Stonekettle Station

  Paula Deen doesn’t think she’s a racist. And very likely, in her mind, she isn’t. Certainly she doesn’t come across as your standard is...

  Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         - Benjamin ...

Because my email has increased to unmanageable levels over the last year or so, I’ve started missing things that I really can’t afford to mi...

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the ve...

Late last week this blog vanished from the web. Some people cheered. Some people wept. The earth shifted slightly in its orbit. And ...

Portions of this text first appeared here on Stonekettle Station, Memorial Day, 2011. The wars change, the years pass, the message remains t...

  After the previous essay on Benghazi, I got a bunch of email. The gist of which is best summed up as: Okay, Benghazi, fine, whatever. F...