On February 19, 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt issued his infamous Executive Order 9066 consigning all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to internment camps deep in the interior of the US. On March 21st, 1942 Congress enacted legislation giving authority…
It was in my father’s generation that tens of thousands of American citizens were illegally stripped of their constitutional rights to freedom of assembly, free speech, and freedom from illegal search and seizure. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor,…
In 1961 Yale University professor Dr. Stanley Milgram conducted a psychological experiment, trying to discover how far “normal”, “average” citizens would go in their obedience to “experts”. Like most people, he had been troubled for sometime over how the German…
Today, some 2 million American school children are not enrolled in public or private schools, but rather are educated by their parents at home. Almost 51 million school children are educated in America’s government-controlled public school system. Lastly, 5.7 million…
My wife and I home educated our children for 23 years. For the first ten years at least, we endured the typical questions: “Is that legal?” (America educated its children through home education for hundreds of years before public school…
Xu Xiaodong is a mixed martial artist in communist occupied China (the People’s Republic of China). He practices a combination of striking and grappling arts in full contact competition, and for the past several years has challenged traditional Chinese martial…
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…
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…
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…
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…