The Nelson Column must stand. Cancel culture and its twin evil of presentism must be torn down.

This essay originated with a question a good friend posed to me just days ago: “Name the top 5 things that happened to you in 2023,” he asked.

Many on the left argue that Christian teaching should spurn private property and endorse a socialist system of wealth redistribution. After all, isn’t that what those early Christians did? 

I wonder what Orville and Wilbur would think about the time when a plane landed in Montana without a pilot.

I have no desire to be a subject of any potentate but if I had to live under just one of the nearly 100 emperors of ancient Rome, I believe I would choose Marcus Aurelius.

A festering question concerning Native Americans is that of property rights, the extent to which the various tribes and their individual members possessed them—both when white settlers first arrived and even today. 

November 11, 2023 was a day in Warsaw that I will never forget!

This is an award I shall proudly display as long as I live. I will use it to help tell the story of this nation’s brave people.

Unlike many previous presidents, Reagan did not mince words when it came to recognizing the evils of socialism and the Soviet Empire. He, along with other notables, received Poland’s Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.

Caesar, Cato, Cicero, Pertinax and more.

Perhaps Montanans saw in Bryan a man who, though often wrong, was sincere and incorruptible. If so, they were right. His reputation was never tainted by graft or dishonesty. 

He was as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. We here in Newnan, Georgia are glad he left town.

Some of the better presidents are the ones most people don’t know.

Publius Rutilius Rufus (158 B.C.-78 B.C.) attempted to reform Rome's corrupt tax system, and soon found himself accused of corruption and extortion himself.

Some people may look back on late 19th Century America in disdain because women couldn’t vote. But consider the context: For most of human history, nobody could vote—neither man nor woman. You did as you were told, as serf, slave or subject. Women could not vote in Mexico, for instance, until 1953.

All over the world, a year before World War II even started, doors were closing to Jewish refugees. One tiny island offered to accept a huge number.

Were Georgians right when they endorsed William Jennings Bryan all three times he ran for President? Personally, I wouldn’t have voted for him even once, so now you know where I stand.

The staggering death toll in France is a reminder of what can happen when private initiative is replaced with government “safety nets.”

The tragedy in Hawaii reminded Biden of his kitchen; but the horrific nature of it and government’s culpability in it brought to my mind another event, long forgotten.

In the face of soaring prices, do you suppose the inflating Ptolemies repented by cutting their spending, balancing their budgets, and restoring sound money?