Taking the Boys to DC part one of perhaps 10 or 11 columns to come September 13, 2023 The Reader published the first of what could end up being a series of 11 columns about my ruminations following a week-long sojourn to… Continue Reading
Trump’s hair challenged predecessor August 30, 2023 Word is out from critic Bolton that Trump spends his first hour and a half of the day having cosmeticians build his thinning hair… Continue Reading
4 Books on HHH plus college admissions June 30, 2023 I started a stalled Reader column for the fourth or fifth time since I stopped submitting them a few months ago. It was about… Continue Reading
Condemned to repeat it May 3, 2023 If you are historically, philosophically or Double Jeopardly enough you will recognize the end of the end of my favorite phrase about the study… Continue Reading
Semper Fi January 23, 2023 Harry Welty’s latest snow sculpture recreates Joe Rosenthal’s famous WWII photo of the Marines raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima. My… Continue Reading
Semper Fi January 13, 2023 My simplified version of the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. Continue Reading
The Big Lie November 16, 2022 I talked about the book The Oppermans the day before the election. I have been reading it to Claudia and today I finished the… Continue Reading
Grim and Bear it. November 8, 2022 We walked over to the UCC church a few blocks away to cast our votes this morning and were joined by neighbors heading the… Continue Reading
Two Bibles and more October 15, 2022 After my foray into Native American history I am going to change course. Claudia is now reading Black Elk Speaks and we were chatting… Continue Reading
History’s Sausages October 15, 2022 Carl von Clausewitz My French pen pal really liked this column which begins: “A couple decades ago when Duluth was about to disinter the… Continue Reading
Techumseh October 6, 2022 Having finished my second book on native american history in the last month I’m starting two new books. I’ll start Peter Cozzens book Techumseh… Continue Reading
From the Pottawattamie death trail to the 1966 trail of destruction in Topeka, Kansas October 5, 2022 I’ve finished my third book this month about the expulsion of Indians. It was based on a bill that only passed with a margin… Continue Reading
The lucky charm, the wink and the next best thing September 29, 2022 I have my fingers crossed that I will get the best night’s sleep tonight that I’ve gotten in about 3 weeks. That’s because I… Continue Reading
Davenport September 25, 2022 In the Afterward of Scott Berg’s excellent book 38 Nooses Abe Lincoln makes an appearance as he did in the book’s introduction. They make… Continue Reading
Teepees, Books and French September 22, 2022 It will either be Covid or history books that shelves my plans to canvass for Jen Schultz over the next couple weeks. The typhoid… Continue Reading
And as I looked for Pakistan I found a post helping to explain . . . September 3, 2022 … what was on my mind when I filed for Congress having given up on the Republican Party. https://lincolndemocrat.com/?p=543 Continue Reading
I can’t show you what was in the 48 empty “classified” folders at Mara Lago but….. September 3, 2022 …I can thumb through the illustration of what was found. Thank you New York Times: Continue Reading
To be or not to bees August 23, 2022 I can’t vouch for Zenger where this story was reported but I have little doubt it is so important that it is all but… Continue Reading
A simple map I like August 23, 2022 This was such a simple way to show how most maps distort the Earth especially the common Mercator projection. For years cartographers have tried… Continue Reading
Looking back to see the future – Now including pics August 19, 2022 I have been so preoccupied with planning a run for Congress and learning French that I have just gone through one of my longest… Continue Reading