Education

• Washburn University
• Hayden

Favorite saying

• ""It ain't what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know that ain't so." - Larry Niven "You are either always a champion or never a champion." - Michael Jordan “Trace the universe back to God’s power, and follow His power upstream to His wisdom.” - Max Lucado "I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people -- and parisites." - Robert A. Heinlein "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H. L. Menken "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both." - Benjamin Franklin "If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?" - Sarah Palin (She did not claim this was original with her.) "All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Benjamin Franklin "Ownership is not only a right, it is a duty. Ownership obligates. Use your property as if it had been entrusted to you for the benefit of the stakeholders (customers, employees, suppliers, owners), for, in fact, it has been entrusted to you by God." - Jay Ives (With apologies to Oswald Spengler.) "Everything that is called duty, the prerequisite for all genuine law and the substance of every noble custom, can be traced back to honor. If one has to think about it, one is already without honor." - Oswald Spengler The American Way of life is individualistic, dynamic, pragmatic. It affirms the supreme value and dignity of the individual; it stresses incessant activity on his part, for he is never to rest but is always to be striving to "get ahead"; it defines an ethic of self-reliance, merit, and character, and judges by achievement: "deeds, not creeds" are what count. The "American Way of Life" is humanitarian, "forward-looking", optimistic. Americans are easily the most generous and philanthropic people in the world, in terms of their ready and unstinting response to suffering anywhere on the globe. The American believes in progress, in self-improvement, and quite fanatically in education. But above all, the American is idealistic. Americans cannot go on making money or achieving worldly success simply on its own merits; such "materialistic" things must, in the American mind, be justified in "higher" terms, in terms of "service" or "stewardship" or "general welfare"... And because they are so idealistic, Americans tend to be moralistic; they are inclined to see all issues as plain and simple, black and white, issues of morality. - Will Herberg "From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea -- written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo -- 'There is no substitute for victory.' " - General Douglas MacArthur"