Tag Archives: Lincoln
Soviet dictator Joe Stalin took extreme measures to re-write history. He was a paranoid ruler and killed people that he saw as rivals, even those who had supported him. Then in an effort to remove them from history, he would have their images removed from photos.1 Another glaring example of an effort to re-write history is the use of the terms C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before Common Era); rather than B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Latin for the Year…..
I was listening to talk radio on my way to work earlier this week when I heard someone talking about people shopping on Thanksgiving. He said that people would shop on Thanksgiving but not on Christmas or Easter because “Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday.” Really? The Psalms over and over implore us to give thanks to the Lord. Psalm 100 is a particular brief Psalm giving thanks and praise to God as our Creator. Psalm 100:3-4 states “Know ye…..
There are several reasons why we lost the Vietnam War. There is a legitimate discussion about getting ourselves into the war in the first place. During the Korean War, we would push up into North Korea, putting the Communists on the defensive; whereas the Vietnam War was fought more defensively. The Vietnamese had a history of being treated badly by foreigners – the Chinese, the French, and the Japanese. And to many Vietnamese who did not know about political-economic systems,…..