There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.