A New Banner

I read earlier this week that the Memphis, TN city council has voted unanimously to exhume and move the bodies of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife based on his involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. This comes during a time of the most media coverage I can recall the short-lived Confederacy ever enjoying in my lifetime....

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Why Did Brian Williams Lie to Us?

There's been a lot of talk this week about Brian Williams and his habitual embellishment of events. He was called out on a lie about being shot down in Iraq which led to being called out on more "misremembering" of events he was involved in. This led to public outcry, then to public mockery, and ultimately to Mr. Williams' suspension from NBC Nightly News. It is not too much for us to expect "just the facts" from a newsman. That, after all,...

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To Reflect and Resolve

As we enter 2015, I can’t help but reflect on 1915. It was the year Alexander Graham Bell made a phone call from New York to his friend Thomas Watson in San Francisco, the first phone call across the continent. It was the year Edward Stone became the first US soldier to die in WWI. It was the year McCrae published In Flander's Fields. It was the year war rose to a terrifying new level with the first use of poison gas. It was the year the...

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