Twenty years later, it’s a near certainty that we are all within 6 degrees of separation from one of the 2,977 Americans who tragically lost their lives this day. We have met perhaps a cousin of someone lost who now works in our company, a church member’s granddaughter who never met her grandfather, someone’s …

The Cost of Freedom Freedom isn’t free. As Americans, that’s a well-understood concept. Our freedoms come at a cost - we have to work for it, fight for it and, yes, sometimes some have died to preserve those freedoms for their countrymen, for their posterity. But I think we fail, especially of late, to appreciate the …

Four-of-a-kind won’t cut it We have six presidents. When Joseph Biden took the Oath of Office on January 20, 2021, the United States officially had one current president, and five living former presidents (Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter). But having so many living presidents …

It’s been twenty years, but could it really be true this time? It’s been a literal score since this war began, and there are now some fighting in it who weren’t alive when it did. It will have scarred two generations by the time it is finally over. And that day might actually be within reach. Of course, as with any …

The New World Order This QAnon phenomenon is remarkably disconcerting, and some of the symbolism that made its way into the Capitol is an example of how this is a unifying force for our most extreme ideologies, and that it has forced its way into our normal discourse. It is even more concerning that while those that …