Books Professors Made Me Read: Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris

Books Professors Made Me Read: Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris | Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. By Richard Brookhiser (New York: Free Press [Division of Simon…

It’s About the Next Black President

It’s About the Next Black President | “Look, when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball, black people didn’t get one at-bat and were done.” ~…

Crisis Management? (OPINION)

Crisis Management? (OPINION) | Jon Favreau has a piece in The Daily Beast that, if I read it correctly, is meant to put all…

Books Professors Made Me Read: Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris

Books Professors Made Me Read: Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris

| Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. By Richard Brookhiser (New York: Free Press [Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.] 2003).  ISBN: 0-7432-5602-6 This is the next book overview in a series of works read as a graduate student of history.  The…

Sports Community Shout Out: Tampa Bay Rays (VIDEO)

Sports Community Shout Out: Tampa Bay Rays (VIDEO)

| Nine year old Alayna Adams thought she was throwing out the first pitch of a Tampa Bay Rays game on behalf of the USO.  She did not pay attention to the Tampa Bay Rays catcher who patiently waited.  What she did not know was the…

It Just has to Stop – We Must Unite in Times of Tragedy

It Just has to Stop – We Must Unite in Times of Tragedy

| Coverage of the aftermath of a tornado that wiped out Moore, Oklahoma has been horrific.  My heart goes out to everyone who lost a child, a home, and a large part of their community.  There simply are no words to describe how a tragedy of this…

It’s Time for the Democrats to Fight Back

It’s Time for the Democrats to Fight Back

| 5/10 ~ Calling the deadly attack in Benghazi the “most egregious cover-up in American history,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) predicted Thursday that President Barack Obama will soon face calls of impeachment. “Of all the great cover-ups in history — the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Watergate and…