have never been in the military, but I love concertina wire. Concertina wire comes in a circular coil like a slinky toy and is made up of small barbs that will snag anything soft. Our armed forces use it to keep people and small vehicles… Read More »