“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was created as an occasion to honor those who have paid the ultimate price to ensure…
Month: May 2021
Has Socialism Harmed No One?
JERRY NEWCOMBE APRIL 23, 2021 George Santayana famously said that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. That was demonstrated when a Florida representative made a remarkable claim last week on the floor of the state House of…
Charity vs. Legalized Theft
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Benjamin Franklin Suppose I saw an elderly woman huddled on a heating grate in the dead of winter. She’s hungry…
The Biased Press Ignores the Deadly Results of Gun Control
Politicians say one thing and do another. They give us their best smile as they claim that up is down. A skeptical press is supposed to ask tough questions and see through the politician’s spin. Reporters are supposed to get…
How Politicians Taught Us to Fear Each Other
It is hard to believe, but we have not changed. Human nature remains the same, and the people we read about in the history books are us. For all of history, politicians pursued their own ends and told us it…
What Do You Call An Apologist For Hamas?
What Do you call an apologist for terrorist organizations and castigators of Israel? Dear Human Rights Activist, Leftist Liberal, Crying-for-the-poor-children, Israel-hating, Hamas-forgiving, marcher, celebrity, news anchor, journalist, writer, media star, politician, or head of state. We have seen you marching along the streets…
Contradictions and Absurdities
Why do we refuse to call abortion murder, if we call killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child – a double homicide? Are they only ‘people’ depending on who kills them? President Trump may have built the much-needed wall…
Marinating In Hate
“There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates,…
Joe Biden’s Actions Tell Me the 2020 Election was Stolen
You might have been uncertain at first. You thought you saw the election stolen in the early hours on Wednesday morning. Given what you’ve seen since, now you’re pretty sure the election was decided through fraud. Even Joe Biden thinks…
Founded in Liberty: Mired in Tyranny
“The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period…The United States came…
The Lessons We Didn’t Learn from Mass Murder
February 14th is the third anniversary of the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkwood, Florida. If you’re like me, it is uncomfortable to stir that painful memory. I’ve studied that attack because it would be worse to…
Did Obama Defend Slavery?
Basically, there are three types of government : 1) government of the people that embraces all forms of government, tyrannical and otherwise; 2) government for the people which embraces all forms of government while claiming to be for the good of…
Complex Lies and Simple Truths
Life is complex. Sure, in the time of Covid you can tell everyone to stay home and starve, but they won’t do it. They won’t do it even though you’re emperor Cuomo of New York. Even with all your wealth…
When Did Stupidity Become A Virtue?
The Progressive answer to all cultural tensions is more indoctrination into various left-wing ideologies that define justice as substantive equality and blame “power structure” for social pathologies up to and including murder. The world is unjust and those who are…
Creating Money From Nothing
In 2020, Fitch Ratings estimated that the world’s central banks would create a total of $6 trillion that year. Of course, they won’t literally be printing the money – that would be physically impossible. You’d have to stack $100 bills…