It is an historical truth that the early-arriving colonists very nearly didn’t survive. The first few years they attempted to farm collectively, in that everything harvested was pooled and shared by all. Anyone in need (or as it turned out, lazy) could take as much as they desired while enjoying a grand old lifestyle at…
Allow me to indulge myself, just a little bit if you don’t mind, and get away from the political scene for a wee while. Five years ago to the day, I posted a piece in my SONday Blog extolling the fact that I had just entered the golden age of ‘Age’ – ie that period…
Uplifting America the deliverer. Winston Spencer Churchill and my grandmother died within months of each other in the first half of 1965, and I remember thinking upon my return to Britain from two years in Jamaica that my generation had seen the passing of what Churchill referred to in one of his wartime speeches, as “History…
In this day and age of a tyrannical administration running roughshod over every facet of the freedom-enhancing Constitution of the United States, it becomes distressingly familiar when witnessing a governor of one of the “several states” overturning yet again, the overwhelming will of WE THE PEOPLE in order to satisfy political intolerance. Tolerating intolerance has…
One of my all-time favorite Winston Churchill quotes is the one regarding T R U T H: The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. And the T R U T H is that this also applies to America’s Godly Heritage. I came across the young…
Herewith my take on the Nelson Mandela story for public consumption; clearly some of my friends think I’ve gone crazy, since I have a background of opinion which varies very differently from what they’ve been force-fed over the years. In a divorce proceeding for instance, there’s always her story, his story, and somewhere in between,…