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TODAY, JULY 4th IS INDEPENDENCE DAY, MARKING THE FOUNDING OF OUR GREAT NATION.  ENJOY THE PARADES, THE HOT DOGS AND HAMBURGERS, THE TIME SPENT WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS, AND THE FIREWORKS.  BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT FREEDOM IS NOT FREE, NOR IS IT THE NATURAL STATE OF MAN.  IN ORDER TO PROPERLY HONOR OUR FOREBEARS, ANDContinue reading “JULY 4, 2026”

GOOD MORNING FRANK! Drive safely! Have fun! Drink good beer! Ford is still here. He is becoming quite the local. He has gone tubing, hiking, visited the Burwell-Morgan grist mill, and The Locke Store. He even went to the Drive-In Theatre in Stephens City. Tonight we are all going to Bev Byrd’s farm to watchContinue reading “JULY 3, 2026”

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God!  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” –Patrick Henry (1st Governor of Virginia, 1776-1779). On this day in 1776, theContinue reading “JULY 2, 2026”

Ford arrived yesterday. Ford is one of Holland’s friends from SMU. He is a pleasant fellow, hailing originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He had never been to beautiful, bucolic Clarke County, Virginia, and heard that it was cooler than in San Antonio, Texas, where he is spending the Summer. Yesterday, June 30, was a terrible day.Continue reading “JULY 1, 2026”

More thoughts on the ongoing negotiations with Iran. Enjoy! The grand strategy behind the Trump-Vance Iran deal The president has displayed uncommon vision BY:          Alexander B. Gray, The Washington Times (June 26, 2026). The Trump administration’s deal with Iran accomplishes the objectives set by the president at the outset of Operation Epic Fury, and it represents theContinue reading “JUNE 30, 2026”

“People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?” –H.L. Mencken. Iran threatened to halt peace talks in response to the UnitedContinue reading “JUNE 29, 2026”

The Epistle and Collect for today echo a similar theme. In the Collect we pray that: we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal. And in the Epistle to the Romans, S. Paul writes: the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shallContinue reading “JUNE 28, 2026”

“I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state . . . But both theories fail.  Both deny  those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.” –President Ronald W. Reagan. “The Communists areContinue reading “JUNE 27, 2026”

“Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.  A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions.  Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will beContinue reading “JUNE 26, 2026”

“It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.” –H.L. Mencken. The communists are coming! The communists are coming! The communists are coming! And unbelievably, voters are putting them into office. Democrat voters, that is. The 1917Continue reading “JUNE 25, 2026”