On the floor of the Senate, surrounded by elected officials and important dignitaries, an eccentric inventor started texting. On May 24, 1844, with a crude electrical wire strung from D.C. to Baltimore, Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph, forever transforming the world. Reflecting on the divine providence of this technological leap forward, Morse tapped out...
Author: Philip Wegmann (Philip Wegmann)
Baseball should stay timeless
When God created the world, he made mistakes. When God created baseball, he made perfection. Now though, like irreverent and ungrateful children, the commissioner and owners have instituted new rules for the 2015 season foolishly trying to hurry the pace of a game designed to exist outside of time. But baseball doesn’t need progressive reformation....
Former Charger runner leads Academy Athletics
Mike Roberts kept getting faster, picking up speed each year he ran. In middle school he was a standout; in high school, an All-American; at Hillsdale College, almost a national champion. A middle and long distance runner, Roberts used to smoke sprinters for fun in footraces. Horsing around after practice his sophomore year of college,...
Big Brother should back off
Postmodern kids in a post-9/11 world, this generation worries more about what our mothers might find on Facebook than what Big Brother could discover in our inbox. That’s according to a January Pew Research poll, which shows 60 percent of young people still support the National Security Agency regardless of its controversial domestic spying program....
Driving Mr. Sasse
Most job interviews last less than twenty minutes. Peter Staab’s took all day. In August of last year, Staab volunteered his car to drive an obscure Nebraska Republican around the state for a few town-hall meetings. The next week, Staab became the official driver and first staffer for the Ben Sasse Senate campaign. Now the...