MOAB‘S

In biblical terms and times, Moab was a kingdom in what is today Jordan, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The inhabitants or Moabites thrived for roughly a millennia and were antagonists of Israel. In today’s parlance, M.O.A.B. is an acronym/abbreviation for mother of all bombs and that’s the connotation here, meaning the following will be, for some folks, staggeringly unbelievable, like nukes to their psyches/sense...

WHAT’S AN AMERICAN?

I remember in kindergarten learning to sing MY COUNTRY ‘TIS OF THEE and memorizing the PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. We stood and recited both of these every day at the start of school. We also said the pledge at every assembly, meeting, sporting event and graduation. In music time one of the first songs we learned was Yankee Doodle . . . Pride in America was taught from the very beginning, and before that most parents home...