Born June 4, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1974 in both UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team) and SEAL Team Two. Worked as a commercial diver in the waters off of Scotland, India, and the United States. Worked overseas in the Merchant Marines. While attending the University of South Florida as a journalism student in 1998 was presented with the “Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii AEJMC Research in Journalism Ethics Award,” 1st place undergraduate division. (The annual contest was set up by Carol Burnett with money she won from successfully suing a national newspaper for libel). Awarded US Army, US Navy, South African, and Russian jump wings. Graduate of NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School, 1970). Member of Mensa, China Post #1, and lifetime member of the NRA and UDT/SEAL Association.
Harvard, Homosexuals, and Far Left Fabians
"No matter what phase of left-wing infiltration we study, be it in government, in information media, in foundations, in labor unions...the tracks lead inevitably to Harvard University." -- Zygmund Dobbs "Keynes at Harvard" “I hope that when we pass this legislation that we will understand that we are doing great damage, and we could possibly – and probably – as the Commandant of the Marine Corps said … harm the battle effectiveness that is so vital to the survival of our young men and women in the military." -- Senator John McCain on repealing DADT (Don't Ask Don't Tell)- Friday, January 7, 2011
The brave things in the old tales and songs...I used to think that they were things that the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for.... But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually.... I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those who just went on -- and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. ...I wonder what sort of tale we've fallen into? -- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) "The Two Towers"
"Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute." --Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) author of "The Hero With a Thousand Faces"
"Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?" -- Gimli the dwarf (From the movie "The Return of the King")
"[Future generations] you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." -- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Sixth President of the United States of America
"The [Revolutionary] war was a longer, far more arduous, and more painful struggle than later generations would understand or sufficiently appreciate." -- David McCullough "1776"
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -- George Washington (1732-1799) 1st President of the United States of America
The frigid scene by the Delaware river was illuminated by flickering camp-fires, a few lanterns, and a scattering of storm-tossed torch-light.
Hola! Yo no estoy en España! Sorry, let me try that again. Hello! I am not in Spain!
Following my short article on anarchy, in which I mentioned "cyber anarchy," some computer-hacking # (or #) wiped my reader emails, and sent my readers/friends a spurious email claiming that I was stranded in Valencia, Spain, and in dire need of mucho dinero.
First of all, I am not in Spain. Second, if I was, I wouldn't lose my wallet, and third, I would never hit my readers up for money using such atrocious English. For example: "I misplaced my wallet and other valuables on my way to the hotel I lodged." Puh-leeze -- give me a little credit.
"The kingdom of God [Heaven] is within you."
-- Jesus
"I danced in the morning when the world had begun.
And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun.
I came down from heaven and I danced on the Earth.
At Bethlehem I had my birth."
Sydney Carter (1915-2004) "Lord of the Dance"
"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens...and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.... The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." --John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) From "Economic Consequences of the Peace" 1920
"I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance. To put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes...." -- George Soros from "The Alchemy of Finance" 1987
"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now." 
"In terms of the number and splendor of its churches and monasteries, its vast scholarship and dazzling spirituality, Iraq was through the late Middle Ages at least as much a cultural and spiritual heartland of Christianity as was France or Germany, or indeed Ireland."
Philip Jenkins from "The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia -- and How It Died"