personal responsibility
Risk-Taking and Progress
“Progressive” America teaches false lessons, does not understand the real meaning of “progress.” Happiness requires risk-taking. We might as well...
Colin Powell’s Rule
A confession. Every morning we sat together, many afternoons – on US soil and elsewhere. He had been Ronald Reagan’s...
Reagan’s Spirit and Being Brave
Attitude can be everything. It can define you, inspire you, deplete you, revive you. Sometimes I wonder what it must...
Progressives, Freedom, and Leadership
What is leadership? In a crisis, it is not doing for others what they must do, but understanding what needs...
Theodore Roosevelt’s “Strenuous Life”
In 1899, a bold, unbridled New Yorker, half cowboy, half soldier, at once Harvard-educated but a former police commissioner, began...
Owe Back, Pay Forward
We all owe back, so pay forward. After the Reagan White House, active duty, founding a company to support law...
Simple Grit
Tom was hard to work for, but “in the day,” we were grateful to have work, leaned in and learned,...
Mental Toughness – American Trait
A hardworking, young conservative in her 20s remarked recently that the problem with her peer group was an “absence of...
This Time of Year
Growing up, we had no electric heat, used wood in winter, fed three wood stoves non-stop, two in the living...
Leadership and Responsibility
Cicero wrote that personal responsibility and moral compass are key to the “Good Life.” He also wrote that “the good...
No, We Are Never Alone
Alone? No. We are never alone, and we do not need another federal or state program, another Harvard study, or...
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