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It was a nice afternoon that January 29, 2012, and a businessman was returning to his south Florida home after a week away. He was traveling at about seventy miles an hour. Trees were flying by on both sides of the car, and he was …

I have a shocking confession to make that will likely set some of you back… I was never a big fan of Motown’s music. It isn’t that I disliked the IDEA of allowing young African American singers to break into a career that was dominated …

It was the 1970’s, and the rage in the Universities across America was educating new teachers for what was now known as a “Social Science” curriculum. New Math was showing its first graduates – and its first deficits. The so-called “Dr. Spock effect” was truly …

We’ve all heard the saying: “The truth hurts!” Usually it is said to us in the context of some lack in us that is being pointed out by someone who may be a bit less than sensitive to our feelings. We MAY KNOW something is …

There is a popular saying: “Its not over till the fat lady sings”. This is an expression based on the perception of Grand Opera, where a stereotypically overweight soprano finishes the with the curtain falling. We will keep using it until the ACLU picks up …

She grew up in a good home, loved by her parents…They gave her everything they could afford. They tried their best to discipline her well. They offered every incentive to do right… but evil’s enticements seemed too strong for their efforts. She slipped away from …

In 1898, America was in the grips of the Spanish-American War, though its troops were decimated after the Civil War thirty years before.  The United States Army enacted the “First United States Volunteer Cavalry” that history would remember as “Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.” President William McKinley …