[v=hfLsSg9wZlE] Love him or hate him, you don’t know Barack Obama. Analyst Dinesh D’Souza, an immigrant from India and contemporary of the President, has taken the time to examine Obama as a person, his background and his ideology, in his new book, Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream. A documentary movie based on the book, […]
Remarks for Memorial Day
Remarks for Slayton, Minnesota, Memorial Day Service 2012 -John C. Shepard Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. President Abraham Lincoln spoke these words in the Autumn of 1863, on the battlefield […]
Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For
Cross-posted from JohnScout: It may be one of the worst kept secrets in modern politics, but before Texas Gov. Rick Perry throws his hat in the Presidential ring and this topic gets all political on us, I wanted to say a few words about a book he wrote. In 2008, Perry published a semi-autobiographical commentary […]
Into (and out of) the (Social Media) Wild
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, […]
