Personal riffs on current events, opinion, popular culture, American history and faith-based issues.
Every significant episode of history has a watershed moment. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War it was “the shot heard round the world” at Lexington and Concord. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream Speech” defined the Civil Rights era. Ronald Reagan’s entreaty to Gorbachev: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear …
Watching the history-challenged millennials going mano to metal with the Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina recently was like watching open auditions for MTV’s old show, Jackass. Remarkably, these clueless posers arrogantly posed for videos and selfies after joyously whooping up on an inanimate hunk of metal. The Durham County Sheriff’s Department …
