When Models Fail

Dr. Amy Acton is the Director of the Ohio Health Department. She is the only government agent legally responsible for the Ohio COVID-19 lockdown. She has signed every order closing every business and dictating every lockdown policy. This is the reality because Ohio...

COVID Chronicles: The Mayor and the Mouse

How long can Central Florida’s economy survive the lock down forced by President Trump, Governor DeSantis and Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings? Disney’s closing started an economic collapse that resulted in a 14% hotel occupancy rate in March. Now the region’s...

COVID Chronicles: Unemployment Update

As reported by Johns Hopkins University, citing data from the U.S. Dept. of Labor and the New York times, unemployment rates have doubled in just ONE WEEK. Unemployment claims skyrocketed from 3.3 million to 6.6 million in just seven days due to the economic lockdowns...

Look at the Triumphs

It is easy to forget victories and lose hope in a better tomorrow when all you see and hear is doom and gloom. In my last blog I talked about people of faith who only grew stronger and more hopeful even in such a terrible place as a concentration camp. I think from...

Faith in the Concentration Camps

I recently finished reading Elie Wiesel’s book “Night.” It is his first hand account of being sent to Auschwitz and later, other Nazi concentration camps. One reads with horror and compassion for Elie and for all the prisoners as they are subjected...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “Bless You Prison”

For those of you raised in the 1970s (like me) the name of Alexander Solzhenitsyn is probably a familiar name. He was the famous Soviet dissident who was exiled from the USSR and made quite a splash over here in the United States and Western Europe. His books “A...