Reflections of An Uncommon Common Man

 A few years ago it dawned on me that the modern day Democrat party is basically the same party that started the American Civil War in 1861. At that time Lincoln was their Donald Trump. Democrats had LDS, or Lincoln Derangement Syndrome. No president was more hated in his lifetime than Abraham Lincoln. That is until Donald Trump came along. For the Democrats it is always a power thing. All they care about is gaining power and holding on to it. In Lincoln's day blacks were their target of oppression. Today, the straight white male, or anyone who declares themselves to be a Conservative regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation is their target if they side with the Conservative movement. Divide and conquer has always been the Democrats strategy. The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass stated that the Democrat master placed a wedge between the black slave and poor whites. The poor white had more in common with the slave than he did with the master. Douglas said "they di...

     Okay patriots let's get real. President Trump, based on his foreign policy accomplishments alone, in both his first and second terms, will rank in history as one of our greatest presidents. Personally, I rank him third behind Washington and Lincoln. He took out ISIS in three weeks, isolated Iran, produced the Abraham Accords and compelled European nations in NATO to provide more funding for their own defense. In his second term by planning in coordination with Israel they have eliminated threats in Iran by destroying their air defense capabilities, killing their nuclear scientists and decapitating their military leadership. Israel also diminished much of their nuclear capabilities on the ground. They have marginalized the threat from Iranian proxies on their borders such as Hamas and Hezbolah and we took out the Hoothies in Yemen. All this to set up the final coup de grace by American B-2 bombers that destroyed their nuclear capabilities for the indefinite future. Pr...

 Justice can be defined this way. When laws are enforced and justice is fairly served. Or it can be defined as just or fair treatment. Vengeance on the other hand is punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong. In my view vengeance can also be part of the justice process. These definitions only apply in a perfect society, or a society that is striving for perfection. It has not been the case in America for a very long time. We have a two tiered justice system where Democrats can virtually commit any crime and never be held accountable. That is Democrats who walk the party line and never buck the system. This doesn't apply to Democrats like RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, or Eric Adams who have the nerve to think for themselves. Because of Democrats we are seeing law abiding good Samaritan citizens like Daniel Penny and Kyle Rittenhouse prosecuted for defending themselves and others. While at the same time perpetrators are ignored, slapped on the hand, released from ja...

Although I voted for Jimmy Carter twice, now I consider him one of our worst and most incompetent presidents in American history. I was a delusional Democrat in those days. Having said that even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally. Most of what he did was bad but I will give the devil his due in one area. Carter was able to negotiate an effective peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in 1978 called the Camp David Accords. It was through Carter's persistence that the Israeli prime minister Manachem Begin was able to sign a peace treaty with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Sadat was a rarity in the Muslim world. He was a secular Muslim who became a true statesman. A man who was looking out for the interests of Egypt and not Islam. Since Israel's founding in 1948 there had been four major wars between the Arab states and Israel. There had been a major war in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. The Camp David Accords was strategic in the sense that as long as Egypt honored the treaty ...

The Downtown Nashville Presbyterian Church on Church Street. formerly the First Presbyterian Church was the third church built on this site in 1848. The first two burned down. It was built in Egyptian Revival style by William Strickland who designed the Tennessee State capital building. General Andrew Jackson accepted a ceremonial sword on this site after his victory at the battle of New Orleans. During the Civil War this building became Union hospital number 8 with 208 beds. A stone Mason who carved gravestones had a business across the street as seen in this picture. The last picture is of a Union nurse treating wounded men in another Nashville tent hospital during the Civil War.

The Maxwell House Hotel was at the corner of 4th and Union in Nashville. Construction was begun in 1859 by John Overton Jr. who was the son of Andrew Jacksons campaign manager and long time friend John Overton. The hotel wasn't completely finished until 1869. It was named for Overton's wife Harriet Maxwell Overton. The hotels coffee was marketed in the late 1800's and became Maxwell House coffee. During the Civil War it was used as a hospital, barracks, and prison for Confederate POW's. Several Confederate prisoners were killed when a stairway collapsed in 1863. Although the KKK originated in Pulaski Tennessee in 1866, it was a harmless social fraternity created to relieve the boredom of six former Confederate soldiers. They dressed up in Halloween type costumes and rode their horses around town scaring local citizens for fun. They also outfitted their horses in similar costumes. The modern day white robes and hoods did not come along until the rebirth of the Klan in 19...

 In Trump's first term he adopted Reagan's Soviet Union strategy directed at bringing down the Iranian regime. Trump knew that the Iranian people, like the Russian people of the 1980's were unhappy with their government and wanted change. Without targeting the Iranian people Trump targeted the regime itself by isolating it economically from the world. Trump promised severe economic sanctions against any country that did business with Iran. Iran's oil exports dropped significantly and by the end of his first term in office Iran was on the verge of bankruptcy. They were also unable to fund their proxy terror groups like Hamas, Hezbolah and other terrorist groups. Trump was hoping that this economic punishment would spur a popular uprising in Iran. It would probably have happened had he been reelected in 2020. His sanctions were also designed to kill their attempt to build a nuclear weapon. The most clear and present danger to Israel, the United States and the entire world...

 On the late afternoon of April 4, 1968 I was working the 2nd shift at Baird-Ward printing company in Nashville when I heard the news about the assassination of Martin Luther King. All hell broke loose in Nashville and Memphis that night. Cities all over the country were burning and looters were running rampant. A state of emergency was declared and by the next day National Guard tanks and armored vehicles were deployed throughout Nashville. Our plant was right across the street from the Tennessee National Guard headquarters. On my breaks I watched as the troops were being mobilized. By the next day a six PM curfew was declared by then Democrat governor Buford Ellington. The Mayor of Nashville was Democrat Beverly Briley. Both handled the situation masterfully. After six o'clock the only people allowed on the street were people like myself who were going to work or were enroute to a hospital for emergency care. Everybody else would be arrested. I was a senior in high school at the ...

   It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. These are the opening lines to Charles Dickens book "A Tale Of Two Cities". This could describe the life with my father Willard Aaron (Bill) Segroves for the almost thirteen years that I knew him. All of his friends and family called him Bill but he was just daddy to us. The best of times were from my birth in 1950 until I was about nine years old. The last three years of his life from 1959 to January 16, 1963 were the worst of times. How does a man evolve from the best father in the world to being a monster? I have asked this question thousands of times in the last 62 years but I can only speculate. On this Fathers Day I want to honor the good dad that I knew. Many people can honor their father on Father's day without reservation but it is more difficult for me. I have tried very hard not to hate him over the years, which I could easily do. Through the years members of my family and friends have tried to console ...

  The very public political break-up between President Trump and Elon Musk is sad and painful to see. It wouldn't be the first time that two great men in history formed a friendship during a pivotal moment in history only to become bitter political rivals later on. The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams comes to mind. Both men were signers of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote the Declaration after Adams recommendation During the American Revolution they were great friends but in later years they became bitter enemies. So much so that when Jefferson succeeded Adams as president he left Washington refusing to attend the swearing in ceremony of Jefferson. In the years before their death on the same day, July 4th 1826, they reconciled as friends. Ironically July 4. 1826 was the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  I don't know yet what really happened to cause this rift. It will eventually all come out in the wash I ...

I worked at Colonial Baking company in Nashville from March 1973 until April 1982. A beautiful young girl named Jennifer Lynn Wyant began working in the Distribution Dept where I worked in 1980. I remember that the male employees went gaga over her because she was so pretty. She dated one of our supervisors who I was friends with. I can't remember his name but he was tragically killed in Atlanta a few years later when he ran head on into a tractor trailer truck. I helped train this girl some and she was very friendly. One morning she didn't report to work and after her apartment was searched it was discovered that she was missing. Nothing was disturbed and her car was still in the parking lot. Police were never able to find her and as of this date her disappearance is still an unsolved mystery. I am posting this because for years I could never remember her name until this morning when I saw a story about her on Youtube. It always bothered me that such a nice girl could go missi...

  President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome missile defense system around the North American continent extending as far west as Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines. Canada will also be defended by this system. This is long overdue in my view but Trump is the visionary that can make it happen. It is also part of a hemispheric defense strategy that will place less emphasis on trying to defend global interests and more emphasis on defending the American people and our interests as a nation. As a child of the 1950's and 60's i grew up knowing the real fear of nuclear war. That was the height of the Cold War. We had duck and cover drills in school and watched countless documentaries on the effects of nuclear war. In the early 1960's people were building fallout shelters in their basements and their backyards. Many were built in my own neighborhood. There were popular movies during that time dealing with nuclear annihilation such as Fail Safe, On The Beach and Doctor Strangelove. T...

   The writ of habeas corpus is a inalienable right guaranteed to every American. It is a fundamental tool.used to ensure that individuals are not unlawfully detained. It allows individuals to challenge the legality of their detention, demanding that the detaining authority produce the person before a court and justify their continued confinement. The right of habeas corpus can be found in Article 1, Section 9, clause 2 of the Constitution. Since this clause is in Article 1 suspension of this right would take an act of Congress. Habeas corpus can only be suspended for a rebellion or an invasion. The right of habeas corpus, however; has been suspended just twice in American history. Both times it was done by the president and not Congress. It was suspended by Lincoln during the Civil War and Roosevelt in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor. In both cases it was directed at American citizens primarily.  If President Trump is forced to suspend habeas corpus it will be directed at ill...

  The left is finally admitting what America's patriots have known since 2020. That Joe Biden was mentally unfit to serve as president. Well big whoop. Now they are expecting a big pat on the back for their courage in revealing this obvious fact. The Pravda media is pointing the finger of blame at the government as if they didn't know all along. It is like admitting that Charles Manson was a psychopath after his trial and conviction. I knew when Biden ran in 2020 against Trump that he had dementia. This was the main topic of discussion with like minded friends If a retired tire builder from Murfreesboro knew that Biden had dementia then the press and people around him had to know. Either that or they are even dumber than I thought. Trump knew it and I think this is why he performed so poorly in the first debate with Biden in 2020. He was trying to trip Biden up by being overly aggressive and this strategy backfired on him. I have read that Biden would be given drug cocktails be...