There’s a name for trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different result, thanks to Albert Einstein. It’s called insanity.And sadly, we’re once again witnessing the Israeli government doing just that. Israel badly needs to face reality Anyone who still thinks there’s any life in the so [Read More]
(reposted by request) Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass.Let me work. – Carl Sandburg ; One hundred and fifty five years ago today, brave men fought in and around a small town in Pennsylvania to determine [Read More]
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass.Let me work. – Carl Sandburg One hundred and fifty five years ago today, brave men fought in and around a small town called Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to determine whether the [Read More]
It’s Memorial Day…let us all never forget the men and women who gave their lives so that we might enjoy ours in freedom: My thanks to Laura Rambeau Lee for the above… And a reminder…many of our fallen heroes never made it home, but lie in the foreign lands where [Read More]
Every Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question: Is It Time To Forget about the Holocaust? Bookworm Room: Holocaust Memorial Day is a perfect example of [Read More]
American Minute by William Federer “O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!” wrote astronomer Johannes Kepler in The Harmonies of the World, 1619. Johannes Kepler was born DECEMBER 27, 1571. An attack of smallpox when he was four years old left Johannes Kepler with crippled hands and [Read More]
American Minute by William J. Federer Many famous composers wrote greatly loved Christmas music. In 1741, George Frideric Handel wrote his oratorio Messiah. In 1734, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Christmas Oratorio. Twenty years after composer Johann Sebastian Bach died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, and baptized [Read More]
Thanksgiving is upon us, our unique North American Holiday (yes, our Canadian friends celebrate it too, but on a different day a month earlier). Oh, I almost forgot. It’s also celebrated ( and properly so) as a national holiday in the Caribbean Republic of Grenada, every year on October 25. [Read More]
As a ‘recognition’ of the centennial of the issuing of the Balfour Declaration (November 2nd, 1917) the notoriously anti-Israel UK Guardian decided to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas an op-ed entitled “Britain must atone for the Balfour declaration – and 100 years of suffering” (no link,but you can find it [Read More]
HBO is in trouble for producing “Confederate,” an alternate history in which the South won the war. The irony is that HBO and its foes are both wrong. (Wolf Howling wrote this post.) If you study early America, you will find that racism did not pop up overnight during the [Read More]
An amusing and informative piece from the Atlantic on how ancient DNA tells the story of cats, their dispersal worldwide and ummm, dominance! By Sarah Zhang Sometime around the invention of agriculture, the cats came crawling. It was mice and rats, probably, that attracted the wild felines. The rats came [Read More]
Today is the anniversary of a modern miracle, the Israeli victory of the Six Day War, מלחמת ששת הימים, or Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim in Hebrew. It saw an outnumbered Israel beat back an attempt at destruction and genocide, reunite Jerusalem, bring the strategic Golan and the historic Jewish homelands [Read More]
According to Israel’s Hebrew calendar, today marks the Jubilee celebration of Israel’s Six Day War and the liberation of Jerusalem. Take a good look at the three men standing there, along with Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, Dr. Yitzhak Yifat, Tzion Karasenti and Chaim Oshri. they took a tour [Read More]
Dr. Ben Carson came under quite a bit of fire last month for remarks he made calling slaves immigrants while speaking to Housing and Urban Development employees Monday about his vision for the department’s future: “That’s what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity,” Carson said, speaking about [Read More]
A tribute to a progressive pioneer whose achievements and philosophy still resonate with progressives today. [Read More]
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