ex•cep•tion•al (adj): exceptional or unusual; not typical. Is America an exceptional place? Yes. Without discussion. Without question or even reasonable argument. But we aren’t exceptional just because we think we are, and we don’t think we’re exceptional in the same…
Here’s a little song I wrote you might want to sing it note for note don’t worry be happy In every life we have some trouble when you worry you make it double don’t worry, be happy…… -Bobby McFerrin Last…
As time ticks down to the Iowa caucuses—considered to be the official kickoff of the 2016 election season—we can all brace for the coming onslaught of radio and television commercial ads from candidates, Super PACs and heaven only knows who…
This past weekend marked the release date of “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”, a movie chronicling the saga of six members of the Annex Security Team’s firefight to protect the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya from an attack…
As teenagers we tried to master the art of walking the fine line that exists (so we think) between telling a lie and not telling what we know to be the truth. But then, presumably, as we age and mature…
Under George W. Bush there was no ISIS. ISIS formed during the Obama presidency. Many may not like reading those words, but they are truth. Under George Bush a ruthless dictator was deposed (& executed), thousands were set free from…
For all his mounting failures—record levels of debt, handing Iraq to ISIS, record high numbers on welfare, in poverty, out of the workforce, on and on it goes—there’s one area in which Barack Obama is succeeding massively: handing election victories…
