Author Archives
Lineman, Electrician, Industrial Control technician, Staking Engineer, Inspector, Quality Assurance Manager, Chief Operations Officer
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Safe or Productive?
I’m an electrician, and a power lineman. It’s what I always wanted to be. If you’d like proof, there are family movies of me at four years old, in company jacket and hard hat, pantomiming the motions of climbing a pole on hooks…. Read More ›
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Defending the Dream
You know, as do I, that America has never been a pile of rocks and dirt between the oceans. Whether your ancestors came over the Bering land bridge time out of memory ago, came on the Mayflower, came to escape starvation in Ireland to… Read More ›
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Americans and British, Two Views of the Same Problem
The other day we were discussing the terrorism incident in London this week over at Jess’s Watchtower . Our normal complement there on this type of subject is about half-American and half British and we’ve become very good friends, who don’t pull punches . In… Read More ›
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Recessionals, Swivel Eyed Loons, Tea Parties And Summer Soldiers
My friend, and Jessica’s co-author Chalcedon451 posted this morning in a somber mood. I suspect I know the proximate cause, and have no reason to disagree. His post is titled Recessional? I find it a very good post, and suspect I understand… Read More ›
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Leviathan: Unguided and Out of Control
I’m going to cut Barack Obama a bit of slack here. Surprised? Don’t be, he’s not going to thank me for it. You see Obama reminds me of every person I’ve ever known who got a job he hadn’t earned and had no conception of how… Read More ›
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Duty, Honor, and Personal Responsibility
I’m going to start this morning with a couple of paragraphs from Jessica’s last two posts because they are exactly on point to where we are going today. This was not what I was going to write, maybe later, I… Read More ›
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Of Wasps, and White Guilt
Sometimes, if you’re around my blog much, you may think you’ve been misdirected and have gotten to the home of The Kipling Society. You haven’t, but he makes some thing very clear, doesn’t he. Around here, a good bit of pride… Read More ›
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One in Custody, One Dead
Random Thoughts and Reflections on Boston First off the top of my head and apparently the same thought occurred to Amy Lutz writing on The College Conservative When did we stop acknowledging evil and try to justify or explain it instead? I find… Read More ›
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Kipling: And Current Events
Send forth the best ye breed– Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild– Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. Take up the White Man’s burden–… Read More ›
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The Lady Was Not For Turning:
and She Never Did I’ve always been a proponent of the Great Alliance since I started reading the history of World War II as a child, and I’ve never had cause to rethink my beliefs. And yes, sometimes we Americans… Read More ›
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Conservative ?
Are you a conservative? Good, you’re amongst friends here. I’m a high church Lutheran, very conservative politically, firmly opposed to crony-capitalism, pro-life. In fact I’m all three of the legs, small government, fiscal conservative, and a social conservative. What do… Read More ›
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Railroad Boom
This is from The Worden Report. My primary interest here is the report that the railroads are making huge capacity improvements. if you watch their advertising you already know the astounding efficiency of transporting freight via the railroad. The thing is with modern… Read More ›
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Syria
When I was young there was a story about a Polish colonel who was asked what he would do if his regiment got caught between the German and Russian armies. His answer was, “Attack in both directions and die gloriously“. That pretty… Read More ›
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Of Mutiny And Education
Growing up one of my favorite books was The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. He wrote it shortly after the Second World War and it was pretty much his first best-seller. It tells the story of Willie Keith a pampered young man, and a bit… Read More ›
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All The Days Of My Life: A Chastity Tale
I’m going to wade in here where no man should dare tread but, it’s important and this is a very good article. Does chastity matter anymore? It does and in several ways that Sarah and I completely agree on. Here’s… Read More ›
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Sea Lines of Communication: Updated
[Admin note: My article on sea lines of communication is one of the perennial favorites on my site, and so as Obama plays sequestration politics with our military I thought it would be worthwhile to update it, as our defenses... Read More ›
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Satan, Our Churches, And The Battle To Come
“St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God,… Read More ›
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Health Care: Stafford and Obamacare
In an earlier article on our site, my co-author Jessica linked to a story in the UK Telegraph on the Stafford Scandal. If you haven’t read it, you should, it’s our future just as it’s Britain’s present. I guarantee that… Read More ›
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Loyaulte me lie
[Author's note: I fell in love with English history reading about the Plantagenets when I was a kid. From Henry of Anjou, grabbing the divorced former Queen of France, and one of the most beautiful, and headstrong, women in Christendom, shortly before he became Henry II... Read More ›
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God, America, And The Pilgrim
Jess touched on something important yesterday, in her article on God, Guns, and America. Indeed many did return to England, especially in the early years. America was a hard place, and especially in Plymouth Plantation, they made it even worse. For the… Read More ›
