SYMBOLS Emma Lazarus wrote: “Mother of Exiles glows worldwide welcome Keep ancient lands your storied pomp Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The […]

THE BIG APPLE Cities, especially big cities, run on political engines…not just on the politics of government but on the politics of people, of industries, of power. It is that […]

Part Two: Origin ESSENCE If one has been fortunate enough to get a decent education in it, history teaches us that the great nation-states of centuries past -the Greco-Roman Empires, […]

Part One: Decline NATIONAL POLITICS There is no better example of America’s precipitous decline than to look at our political parties and the way the government we expected them to […]

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE… In a World in which young men use AK15 weapons to murder innocent school children, big-city gangs fill the night with gunfire, mindless attacks on […]

And the Lord God Founding Fathers of our nation looked at what they had done. And it was good. Representing the farmers, planters, businessmen of the thirteen colonies, they had […]