One of the many benefits of a (third) career as a college professor is being able to decide what to do during the summer months. One can teach during a short summer term and get paid for that, or one can opt not to teach and not get paid for that. Since there are considerably […]
This week I continue the theme that most of life’s issues are “non-respecter of person issues.” In particular, I want to discuss being a dad vs. being a father. This is part-two of a four-part series on Fatherhood. I believe there is a vast difference between being a dad, and being a father. There are […]
One of my favorite politicians of a generation ago was Alan Simpson, the Republican Senator from Wyoming. Like all public figures, sometimes he said things and voted in a way that I wish were different, and at other times he seemed to me to be spot on. One statement of his that bears repeating in […]
I have the privilege of sitting on a porch my great-grandfather sat on as our republic prepared for WWI. The same porch my grandfather sat on as he lived through the depression and our republic prepared for WWII. The same porch my father sat on as he worked through the issues of the Cold War. […]
This week’s column follows up on two columns from the May issues of The Edgefield Advertiser. The first topic is easy to describe: a correction from last week’s article about the June 14th Primary election. I mentioned that every registered voter may vote in that election, regardless of political party affiliation, and that there is […]
This week is the 72nd anniversary of the Western Allies Invasion of Normandy. According to The National WWII Museum, total military dead from WWII is over 15 million. Civilian dead estimates are 45 million. Over 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed during the Normandy invasion. An extremely heavy price was paid for the liberty achieved for […]
I hope that the readers of The Edgefield Advertiser are enjoying the political columns on this page and are thinking about the issues that Scott Cooper and I have been bringing up. Our perspectives are different, which is why the Editor has invited us both to write. One issue we have both written about is […]
I want to continue my theme that most of life’s issues are “non-respecter of person issues. When I reflect on creation, one of the things we often don’t think about is that one of the first things God did after creating man was to give him a job: “Then the Lord God took the man […]
Readers who follow the news will recognize that we as a society have been of several minds about what to do about refugees in America. To some, political refugees might be terrorists – that is, hidden among several thousand refugees from Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries might be individuals who are sham refugees; they […]
For much of my life, Memorial Day has reminded me of those who fought and died to preserve freedom in the generations of my parents, and grandparents. Growing up, most of the focus was on those who fought overseas in World Wars I and II, Korea and Viet Nam. We continue to honor these men […]