We live in a time when US universities have long ago distanced themselves from scholarly faculty in favor of fiscal-only managers who chase the almighty Student Loan dollar from the federal government. This has been especially true of administrators like…
No, not in Vietnam where the restless population is now pacified and distracted by cheap electronic gadgetry. Americans, however, haven’t moved far beyond the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, when the nascent broadcast media set out to transform US society.…
In 2010 Friedrich Kunath depicted a man watering a sapling, but with a noose tied from his neck to the young tree. The lesson behind the art is simple: growing slowly, the tree will ironically hang its benefactor. That’s all. …
The presidential election of November 2016 reminded us that the greater land mass of the United States of America is overwhelmingly on the political right. Most counties and rural areas went for Trump, even in liberal strongholds like the Northeast.…
by Duke Doering June 1, 2013 this date in SDNG history, the OH-58 Kiowa helicopter made its final flight as a South Dakota National Guard aircraft yesterday afternoon. Yesterday, May 31, 2013, the Army Aviation Support Facility members said goodbye…
Securing our borders against drugs and all other illegal activities is obvious and long overdue. A wall or electric fence are two of many options, at least to keep trespassers out. But shutting down drug supply will work only…
The Democratic Party remains the victim-of-choice for the mainstream media, who would have us believe that Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation have nothing better to do than use hackers to influence American elections. Better to deny the populist will.…
Groupthink is just another synonym for the way animals conform to their own kind. Humans have found security and compass in adapting themselves to the herd instinct since the beginning. Deliberately acting weird or maverick would have threatened the whole…
The upcoming visit of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will give Americans a chance to look at a politician who actually gets things done by doing “whatever it takes” to relieve his country of a runaway drug epidemic, one that promises…