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Band of Giants is a book about great characters who overcame, what seems in retrospect, nearly insurmountable odds to beat the world's foremost military and naval power. In the space of a short few hundred pages author Jack Kelly takes the reader through the War of Independence from start to finish, lingering here and there to illuminate some of the fantastic characters who achieved the seemingly impossible. Kelly points out that men like Hamilton, Lafayette, Henry Knox, Anthony Wayne, and Nathaniel Greene, to name a few, "... had fought with the intensity of youth. They had taken the risks that come easily to the young, had seen with the clarity of youth, had dreamed the dreams of youth. They beheld the phantasmagoria of possibilities that is visible only to the young. They had persevered, they had won. They were, as Lafayette had long ago marveled, "a band of giants.""   Read the rest of this entry »

A few years ago, my wife and I went to Santa Fe and had the opportunity to see the miraculous staircase in the Loretto Chapel.  This is definitely an incredible thing.

This chapel served as a convent and when completed …

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Thomas Jefferson referred to his opponent, John Adams as a, ... hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman. Adams was none of these things as any one who has read history knows.   Read the rest of this entry »

While the president’s wife frets that school lunches are not healthy enough for the nation’s children, neither she nor the president are concerned about a much more serious threat to the health of the nation’s children and, for that matter, adults, as well.   Read the rest of this entry »

This was just another one of those fun things to post on a Saturday.   Read the rest of this entry »

Just in case you haven’t heard, the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, has set new standards for government ineptitude. A website that works about as often (and as well) as my brother-in-law, insurance companies forced to drop customers faster than the Food Network dumped Paula Deen, and presidential guaranties as worthless as, well, presidential guaranties. All of this adds up to President Obama’s approval ratings nose diving to an all-time low of 37%. Further, only 7% of Americans believe the Affordable Care Act is working well and requires no changes. For perspective, that is less than the 9% of Americans who believe Milli Vanilli should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.   Read the rest of this entry »

A hyperbolic needle can be defined as an insult laced barb, dripping in hyperbole with the intent to inject maximum opprobrium upon its intended target. Recently, we have witnessed several hyperbolic needles tossed out so freely by the Democrats you’d …

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Not only are big communications firms like AT&T cheerfully being complicit in assisting the government in whatever it wants - privacy concerns be damned - but they are explicitly amortizing the charges for doing so across all their customers.   Read the rest of this entry »

President George Bush, his wife Laura and 20 US volunteers helped paint and refurbish the Mosi-oa-Tunya Clinic in Zambia, which was in pretty bad shape. This isn't Mr. Bush's first visit to Zambia for humanitarian purposes   Read the rest of this entry »

On Wednesday Eric Holder testified before Congress about the Justice Department’s wiretapping of Associated Press reporters’ phones. I’m not sure “testify” is the proper term. Holder showed up, didn’t say anything for four hours and called it a day. He has recused himself from any further involvement in the whole wiretapping business. Not that he actually has that whole recusing business in writing or anything, or if he does, the document is in the same place his Fast and Furious records are kept. And those are locked up tighter than the maker of that crummy Islamic video. This from “The Most Transparent Administration in History.” Yes, as transparent as a milkshake.   Read the rest of this entry »