It has been fifty years since I first studied about this unusual Confederate spy and one hundred eighteen years since her death. I say unusual as hers is not a pro South, pro slavery story, in...

Some may ask how did a nice conservative like you ever get involved helping run a multi million dollar federal program? It wasn’t easy. During my decades in the field of education there was a...

From the notes of Dr. John Watson (as discovered by Dr. Fred Eichelman) I had not been by to see my old friend Sherlock Holmes for a few weeks due to travel and felt neglectful. No sooner were...

A favorite period of mine to study in history has been Europe from l900 to 1920. It is a period very much mirrored today and a time when we had the start of the greatest war known to mankind. It...

Frankly this is a day we could have done without. Disaster struck on the way home from a medical appointment for my hearing. On the way our SUV died. Smoking and bucking so Carolyn and I, on my...

Though Memorial Day has passed we need to commemorate those who gave their lives for our freedom every day. Additionally to recognize that the casualties of war do not end with a cease fire and a...

“Come with me and you’ll be In a world of pure imagination…”  –Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory There are many reasons to not envy kids in school...

An Anonymous Message to PolitiChicks I guess I should not admit that my family and I were legal aliens who applied for entry to this country, then paid our dues and became citizens after waiting...

John 21:18 NKJ “Most assuredly, I say to you, when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird...

PolitiChicks has had several very important articles about Hollywood hypocrisy and sexism which were eye openers. Yes, there were things we may have read about in the past but did not take...

Last year a brilliant Christian film was released, Let There Be Light, that unfortunately did not hit all the theaters that it should have. Some like this writer had to make 30 mile trip to see...

Not being a theologian and knowing that Politichicks has a stable of brilliant writers who are likely on this subject now I hesitated to put in my two cents about “The Nation’s Pastor.”  However...

As a kid in a small Virginia town in the forties this writer thought the coolest job was the town policeman. He got to preview films during the afternoon before they were shown to the local...

When we think of fandom the image usually makes us think of the sports and the entertainment worlds, however there is another form of fandom that can be deadly. Political fandom when it...

by Dr. Fred & Carolyn Eichelman In not too many weeks it will be baseball season and for some that remains the national pastime. We cannot claim that as a fact today and surprisingly it isn’t...

More Notes From Dr. John Watson as Discovered by Dr. Fred Eichelman I never thought my friend Sherlock Holmes would care to leave London for another ride in that infernal H.G. Wells time...

  Millennials have a new target: James Bond. The early Bond films are being called sexist in plot and Sean Connery has been described as “basically a rapist.” The women in the Bond films are seen...

Growing up I was in a generation when mothers put soap in your mouth if your language was unclean. It was usually a lesson quickly learned. What is interesting today is listening to so many foul...