The President’s speech last night at Arlington, Virginia, demonstrated his ability as an activist commander that America hasn’t seen in a long, long time. His most interesting achievement was how he managed the mainstream media, easily a monopolistic…
Vietnam veteran Clark Mola of Rapid City was video-interviewed recently by South Dakota Public Broadcasting. He shared his seldom-revealed thoughts on what it was like to serve as a US Army helicopter pilot, flying troops and ammo into…
South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s new move into Rapid City’s supreme Art Deco icon, the old Parts Central Building at 415 Main Street, couldn’t have come at a better time. As Wikipedia reminds us, “During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury,…
In retrospect, 2017 may stand out as the year many conservatives join those on the political right to stop watching national news on television. Those in the center, of course, continue to welcome look-alike anti-Trump news as a…
The upcoming 500-year anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on October 31 will focus on the Catholic monk Martin Luther’s militant attempts to reform the Catholic Church from within. After all, fundraising was threatening to obscure the Church’s most basic teachings. …
A military motorcycle club, the Green Knights, will provide an escort convoy—Dakota Thunder Run—from Ellsworth Air Force Base to the Sturgis Rally on Tuesday, August 8—all to honor a hundred-year-old US Army Air Force veteran, Stan Lieberman of Rapid City,…
I recently spoke with some tourists visiting the Black Hills from Portland, Oregon, but they could just as well have come from any big city across America. It soon became apparent that they were under the influence of the New…
Now a provost and professor at John Witherspoon College in Rapid City, Debra A. Shattuck was once a USAF Colonel and 28th Maintenance Group Commander at Ellsworth Air Force Base. She was a young captain at the Pentagon when hijacked terrorist…
Born and bred in rural South Dakota, George Moe graduated from West Point and became a tank commander for General Patton’s Third Army. He was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. During the Occupation of Germany, Moe…