[November 16, 2025] We have a moral obligation to study evil and learn how to avoid common mistakes that lead us down the wrong path in life. Watch the Devil. Know his malevolence so that if you are on the wrong path, you can stop, recognize it, turn around, figure out why you took the wrong road, make… Read More »
[November 12, 2025] Being a leader means many things but one thing that is required for those who desire to be successful is to have a good set of social skills. It doesn’t mean that a successful leader is required to have table manners, a pretty smile, or fashionable clothes; although it certainly helps. That is why I… Read More »
[November 8, 2025] Look for generosity and kindness in your friends, especially those who show it across all levels of society. This is a sign of a sincere friend and potential partner. People who are helpful and friendly to those at the lower end of the social hierarchy, such as janitors and servers, and not just kind to… Read More »
[October 29, 2025] Drink bad coffee; no sugar, no cream, regular brewed coffee and avoid drinking fancy, shop-made, yuppie-sipping, fancy-flavored coffee. Avoid complexity and unneeded activities and expenses. Live a simpler life. Have less stress by not trying to be like other people. It’s best to not try “keeping up with the Jones’ next door.” Learn to be… Read More »
[October 28, 2025] The stories of our war Veterans returning home are often disregarded as trivial and irrelevant. Besides that, we hear that these stories are not new. True enough! But one such story involves Homer’s epic work, “The Odyssey,” which is about Odysseus’ returning home after Troy. It deserves mentioning because it shows how not all returning… Read More »
[October 16, 2025] I’ll be highlighting The Savage Narrator channel today, which has done a good job of telling us there are things to kick out of your life. In a video called 10 Things You Must Quietly Eliminate from Your Life | Don’t Tell a Soul, we see that some toxic habits and attachments quietly destroy our… Read More »
[September 20, 2025] This morning, in the early hours as I prepare for the last day of honoring our Vietnam Veterans, I watched a clip of Dr. Jordan Peterson discussing the virtue of being a monster. I thought to myself, how appropriate his comments were, because that is what our heroes from that war created, virtuous men who… Read More »
[September 19, 2016] A few years ago, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., there was a discussion at the most senior levels of the U.S. military on “emerging leaders” and senior leader thinking. I was there. About a dozen new General/Flag officers were being advised on what would be expected of them in their roles. Much is expected… Read More »
[September 13, 2025] John Hinderaker, a writer for PowerLineBlog.com, put out an article on violence in America. He was on radio and television shows hosted by liberals. He was asked what he thought was the best way to reduce political violence. His answer was to stop calling everyone you disagree with Adolf Hitler. I found it interesting that… Read More »
[August 30, 2025] The book was in my mailbox, a surprise from a fan who thought I might like reading about Army Engineers in World War II. The book, First Across the Rhine: The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in France, Belgium, and Germany (1989) by Colonel David E. Pergrin, was somehow familiar to me. After looking through my… Read More »