The VFW calendar on our refrigerator reminds me that today marks the anniversary of our national anthem, which was officially labeled...

Nearly every four years (I’ll let you figure out the exceptions), a day must be added to the calendar because we lose six hours a year...

South Carolinians can now have some peace and quiet for a few months. With the Republican presidential primary now history, they will...

How many historians today fulfill the following few simple criteria, making them worthy of their calling as historians? How many even try...

More than twenty-five years ago, I interviewed a man who was outwardly the least likely candidate to be an expert on anything, let alone...

Here’s an excellent article by Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College:

On Tuesday, January 26, 1932, infamous gangland kingpin Al Capone was imprisoned for income tax evasion. The son of Italian immigrants...

Too often today, business leaders (especially successful ones) get a bad rap as miserly, money-grubbing, selfish, and uncaring. Although...

Tomorrow, January 20, marks two significant anniversaries, one in world history and the other in my history. First, let’s be personal....

One would think that learning a lesson the hard way–that is, from mistakes made in the School of Hard Knocks–would teach an unforgettable...

My book just got many steps closer to being published! I learned over the weekend that the cover design is complete, and the book will be...

Do you think that it can’t happen here? Novelist Sinclair Lewis addressed that thinking in his 1930s novel It Can’t Happen Here. An...

In my last post, “May They Never Be Forgotten,” I mentioned that we must not only remember to honor the military veterans who won World...

Dec 14, 2015 The other day, I received in the mail a solicitation for a donation to a group dedicated to memorializing the veterans of...

Larry Reed’s recent post about the life and work of Leonard Read, long the head of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) caused me...

That long-worked-on manuscript is now one step closer to becoming a book! I delivered the full, completed manuscript package—text,...

Life is filled with milestone events. Births and birthdays. Graduations and commencements. Wedding ceremonies and wedding anniversaries....

Today, I take a brief glance backward to August 28, 2015, when I posted this article, my first effort at blogging. Much has changed since...