One of the most famous queens in history ended a string of “Merger and Acquisition” deals by using the asp. Her name was Cleopatra. She was of Greek heritage and as a teenager married her brother (old dynastic custom). However, bickering over whom ‘mom liked best’ led to civil war in Egyptian. At a […]
American Dream
As an author I’m learning my industry is not much different than it was in 1507. Because some 60 years after the discovery of movable type, curiosity about sea voyages of the previous two decades was escalating and an enterprising author named Martin Waldseemuller, decided to publish rudimentary maps of the new lands reached […]
Powerful forces are up in arms about Donald Trump. The media calls him dangerous. Establishment political operatives say he has no respect for the rules. Yet the nation hearkens to a seemingly new promise of American greatness. However American greatness has always been present! It wells up from old fashioned ethics that empower […]
American politics is often as misrepresented as American history. All school children know about “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” but few realize most of what they were told was incorrect. Revere was not a volunteer. He didn’t ride alone. He never finished the ride and he didn’t hang any lanterns […]
Noted author and scholar R.R. Reno said, “From the end of the Civil War until the 1960s, the wealthiest, best educated, and most powerful Americans remained largely loyal to Christianity (but) that’s changed…” He was not alone in arguing that material attainment and ethics are often mutually exclusive. Growing rich, is demonstrably under attack, […]