What do we do now?
While I was healing from shoulder surgery, it seemed as if the rest of the country was ripping open its wounds and pouring caustic liquid into them to inflict as much pain as possible. I don’t...
View ArticleLooking for the Exit
One of the benefits of convalescing after surgery is that you have a lot of time to think. Those of you who have followed me for any length of time know that I’ve had more surgeries in the past two...
View ArticleIs America An Inherently Racist Nation?
Note: This article is based on a lecture I gave on Thursday, August 8, 2013, to the Public Policy Lawyering class (LAW 760) at the Liberty University School of Law. Ken Blackwell, a prominent...
View ArticleGiving Thanks for All Things
As we were preparing the house for our Thanksgiving guests yesterday, I finally put away the walker and wheelchair I’ve had since I came home from the rehabilitation center on August 13th. It was a...
View ArticleAuthor Q&A: Ron Miller
Author’s Note: The following is the unedited version of an interview I gave to Liberty University Press. The official version can be found here. Feb. 18, 2014 Black History Month is a reminder to...
View ArticleWhat is Liberty, Anyway?
Note: This article was initially published in the April 2011 edition of Tea Party Review. If I had to choose one word that defines the foundation, motivation and objective of the Tea Party movement, it...
View ArticleMy problem with Ferguson
Earlier this week, Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder, visiting the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri after days of unrest following the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a...
View ArticleFacebook and the End of Thought
One of the more pervasive stories on the Internet over the past few weeks involves Facebook Messenger, a seemingly innocuous smartphone “app” – to old-timers like me, it’s an application, but we’ll go...
View ArticlePersonal Reflections on 9/11
Note: I was appointed to the Bush Administration in 2001 as the chief information officer (CIO) for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and, subsequently, I served with the Homeland Security...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Constant
Note: This is the first chapter of a book I’m working on which addresses the three essential elements in the equation which has determined the success of the American constitutional republic for 227...
View ArticleDon’t confuse me with the facts
“The people at Politifact are terrified of being considered partisan if they acknowledge the clear fact that there’s a lot more lying on one side of the political divide than on the other…So they’ve...
View ArticleStealing Work from American Hands
Note: An edited version of this article, titled “Obama Takes Jobs From Blacks And Gives Them To Immigrants“, was published on the Investors Business Daily website, Investors.com, on October 2, 2014....
View ArticleFierce Convictions – A Book Review
When I first heard that my friend and Liberty University colleague, Karen Swallow Prior, was writing her second book, a biography chronicling the life of noted British writer, educator and social...
View ArticleKeep Calm and Carry On
Another election night in America is in the books, and it’s safe to say the American people shook things up a bit, did they not? The United States Senate is securely in the hands of the Republican...
View ArticleRemembering the Wall
In 1985, as a young 1st lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, I went on a “familiarization tour” of Berlin with my commanding officer and several of the members of our unit, an intelligence detachment...
View ArticleImmigration and the End of Trust
[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other–that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel...
View ArticleWill God be Watching the Super Bowl?
The Super Bowl, arguably the biggest sports spectacle on the planet, will be played on Sunday, and the football game will actually be a relief from the two weeks of buildup that preceded it. While...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Worldview? – A Book Review
Do you know why you believe what you believe? It sounds like an odd question on the surface, but it actually goes to the heart of a book by Dr. James N. Anderson, What’s Your Worldview?: An Interactive...
View ArticleThe Battle of Selma, 2015
The 50th anniversary commemoration of the march on Selma, a watershed moment in the civil rights movement, has come and gone and, in my opinion, left debris in its wake like a summer thunderstorm. It’s...
View ArticleThe Time That’s Left
What will you do with the time that’s left Will you live it all with no regret? Will they say that you loved till your final breath? What will you do with the time that’s left? ~ Mark Schultz, “The...
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