THE CORNFIELD - RICK REEVES ANTIETAM CORNFIELD THROUGH THE CORNFIELD - KEITH ROCCO

Antietam and the War of Ideas

    The American Civil War has so many teaching points and moments of inspiration for those concerned with the preservation of western civilization’s higher ideals that it bears constant review and re-focus. Though framed as a battle between “free” and “slave” states, it reached violent fruition in 1861 as a rebellion initiated by states determined […]... Read More
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Country Guitar Master

     We are frequently biased when we think of musical masters of the guitar to the technical virtuosos classically trained like Segovia, or the electric guitar giants such as Eric Clapton or Les Paul.  Country music has a bit of a “bumpkin” reputation associated with guitars used as props and casually strummed, but the superficial […]... Read More
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The World Drives Toward a Nuclear Future; We Remain in Park

   The focus on Iran’s nuclear program for its potential development of nuclear weapons obscures somewhat the progressive demand  by many countries across the globe to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by development of nuclear energy capacity.  The presence of the majority of fossil fuel deposits in the hands of a very few countries has […]... Read More

Hey…You’re Going The Wrong Way!

     A terrific ad recently created by Fred Davis of Strategic Perception, one of the more creative Republican media ad producers, and underwritten by Citizens For The Republic has been furiously making the rounds of the blogosphere and soon to be publicly disseminated.  In a perseptive inverse mirror effect it recalls precisely for the modern generation the […]... Read More

Brooks Comedy Perfection

     Working together on the western homage/farce Blazing Saddles, Gene Wilder intimated to Mel Brooks, the writer and producer of Blazing Saddles, that he had an idea for another homage movie based on the 1930’s classic Frankenstein.  Brooks intially stated the world hardly needed another sequel to the Frankenstein monster, which produced so many pale […]... Read More

Independent Voters Back On The Swing Set

     One day before the 1998 election for Senator for the state of Wisconsin, I was conversing about the election with a good friend, a self described “independent” voter.   The election was one of those elections that provide the best of democracy in action.  Two very intelligent men, Russ Feingold, Democrat, and Mark Neumann, Republican, with […]... Read More

Tea Party Ascendant

     In one of the most notorious political mis-steps in political history, the democrat party’s denigrating of the grass roots movement known as the tea party may be its undoing in the elections of 2010.   The primary races of September 14th  are showing with progressive clarity the strength and will of tea party activists to […]... Read More