When Ronald Reagan spoke of America as a “shining city on a hill,” he wasn’t merely offering a line for a campaign rally. He was invoking a moral architecture. The metaphor carried theological undertones and constitutional confidence. America was not just powerful; it was exemplary. A beacon. A sermon in brick and mortar. The world …
Who are your favorite people to be around? My wife is behind me and watching while I answer this question. She has a flip knife and I am not keen on meeting our Lord just now. 😂 Covid helped sharpen this for me and possibly why I am still around and mentally stable. The answer …
General Sani Abacha When Donald J. Trump “won” the 2025 elections—won in the special, metaphysical sense that only Trump can win—America finally met the man it had been dating casually for years: its inner Abacha. This was no ordinary victory. This was not a triumph of ballots but of destiny. Trump did not merely return …
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Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you. My dad's shoes, a size too large. These shoes have taken me to the sky and I touched the heavens
Rev J Jackson What links Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama? Not inheritance. Not patronage. Not the comfortable cushion of establishment approval. It was the voice. Not merely sound waves projected from disciplined diaphragms, but rhetoric as architecture — words arranged with moral symmetry, cadence deployed like a drumline, pauses used as …
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