Remember when Hank Williams, Jr. was canned by Monday Night Football for comparing then President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler? These days, Democrats and their allies on the Left regularly make exactly the same Hitlerian comparison with President Donald Trump. Indeed, on Sunday, CNN’s pompous news anchor Don Lemon did Read more…
Griffin Harris is a man who knows something about pain and loss. An alcoholic, Griffin had struggled to overcome his addiction and had enjoyed seasons of success. But the temptation, ever present, would eventually win out. It came at a terrible cost. In addition to his job, he lost his Read more…
Only you — only you! — could manage to get shot in the ass!” The year was 1987. A group of middle-aged men sat under the umbrellas at the cheap fiberglass tables of the Holiday Inn in Columbus, Georgia not far from Fort Benning. They deserved a Ritz-Carlton, but this would have Read more…
“Don’t hold your breath,” my father said. “You’ll begin to shake slightly, and a millimeter on this end will translate to centimeters or meters on the other end.” I enjoyed shooting for fun. I would take my BB gun into the forest and shoot cans, bottles, and improvised targets. For Read more…
Do you remember PE as a kid? In my day, we were required to learn a spectrum of sports and their rules. Baseball, basketball, wrestling, flag football, volleyball, trampoline, track and, at the end of the year, we competed for the coveted President’s Physical Fitness Award. We even boxed! On days when our coaches were not Read more…
The Pastor Platt Presidential Prayer Apology*: A Study in Hate Yesterday I published a column in The American Spectator on a controversy that erupted after a Baptist pastor in D.C. prayed for President Trump during a church service. You can read the full article here. In summary, the pastor, David Read more…
On Sunday, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, made an unexpected stop at Maclean Baptist Church in Washington D.C. Unlike so many of us, the President wasn’t going for the coffee and donuts. On the contrary, President Trump wanted the people of that church to pray Read more…
In a previous post I said that pain changes you. Those of my readers who have known great pain will know what I mean. For Christmas of 2017, we bought a golden retriever puppy for our daughter Sasha. It would be the first dog that was her very own. She Read more…
As I write, I sit at New York Pizza, one of my favorite haunts. No, it’s not in Manhattan. It’s not even in the state of New York. It is in Homewood, Alabama. And while it isn’t the Piazza San Marco, it’ll do. It’s sunny and hot — and getting Read more…
In his classic (and massive) work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, author William L. Shirer, who was an American correspondent living in Berlin in the years leading up to World War II, talks about the effect that false reporting had on him and the German people: “I Read more…