The Famished Patriot

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On this Fourth of July, 2013, I am mourning the loss of my country. And I mourn for several reasons. 1. I mourn first and foremost that so many of my American countrymen have rejected the God whose merciful goodness secured liberty for so many generations in our land. 2. I mourn because those who […]

Every year, on the final Monday in May, Americans pause to honor all of those who “died while in the military service.” There is no greater gift one can give to his or her country. From the brave ones who fell from the first shots fired at Lexington-Concord, to the latest American casualty brought home […]

Some of you know of my involvement with the Manassas Tea Party. All of you have no doubt heard about the IRS’s intimidation tactics against the Tea Parties and other Constitution-supporting, patriotic groups. What you may not know is that our local Manassas Tea Party organization (MTP) was involved in the ACLJ lawsuit. Since February […]

I submit to you that there was but one element missing in this year’s election process. And it is the sole reason our incumbent Commander-in-Chief was returned to the White House for another four years. The missing element? Virtue. Virtue has all but disappeared from our American landscape. Virtue is out of vogue. Virtue is […]

Ours is a “small r” republican form of government. We are a republic, not a democracy. If we were a democracy, we would all vote on everything – every dollar spent by city hall, or drawn from our state’s coffers for some project or budgeted item, would be directed by a collective vote of all […]

Just about everyone remembers where they were on the morning of September 11th, 2001. My wife and I had piled into the car and were on our way to Dulles Airport. Packed and ready to go, she was slated to fly to Myrtle Beach to spend the rest of the week with some friends. As […]

Authentic. Genuine. Real. I like these words. My inspiration for this new series titled The Patriot came almost immediately after I began writing The Famished Patriot blog. That was nearly eight months ago. The word “patriot” has intrigued me for a while now, and I wanted to explore it more fully. As I began to […]

Many of you who follow this blog know that I have co-authored four historical novels for young readers (actually five now). But before these stories, my writing partner, John Jenkins, and I took two-and-a-half years to complete our first adult novel, Bloodlines. The centerpiece character of that story was a man named Sam MacDonald. Our fictional […]

“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.” James Madison […]