by Donald Teel | Mar 22, 2022
Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn’t much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was...
by Donald Teel | Mar 13, 2022
Choosing one’s friends is critical and typically based on mutual interests, common values, and compatibility. The China-Russia alliance on display in Ukraine fits my criteria for global comrades, aka, friends. China and Russia share a mutual interest in the...
by Donald Teel | Jun 19, 2021
Politicians evolve. We all know we can expect changes from the time a candidate first announces a run for office, and thereafter forevermore. It is typically our collective and disappointing experience to watch politicians devolve, to go backward, regress, even crash...
by Donald Teel | Feb 16, 2021
Even the most casual observer of the nations will acknowledge there is a heightened level of global unrest. The level of uneasiness is fueled by the dangers of COVID-19, and these dangers go beyond the pandemic itself, as more and more states tighten their grip on...
by Donald Teel | Jul 31, 2020
No President, standing alone, can lay claim to having made America great. George Washington, our first President and the undisputed Father of America, is the closest person who could remotely lay claim to having made America great. Let’s tell the truth. America,...
