Chairman’s Report 16 – The China Menace
Zhongguo, the Chinese name for China, means “middle kingdom.” For millennia, China was the largest and most powerful nation in East Asia. Surrounding states would visit the Chinese emperor, the “Son of Heaven,” to pay [...]
Chairman’s Report 15 – Giving Thanks for Religious Freedom
The Bill of Rights, Article 1 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right [...]
Chairman’s Report 14 – Veteran’s Day
In 1998, I was a young major commanding the US Army health clinic in Schweinfurt, Germany. It was the middle of a morning of patient care, and I was a little ahead of schedule. An [...]
Chairman’s Report 13 – Was 6 January 2021 an Insurrection?
Americans are told that the right-wing demonstration and riot on 6 Jan 2021 was an insurrection. Was it? Merriam-Webster defines an insurrection as “a usually violent attempt to take control of a government.[1]” US Legal [...]
Chairman’s Report 12 – How to Get Involved in the West Virginia Republican Party
I often receive emails, calls, or in person inquiries from people who want to get involved in the WV GOP. Many of those who ask need to stay home or in their community. Some can [...]
Chairman’s Report 11 – 911 Remembrance
“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” On 11 September 2001, 19 Muslim terrorists [...]
Chairman’s Report 10 – Afghanistan
Few of us who lived on 11 September 2001 will never forget that day. We gazed in disbelief at video footage of airliners flying into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Many of my [...]
Chairman’s Report 9 – Save Girls Sports
On 21 July, Judge Joseph Goodwin, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, granted a preliminary injunction against West Virginia’s Save Girls Sports Act, ruling that a middle school [...]
Chairman’s Report – Critical Race Theory
America is more divided over race than it has been since the Civil War. Our nation has leapt forward in racial equality since Union fought Confederate. Slavery is gone. Americans of both sexes and all [...]
Chairman’s Report – Election Integrity
On 27 May I had the privilege of joining Kandice Nuzum and the Marion County Republicans for a talk given by the WV Secretary of State Mac Warner on election integrity. While at the Memorial [...]
Chairman’s Report – Memorial Day
In the spring of 2004, the Chaplain approached me one morning in the Task Force First Armored Division Headquarters at the Baghdad International Airport. We were approaching the end of our unit’s fifteen-month deployment, and [...]
Chairman’s Report – Infrastructure
In March 2021, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released its annual report on infrastructure in the United States. The report gave the US an overall grade of C-, noting:[1] There is a break [...]