Samson's Jawbone

In June of 2008 I stood in the break room at my work with a couple of co-workers speculating who Senator John Mc Cain's Vice Presidential choice would be after he got the Republican nomination. Various names were suggested with good reason: Huckabee, Romney, Thompson, Leibermann. Some people looked askance at me and one even openly laughed when I said, "The only person who is able to deliver a constituency to him he doesn't all ready have is Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. I am certain she will be the nominee." (We now know this was before Mc Cain had formally interviewed her for the role). A few months later after Mc Cain made the announcement that surprised the media one of these people walked over to my desk and said, "how did you know?" I said, I had no inside information but was a student of history and politics. There are some things that as a student of history I know to be true. One of those is that President Barak Obama has done so much damage to ou...

Every parent goes through moments of disappointment as well as Pride. Kids have their good moment and their bad. One of the proudest parenting moment for my wife and me came when our son recently graduated from the United States Marine Corps boot camp. As our son said farewell to his drill sargeant we were elated to here his words of acclaim for our son. Over the 13 weeks of my son's boot camp experience we have the occasion to tell many people what he is doing. I must admit I have been surprised at the rather qualified reaction we have received from everyone (except those who have or have recently had a family member who served), their has alway been an apprehensive reaction. One friend even said to me, "how could you let your son, do that." Besides the fact that he is 20 years old and can do what he wants, the ocasional apprehension about the danger he may face in combat is eclipsed by the pride I have the my son decided to serve. I was never in the military, but I am ...