Stump Speeches

On April 16th, 2007 there was a shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech that claimed the lives of 32 people.  At the time, I was the V...

For several years, son #1 has been trying to get me to read his favorite novel, The Once and Future King .  I finally picked it up a couple...

Last year Jonathan Foreman wrote another declaration of independence (of sorts): When success is equated with excess The ambition for excess...

231 years ago, Thomas Jefferson penned these words: "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve...

Memorial Day weekend offers the opportunity to display some of the tangled web of thoughts and feelings I have regarding the land of the fre...