THE GREATEST AMERICAN ADDRESS NOBODY HAS READ
If you were to ask Americans to name the greatest speech in our nation’s history, many would probably choose Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. As a devoted admirer of Lincoln, I would be hard pressed…
Newsletter 83 – THE WOMAN BEHIND THE WRITER
This week’s issue is unlike any I’ve published before. On Friday, July 10th, I said goodbye to my mother. I’d like to introduce you to the woman who quietly shaped so much…
A SPACE IN TIME – CHAPTER 10
The following morning Lincoln arose and looked out the window onto the front lawn. The first thing he noticed was a throng of people standing a hundred yards away being held back by a…
Newsletter 82 – DO WE WANT AMERICA TO LOOK LIKE CALIFORNIA?
This week we examine Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions and Illinois economic woes, preview two upcoming books, revisit Cubs legend Ron Santo, and close with a beautiful piano performance of Comfortably Numb. Read More!…
ILLINOIS RESIDENTS ARE REACHING THEIR BREAKING POINT
As a small business owner employing 20 hardworking Illinoisans, I’ve reached the point where I wonder how much longer businesses like mine can survive under the policies coming out of Springfield. Every year, it…
Newsletter 82 – Happy 250th Birthday America!
Welcome to the special July 4th edition of Webber’s Whipping Post. Two hundred and fifty years ago, our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia, drafted and signed a document that changed the course of human…
TWO VIRGINIANS. TWO ARMIES. TWO DIFFERENT LEGACIES History remembers Robert E. Lee as the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia. Over the past twenty-five years, several Lee statues have been removed…
ENOCH ASHLEY’S LAST SONG
Greg Baldry was sixteen when the band Frigid Pink released the classic song, House of the Rising Sun. He heard it on a jukebox in a local malt shop in the small Midwestern town…
Newsletter 81 – AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” July…
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