As Father's Day Approaches

In a just world, Father's Day would join Mother's Day by being scheduled at some point during the school year so fathers could get the traditional loot produced by grade school students when they are learning how to draw on plates or coffee mugs.

It is, of course, held at a much more obscure time, but the general culture offers hope of recognition.

Consider these role models from the movies:

1. Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)

2. Vito Corleone (The Godfather)

3. Pa Kettle (The Egg and I)

4. Bryan Mills (Taken)

5. Marlin (Finding Nemo)

6. George Banks (Father of the Bride)

7. Chris Gardner (The Pursuit of Happyness) 

8. Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Well, all lists have a few exceptions.

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The CIA's Insane Gold Bars Scandal

Then, starting in November 2025, Rush allegedly did something astonishing, more striking than anything he had done before. According to the affidavit, “Rush made several requests to the U.S. Government to obtain a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses.” 

Read the rest of Byron York's report in the Washington Examiner.

Crank It Up

 

Created Equal: The Documentary

 

Don't miss Created Equal, the book of the same name by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta. It is composed of the documentary's transcripts. 

An excerpt: My grandfather understood that education was the key because he didn't have it, and that's what had held him back. He wasn't going to let that happen to his boys. And he said that he went to third grade, but school was three months out of the year because you had to work. Education wasn't some social experiment. It wasn't a lot of this drivel you hear today. It was the key. It was something that had to be done. Reading, writing, arithmetic, and, by golly, you are going to learn it. You were never going to miss a day of school. And he made that very clear. Remember now, I am seven years old, my brother is six, and he says to us, "You are going to go to school every day. And if you are sick, you are still going, and if you die, you will go. I will take your body for three days and make sure you're not faking." And he meant it. The thing about it is, it's one thing if somebody says that and you think they're exaggerating. He wasn't that kind of guy. In your mind you knew he had laid down a marker. You were going to go dead or alive. Well or sick. And that's the way we went.

On My List

 

Find Something Beautiful Today

 

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Brothers in Arms

 

Serious Books on D-Day

• The Longest Day: D-Day June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
• Neptune I: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings by Craig L. Symonds
• Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings

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Hmm

 

Perspective

 From English History, 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor