D.L. Adams

D.L. Adams

D.L. Adams is an analyst and historian.

Mr. Adams work has appeared in American Thinker, The Washington Times, Family Security Matters, Big Peace, Big Government, and numerous other websites and publications in the US and abroad including Patriots of the American Revolution magazine.

Adams is a student of Islamic doctrine, history, terrorism, and current events. In addition, Adams writes about the American Civil War, international politics, war, domestic culture, literature, and institutions.

Stricken with a positive attitude in troubled times Mr. Adams employs logic, historical research, and analysis to uncover motivations, contexts, and possible outcomes.

Lord of the Rings is Adams' favorite movie, second only to Le Grand Illusion.

Here is the motivational quote:

Frodo: “I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."

Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

dladams@ahollowreveille.com
D.L. Adams

Israel’s Prison Swap Shows Netanyahu’s Fearless Leadership

The great ideological and civilizational confrontation of our time is played out, in large part, in the hearts and minds of the people of the world. Imprisoned for five years, contrary to international law in some dark hole only miles from the border of his country, Shalit’s return marks a joyful yet simultaneously painful, crucial moment [...]
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The Grand Coronation of Death: A Civil War Sesquicentennial Tribute

The history of 1861-1865 is an unconquerable mountain of moral lessons, action, heroes, villains, violence, politics, honor, compassion, culture; the core of American history. One of the most brutal battles of the Civil War occurred at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864. Lt. General John Bell Hood, a hero of Gettysburg, Gaines’ Mill, Antietam, and Chickamauga and his [...]
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Dehumanization – Preliminary Lessons of the Oslo Attack

Not much is new in all of this – innocents have been massacred by arrogant, deluded, self-important failed humans since time immemorial. Now Oslo and Shanksville are neighbors in a global world and a global failure. It is difficult to make sense of the events in Oslo where almost 100 innocent people were murdered by one [...]
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; A Friendship Renewed – Lessons For A Divided Nation

On July 4, 1826, two of the great founders of American democracy breathed their last. John Adams, ensconced at Peacefield in Quincy, Massachusetts was comforted in his last moments in the belief that Jefferson still lived. Such were Adams’ last words. Unknown to Adams Jefferson had died several hours earlier, asking in his final moments [...]
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Moral Relativism and Fall: Solzhenitsyn’s Forgotten Warning to America

It is not understood definitively anywhere when the decline came. What is understood and easily seen is that we are a culture and society in deep trouble. There are proofs and evidence everywhere for those who care to look for such things. We were warned by one of the greatest men of the 20th century that [...]
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Concise Guide To Islamic Hate Speech and Intolerance

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - Hamlet (1.4.90), Marcellus to Horatio The statement above is obvious and redundant. Something is rotten in Denmark, but also in Canada, United Kingdom, Finland, Austria, and most importantly, in the United States. The assaults on freedom of speech across the West relating to accurate/truthful comments about Islam and terrorism [...]
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Libya Agonistes and American Exceptionalism: Why Intervening In Libya Is The Right Thing To Do

It seems a strange juxtaposition that so many conservative pundits oppose the no-fly/no-drive intervention against Gadhafi after having touted American exceptionalism for years. If the United States is “exceptional” and we have a global reach military of air and sea power what is the purpose for it if not to engage in defense of Libyan [...]
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Arab Spring 2011 – Hopes and Fears

The attention of the world is focused now on the Arab world. We are watching a fault line cracking; decades old political constructs of tyranny and abuse are being challenged and overturned across the Arab Muslim world. When the upheavals have ended what will take their places; will democracy and civil society rise in the [...]
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‘Chrislam’ – Core Values Without a Core

Two great challenges facing the West in our nasty and brutish post 9 -11 world are how to interact with Muslim states and if it is possible to integrate Muslim citizens into our open, too often self-destructive, hyper-tolerant cultures. The European model of unfettered Muslim immigration to foster further multicultural deconstructions of the character of the [...]
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The Growing Number of Conversions to Islam in the US and Europe: What Does It Mean?

Observers and interested parties have expressed amazement, confusion and concern at the growth of Islam in the West since 9/11. Apparently, no acts of mass murder, familial barbarism and cruelty, jihad violence against non-Muslims, and threat of (nuclear) war from leaders of Islamic states are sufficient to dissuade some “searchers”. After the 9/11 Islamic atrocities, conversions [...]
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