Conservative politics. Studying American history, especially the Civil War. Collecting Civil War and political artifacts. Writing.
Music
Classic Rock, Classical, Jazz. Rap is CRAP.
Movies
In no particular order... Patton, Dark City, Silverado, the Hammer Horror films, all the Universal horror pics, Lonesome Dove, the Longriders, and the like.
Television
Star Trek, Stargate SG1, Lost.
Books
Everything by Heinleine, Clarke, Asimov, and Bradbuy.After that, I love non-fiction in American history books.
Heroes
George Washington, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Teddy Roosevelt, George S. Patton, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.
About me: My thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, RedState.com, StopTheACLU.com and americandaily.com among many, many others. I have also written for several history magazines and I appear in the new book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com.
Who I'd like to meet: Every Founding Father except Thomas Paine who seems like... well... a real pain, Teddy Roosevlet --not that I'd get a word in edgewise -- Robert E. Lee, Peter Cushing, and Ronald Reagan. Oh, and Elivs just to tell him that he looks great in a Burger King uniform.
I think I'm outta luck, though. They are all dead!
As I understand it, Jefferson favorite writers were Locke, Bacon, and Newton. But, for me, I think Locke is my favorite, because of his influence on Jefferson, Voltaire, and Rousseau...
Thank you for the honor of being added Mr. Huston. God bless and may he prosper a son of the founding fathers in the Spirit of Liberty which breathes in you. Semper Fi Pax Americanus
Thanks for the add. Here is a story about Lee that demonstrates what a great person he was.
Transcript from "April 1865. The Month that Saved America." The History Channel, Copyright 2003.
It's a warm spring Sunday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond. As the minister is about to present Holy Communion, a tall well dressed black man sitting in the section reserved for African Americans unexpectedly advances to the communion rail; unexpectedly because this has never happened here before.
The congregation freezes. Those that had been ready to go forward and kneel at the communion rail remain fixed in their pews. The minister stands in his place stunned and motionless. The black man slowly lowers his body, kneeling at the communion rail.
After what seems like an interminable amount of time, an older white man rises. His hair snowy white, head up, and eyes proud, he walks quietly up the aisle to the chancel rail.
So with silent dignity and self-possesion, the white man kneels down to take communion along the same rail with the black man.
Lee has said that he has rejoiced that slavery is dead. But this action indicates that these were not idle words meant to placate a northern audience. Here amongst his people he leads wordlessly through example. The other communicants slowly move forward to the altar with a mixture of reluctance and fear, hope and awkward expectation. In the end America would defy the cruel chain of history besetting nations torn apart by civil war.
