On Saturday, June 28: a teen-aged boy visiting Six Flags Over Georgia died due to a lack of character.
You don’t believe that?
It is, sadly, very true. His death was caused by a lack of character.
First, let me say that I am not saying the teen was a bad person. I never knew him. Nor am […]
“Character is the only secure foundation of the state,” said President Calvin Coolidge, and our last two blog entries considered the meaning of that statement. Coolidge was “distinguished for character more than for heroic achievement,” wrote a Democratic admirer, Alfred E. Smith. In other words, Coolidge did not only talk about character, but also exercised […]
“Character is the only secure foundation of the state,” said President Calvin Coolidge, and our last blog entry looked at the kind of man who would make such a statement. We saw a politician who had the courage of his convictions. We saw a politician who knew that governments tend to rise and fall based […]
“Character is the only secure foundation of the state.” Those words were uttered by President Calvin Coolidge in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on January 17, 1925.
As the 30th president of the U.S. (1872 - 1933), President Coolidge knew and stated clearly what many modern politicians, who suppose themselves more enlightened, […]
High school graduation rates have plummeted to a point below 50 percent in some U.S. cities. That’s according to the “America’s Promise Alliance”, which found that only about half of public school students in the nation’s largest cities receive diplomas.
Viewing the nation as a whole, the group found that only about 70 percent of U.S. […]
Hillary Clinton misspoke, she says, about the sniper threat when she visited Bosnia in 1996 – twelve years ago. Mrs. Clinton said that it was a rare thing for her to misspeak, telling her listeners on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: “… Last week, for the first time in 12 years or so, I misspoke.”
Hillary […]
The weekend news carried yet another story about a nanny cam capturing assault of a baby. The hidden camera caught this nanny more than once in the act of shaking a crying, five-month old baby girl. It later caught her smothering the baby to keep her quiet. At her job, the mother saw the assault […]
Let me begin by saying that this is not intended as an analysis of every political figure. Just as each one has distinctive physical features, so each has distinctive moral features. The question is this: Do the majority of our political figures model moral excellence or something less?
Governor Spitzer of New York state is much […]
You’ve probably heard of eating pie “a la mode” – meaning pie served in the current fashion or style. I’m thinking today about respect in the current Hollywood fashion or style. I use “Hollywood” to stand for the whole of the global entertainment industry: movies, TV, music, etc. How does respect look when it is […]
Over the weekend, I was privileged to drive through a picturesque part of Montana. The roads were bare, but snow still covered the ground; the many, small lakes we passed were still frozen solid. Two white tail deer raced across one frozen lake, while many more white-tails rested under fir and western larch trees. A […]