American media are in awe as the U.K. pays homage to Queen Elizabeth’s historic 70-year reign. Whatever your thoughts about monarchy and its place in modern times, few Americans can sit on the sidelines unimpressed…
On History
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ETERNAL FOOTSTEPS
Skeletal remains discovered this past week in Pompei, the Roman city which had been destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. – nearly 2,000 years ago – remind us of certain eternal truths that…
Revisiting History
As tempting as it is to evaluate history based on post-modern standards, its results ultimately tend to be somewhat spurious. I was listening to the iconic Frank Sinatra last night singing that it was Just…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: WHISTLING DIXIE
The debate over sanitizing our culture of any vestiges of racism, slavery or discrimination in our “painful past” has several communities throughout Florida now banning the word Dixie from monuments, highways or parks. That comes…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: Tyranny of the Majority
When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his prescient tome in 1835, Democracy in America, little did he know how prophetic it would turn out to be for 21st century America…Read More Originally posted for the Orlando…
The Odd Paradoxes of History
If Lincoln did not have Johnson as his Vice Presidential candidate, which was a calculated bet, as the Southern Governor of Tennessee and the sole southern supporter of the Union, he would never have won…
Scientists: A Random Act of Violence
Take a look at the article below. It comes from the Orlando Sentinel, from the Tribune newspapers, identifying the fact that it has now been declared to be settled science that the cause of extinction…
Monotheism & Universal Brotherhood
As I was pouring over the various news clips this morning about Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and so forth, a thought occurred to me. Monotheism took over in Israel when Josiah, the King of…
Black Swan in History
Russ Bredholt, Jr. of Bredholt & Co. sent me some bulleted Book Notes he had produced on a book “The Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb. In light of its relevance in today’s economic reality, I…
Essay: The Industrial Revolution
The concept of organization is certainly not a new one as one looks back over centuries of history. Aristotle, for example, referred to the importance of organization in his discussion of household management in his…