He is Risen!
He is risen! He is risen indeed! The alarm went off at 3 AM. Could we manage to rouse five tired children and make it to the sunrise service at the Grand Canyon 90...
Yearly Archive: 2005
Run Cheri, Run!
With the news this morning that Terri Schiavo is dying and that the appeal to the Supreme Court has failed, we should be reminded that we need good people in our government. My...
The Culture and Carlsbad Caverns
No matter how high you fly — or how deep underground — the tectonic clash in our culture appears in the strangest places. . . One of our favorite stops on this grand Western...
It’s Hyperalimentation, not Hyperventilation
There in the plexiglass display case, in Mesa Verde National Park are two crude crutches from our stone-age past. We spent yesterday exploring the cliff dwellings of pre-historic Pueblo Indians — they built their...
Baseball or Life? Hmmm, Hard Call . . .
Here’s David Broder on Meet the Press yesterday on why Congress should not intervene in the Terri Schiavo case (her husband has had her feeding tube removed even though her parents have been fighting...
Meet the People, Mr. Brownstein
On yesterday’s Meet the Press, the roundtable discussed Congressional attempts to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case (just in case: the young Florida woman, who is brain-damaged, whose husband has succeeded in getting the...
Remember the Alamo
The version of the Alamo story that I knew prior to visiting the mission still standing in San Antonio, involved a vague idea that some Texans died defending a fort against a Mexican army....
Learning from the men who know how to win
From the Army Ranger Field Manual: 1-3. Fundamentals of ranger operations. a. The success of an operation by a ranger unit depends on the observance of the fundamentals of the US Army’s AirLand Battle...
Austin Art Museum Update
I’ve heard from the Executive Director of the Austin Art Museum, Dana Friis-Hansen, who wrote to say she is sending the refund for our entry fees, and apologized quite nicely for the “bad experience”...
Memo to Condi Rice
There are few issues in politics which inspire greater emotion than abortion. And Condi Rice put herself right (or wrong as the case may be) in the fray by telling the Washington Times earlier...
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