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2020 Election Reader
Your Essential Christian Guide to the 2020 Presidential Election Who to vote for? Why should I even vote? What difference will it make? This short book–you can read it in less than an hour if you are not interrupted–will answer some of your questions, and, most important, suggest that the answers are in the Bible, […]
Quid omnes tangit debet
June 7, 2022
I thought I would sound erudite and educated in the old-fashioned way today and try out some Latin on you. We’re all familiar with e pluribus unum but how many know what it means? Not too long ago I ran into Quid omnes tangit debet while working on the iconic Dominican priest Bartolomé de las […]
Posted in: History
There’s a Hispanic Living in My House
May 17, 2022
Years ago, when growing up in Lima, Peru I knew more or less that I was a little gringuito. That’s gringo in the diminutive or little gringo. If you still don’t know what a “gringo” is, that’s what we Americans are called in Latin America. It’s a common term in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world […]
Posted in: Hispanics and Latinos
White Racists, 2022 Update
April 20, 2022
White Racists, 2022 Update Over the past several years, the University of Alabama’s Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion vigorously denied it teaches white racism is inevitable, endemic, and cannot be changed. But is this what they teach? A couple of summers ago DEI at UA hosted a “common read” of the New York Times […]
Posted in: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, History
What Were You Doing in 1965?
April 8, 2022
What Were You Doing in 1965? Over the past few months, I have read a lot of newspaper articles—most on the front pages—about the marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. In fact, I didn’t read much more in my local newspaper other than articles celebrating Black History Month. Which is fine. This is, after […]
Posted in: History
The Truth Be Known: Education in Alabama
March 22, 2022
Two articles appeared recently (Feb.-March 2022) in The Tuscaloosa News, and both examined, directly and indirectly, the state of education in Alabama. A third article was published in 2019 in which Alabama was ranked next to last in the US News and World Report ranking of best and worst states. This latter ranking looked at […]
Posted in: Education
The Bernardo de Gálvez Building at The University of Alabama
March 16, 2022
A few years ago, we entered a renaming spree at the University of Alabama. I noticed it when someone suggested we needed to dump the name of Morgan Hall named after John Tyler Morgan. Morgan was an old white racist, and it was a disgrace to have a building named after him, so went the […]
Posted in: renaming buildings
The “Great Resignation”
March 16, 2022
“The Underside of the ‘Great Resignation’” by Mene Ukueberuwa appeared on Jan. 22-23 in the “Opinion” column of the WSJ and I was curious. What in the world was the “Great Resignation?” Perhaps it was someone fed up with their job who resigned to answer the call to something better? Bubba just had a “great […]
Posted in: work
Interview with L. Clayton on Through My Christian Prism or At the Port Rail
March 12, 2022
This is the video interview of L. A. Clayton on his book, Through My Christian Prism, or At the Port Rail done by Suzanne Lynn Cheesman of Triangle Media early March, 2022. You can see the YouTube version of the video at: https://youtu.be/KGmK3QbGftw You can purchase the book at any online bookdealer. Just toggle on […]
Posted in: Radio, Skype and Television Interviews
Revising History: The Not-So-Subtle Ways We Interpret the Past
February 8, 2022
We play with our children with words. “Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.” We learn, in fact, to communicate. Then something happens along the way. Someone says, “hey that’s not always true, we have white roses,” or something equally silly that challenges what the words say. Some of […]
Posted in: History
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- Jeremiah 23:24“Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the LORD. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the LORD.”
The Port Rail 
October 10, 2020
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