During the long drive, I started listening to interviews from Vietnam veterans.

Came across this one. Jerry McNelly.

Everyone should give the entire interview a listen

I think I would be very Happy having my own farm.

And Siri dictate actually capitalized the word happy because more often than not, when I use it, it’s to describe Happy Gilmore.

Graham Farms. Totally beautiful.

As we were driving back from the Graham’s peach farm, we drove through one heck of a storm.

I did a quick hit on Richard Syrette yesterday. Gotta keep Canadians apprised of the U.S. madness.

Closing Argument: Birthright citizenship is deeply American, and wholly Constitutional.

Audio podcast style.

@RobertBarnes

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/05/25/thoughts-about-the-vocation-of-soldiers/

The Catholic Thing reposts a Memorial Day Fulton J. Sheen reflection framing the soldier’s vocation as sacrificial service: defense of justice in war, preservation of order in peace, and moral courage rooted in duty rather than mere force. The key line for our purposes is Sheen’s distinction between freedom as license and freedom as duty: he writes that true freedom is not “the right to do whatever I please,” but the right “to do whatever I ought.”

Comment draft:

Memorial Day is properly about remembrance, sacrifice, and ordered liberty — not mere militarism.

Fulton Sheen’s point is powerful: the soldier’s vocation is not simply the use of force. It is the disciplined defense of justice, lawful order, and moral duty. That distinction matters today. A republic cannot survive if “freedom” is reduced to appetite, faction, or administrative convenience. True freedom requires ...