Selling our home of 21 years necessitated cleaning out the garage, and going through all those boxes was instructive. Several were full of cheap imitation-metal trophies for athletic achievement, accrued by our son from the age of five. I remember each and every end-of-season picnic and trophy presentation. Every kid got one. It was only fair. Rewards were for participation. Excellence, not so much. That is the culture in which our children have grown up: one of political correctness and everyone-is-equal to such a point that we stand today on the brink of losing our very national identity, that of American Exceptionalism.

So I’d like to offer a tip of the derby to Disney for producing the family film “Secretariat” which comes wrapped in this positive message: It’s OK to be a winner!  Competition is good. Racehorses do it. Captains of industry do it. Even – and most importantly in the context of this story – “housewives” do it! They strive to achieve their personal best in life, settling for nothing less from themselves.

As did – thanks to the so-called housewife – the horse.

So, who is this movie about? The horse or the housewife?

The two appear as mutual reflecting pools.

It is 1973.  Penny Chenery’s daughter aspires to join the hippy anti-war movement.  She  spends two of the first three years of the promising young colt’s life fighting to put on an anti-war play at her school. Just as Big Red is about to burst forth on the professional racing scene, Penny’s daughter finally gets to perform her play. Penny¸ shepherding the burgeoning career of the horse, misses the performance because her flight home is grounded due to rain. (more…)

The whole “Robin Hood theory” argument has been used by radical leftists (most commonly referred to as “college professors”) for decades across our great country. “Steal from the rich and give to the poor” is the rhetoric they’ll always undoubtedly regurgitate. There’s only one problem… It’s wrong. Dead wrong.
Every time I hear some dumb college know-it-all or stupid self-righteous celebrity use the story of Robin Hood as an argument for socialism, I want to punch them right in their perfectly zoom-whitened teeth. The truth, is that Robin Hood was the quintessential ANTI-Government revolutionary. He’d have more in common with our Founding Fathers or Ronald Reagan than the likes of Stalin, Marx, or Sean Penn.

See the one point that liberals miss when they read the story of Robin Hood was that the man never stole from “the rich.” Leftists like to vilify the wealthy, but the tale of Robin Hood vilifies a corrupt government. Robin Hood was stealing from an oppressive monarchy/administration and giving the wealth back to its rightful owners. He was essentially re-distributing wealth by removing it from the initial re-distributors. Confused? Let’s break down the story of Robin Hood for a second: (more…)