Three decades separate me from Blake Masters. He arrived 34 years after me and yet when the topics are America’s uniqueness, our personal freedom, and the opportunity to create lives shaped by opportunity and self-reliance there is no light between us. The...
Choosing one’s friends is critical and typically based on mutual interests, common values, and compatibility. The China-Russia alliance on display in Ukraine fits my criteria for global comrades, aka, friends. China and Russia share a mutual interest in the...
Every now and then we catch a glimpse of what’s real and we are awakened from our slumber to new, bright possibilities. My time with Amy Carney started like most of my other interviews, with the background. I pulled up Amazon and typed into my search Parent on...
During the Information Age, there have been a handful of iconic moments that symbolized speaking truth to power and standing up to tyranny. They would include “Tank Man” in Tiananmen Square and German youth hitting the crumbling Berlin Wall with hammers. Such events...
A century ago, immigration was a product of the American dream. Hard-working people from across the world poured in because America was a beacon of hope for those in search of a new life for their families. We took in people who made our country even better than it...
Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn’t much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was...
