After nearly two full years of scrutiny what have we found? There is a complexity and simplicity to every matter in life. As it pertains to the future of 300 million Americans it behooves us to ponder the essence, the…
Without plunging into an op-ed vortex of impossible questions and unlikely answers the simple answer would be – yes! America has been in decline for decades, but under Barack Obama it was nearly a ride to liberal hell in…
“My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it’s founded on no judgment…
“Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.” – 1 Corinthians 14: 20 Republicans are taking the Sunday school approach to Donald Trump. In Sunday school children are taught that all…
In a smoke-filled college dorm room somewhere in this country, several students lament the failures of capitalism and the United States while offering simple, broad brushed idealistic solutions to the world’s nuanced issues. Between tokes they discuss income inequality, the…
God help us. If our 35th president, fiscally profligate, contemptuous of civil liberties, and criminally reckless abroad, is a paragon of modern conservatism, conservatism is in even worse shape than I thought. Gene Healy I have seen several posts on…
How do you know you’re being had by a slick politician? Writing in Mein Kampf about how to manipulate people and win power, Adolf Hitler said that since the average person had a very limited memory and a “slowness of…
Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco — and Michelle Obama left her brain in 1954. Addressing graduating high-school students the other day in the Topeka, Kansas, school district, the federal lunch lady said, referring to the Brown v.…
President Trump denies having used a vulgar term last Thursday to describe dysfunctional Third World countries. Yet there’s no denying that the leftist media, believing he did, responded by repeatedly disgorging the term in a childish orgy of decadence. Of…
With storied statues having come down from sea to shining sea the past year, it’s time for the same to happen with something somewhat newer: the socialist-born plaque in the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal. Yeah, it’s the one with…
If liberals were animals, if would be a marked improvement. For one thing, animals don’t lie. Ever since President Trump characterized MS-13 gang members as “animals,” Democrats have been playing dumb (when they haven’t actually been dumb) for political gain.…
“The murderous hatred against the Jews that has accompanied the history of our people has not disappeared; it has just been replaced with a murderous hatred of the Jewish state. What has changed since the Holocaust is our determination and…
Science is a very powerful method of gaining and applying knowledge. In this sense, science per se is amoral, and while it has a large domain, it is not the end all and be all. It can tell us truth…
In the 2004 movie “National Treasure”, Agent Sadusky played by Harvey Keitel, explained to Ben Gates played by Nicholas Cage, the ramifications of his breaking the law meant: “Someone’s got to go to prison, Ben.” Ben responds: “Well, if you’ve…
Man does not live on bread alone; man is, as the ancients knew, a social animal. However, the great revelation of Christian anthropology is that man is also a cultural animal. The word culture is rooted in the Latin word…
