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"That particular sense of sacred rapture men say they experience in contemplating nature- I've never received it from nature, only from. Buildings, Skyscrapers. I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline." - Ayn Rand

I'm a big James Bradley fan.  The author of Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys hooked me with the first book, a loving examination of his father's role as one of the participants in flag-raising at Iwo Jima that we are...

I could not believe how many pick-up trucks in the school parking lot were sporting a Johnny Reb bumper tag that read, “Hell, no! We Ain’t Fergettin.’” It was here, in 1960’s Mississippi, that I learned the Civil War was not quite over.

McCarthy pulls out a sheet of paper he claims has the names of 205 people working in the State Department who are all Communists. He tells the audience that these names have all been brought to the attention of the Secretary of State and he knowingly refuses to do anything to address Communist activity in our own State Department.

Join me in bidding adieu to L'Enfant's city.

Children, gather round! No retreat, no surrender; that is Spartan law. And by Spartan law we will stand and fight... and die. A new age has begun. An age of freedom, and all will know, that 300...

A place for the situations in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and throughout the Greater Middle East. Check in to see my full daily updates, and to add your own.

That word doesn't mean what you think it means. But that's okay, it can't be offended by you, because it's dead.

Whether an old fellow virtual traveler or joining me late, come, come, do we have a date?

When I went to find my sister's grave, I didn't expect tot get a lesson in my family's dysfunction.