Tag Archives: leadership

The Importance of Eye Contact

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Stephen Clay McGehee

The Art of Manliness – one of my favorite blogs – has an excellent post on the importance of maintaining eye contact with others. Leadership is a major topic here on Confederate Colonel, and eye contact is a social matter … Continue reading →

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Lessons from the USS Cumberland Sound

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Stephen Clay McGehee

Leadership, at its most basic level, means to serve others. A good leader knows that the objective is to get the job done – not to make sure that you receive the glory. I thought about this as I put … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving, 1944

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Stephen Clay McGehee

The Norman Rockwell classic, Freedom From Want, speaks volumes of the bounty that we have here in America. Even the poorest of the poor here are far richer than much of the rest of the world. Obesity is a far … Continue reading →

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A Judge With Common Sense

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Stephen Clay McGehee

Every once in a while, I take advantage of my role as chief scribe at Confederate Colonel to post something quite unrelated to our main topic. This is one of those posts. After my previous post in which I pointed … Continue reading →

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A Matter of Suffrage

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Stephen Clay McGehee

Any serious discussion about why the “American Experiment” has failed will eventually come to the same conclusion: The problem is not who we have in positions of leadership – the problem is who votes to put those people into positions … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Leadership – The Burden

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Stephen Clay McGehee

The lure of being the one in charge is certainly an attractive one, and given the self-centered attitude of today’s crop of “leaders”, it is quite understandable that the burden of leadership is missed. When most people look at others … Continue reading →

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Letter to a Union General

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Stephen Clay McGehee

Sometimes, we need to step back in time and read the words of those who were there rather than the opinions of politically correct self-proclaimed “historians”. These are such words. OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 2, vol 5, Part 1 (Prisoners of … Continue reading →

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Egalitarianism – Destroyer of Nations

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Stephen Clay McGehee

Egalitarianism is the false belief that everyone is equal – that everyone has equal abilities, equal potential, equal intelligence, equal moral and spiritual uprightness, etc. If everyone is equal, then the logic follows that the results should be equal – … Continue reading →

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League of The South – I Was Wrong

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Stephen Clay McGehee

In the past, I have written a number of times about my disagreement with the stated objectives of the League of The South. I now find myself having to say that for the current situation of this nation, I was … Continue reading →

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For Good Men To Do Nothing

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Stephen Clay McGehee

A quote attributed to Edmund Burke is “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Borrowing that thought, All that is necessary for our Southern culture and heritage to be destroyed is for … Continue reading →

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