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Thankful for Learning the Lessons of Failure

Thankful for Learning the Lessons of Failure

by Thomas Krannawitter | Nov 20, 2018 | Economics, Government, History, Speaking Easy, Uncategorized | 2 comments

We Americans, today, owe much to the failures of the first Pilgrim (and later Puritan) colonists and the willingness of later generations to learn from those failures. DEATH The good news worthy of celebration and thanksgiving in Plymouth in the Fall of 1621 was that,...
#ABOLISHLICENSES Challenge for State Legislators

#ABOLISHLICENSES Challenge for State Legislators

by Thomas Krannawitter | Jun 10, 2018 | Economics, Government, History, Save the Swamp | 1 comment

Many candidates for state legislatures and governorships across the United States talk about scaling back the size, scope, and power of government. Once in office, however, they find it to be no easy task. So much that was intended to be reserved to state governments,...
We forget much when we forget the Holocaust

We forget much when we forget the Holocaust

by Thomas Krannawitter | Apr 16, 2018 | Education, Government, History, Philosophy

A recent survey shows that many Americans either never learned or have forgotten much about the Holocaust. Many Americans don’t know the full extent of the government slaughter, or they cannot say what Auschwitz was, or they don’t know that Hitler...
Sunday Theology Funday: The Bible, Machiavelli, & glory

Sunday Theology Funday: The Bible, Machiavelli, & glory

by Thomas Krannawitter | Jan 22, 2018 | History, Philosophy, Theology | 2 comments

If the Bible suggests that glory and might, power and right, can all be the same thing at the same time, Machiavelli surely agrees. 

BEFORE HALLOWEEN: HALLOWED SAMHAIN

BEFORE HALLOWEEN: HALLOWED SAMHAIN

by Thomas Krannawitter | Oct 31, 2017 | History, Speaking Easy

Ancient practices that later became Halloween often focused on two phenomena that dominated life in any ancient culture: The changing of the seasons and the ancestral dead.

Sunday Theology Funday: Floods, curses, slavery, & race

Sunday Theology Funday: Floods, curses, slavery, & race

by Thomas Krannawitter | Aug 27, 2017 | History, Philosophy, Theology

Floods, curses, slavery, and race.

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