The number of daily deaths from Covid-19 peaked two months ago, yet the media turned their outrage up to 11. We were told that President Trump is dangerous, and so is the rest of the United States. We are irresponsible…
Tag: politics
This Is Why We Cannot Put Our Trust in the Supreme Court
I remember that sinking feeling as the election results were announced in November 1992. William Jefferson Clinton would be the next president of the United States. George H. W. Bush was out. Yet we were so close to having a…
We Are on the Precipice of a Very Dangerous Culture
In recent days, a number of commentators have compared the year 2020 with 1968 (for my article, see here). But we have not discussed the larger cultural shift that took place as a result of the counterculture revolution of the…
Being Horribly Wrong Doesn’t Affect Our Elites
I pay for my mistakes. That is why I try so hard to learn from them. It is too expensive to make the same mistakes over and over, unless you’re a member of the elites. A medical model of the…
Is the Media Engaging in Psychological Warfare Against America?
A recent article written primarily by a medical doctor in Alabama claimed that, “The way in which the media has pushed fear nonstop amounts to psychological warfare against this country.” He added, “If it hasn’t occurred to you that we…
The Lies the Legacy Media Will Tell Us
The legacy media lies. They lie to us in order to manipulate our opinion and to make more money from their advertisers. Those facts aren’t news. It doesn’t take much imagination to write the “epidemic” headlines that are headed our…
Your Business is Essential
What the hell is an essential job and an essential business? Who is more essential, the cop, or the kid in the mall-kiosk who fixes my phone? Fortunately, that decision shouldn’t be up to a politician or a judge. It…
This Isn’t a Public Health Problem
We were told that the police have to force us to behave certain ways because of a public health emergency. That doesn’t make sense. The actions of our politicians don’t match their words. If cops who are not wearing a…
Did Shelter in Place Save Lives or Cost Them?
Covid-19 might kill 100 thousand of us in the US, but maybe not. We still have hope that it will kill far fewer. What we do know is that putting 200 million people under a relaxed house-arrest costs lives too.…
It’s Not About Your Health
Spring has arrived here in Wisconsin. Flowers and trees are beginning to blossom as the warmer temperatures and sunny days remind us that God’s amazing creation is still doing what He designed it to do. It’s safe to say that…
Coronavirus and Politics- a disease of the haves and the have nots
My friends are out of work. One of my friends had to terminate hundreds of her employees and give them their last paycheck. Politicians turned the flu into a political weapon. Now, small business owners face bankruptcy if they stay…
Which “New Normal” do You Mean?
The good news is that most of us are headed back to work. Unfortunately, we’ve seen too many new things during quarantine to be sure about our new “normal”. We’ve seen citizens and politicians behave horribly. The new normal isn’t…
America “the Evil Empire”?
Movie director Oliver Stone told the television program Russia Today that America is now “the evil empire.” This is in reference to President Reagan’s famous remark in the mid-1980s that the Soviet Union was “the evil empire.” Reagan got a lot of flak from…
No Cops to Save You, but Too Bad You Couldn’t Get a Gun to Protect Yourself
You might not have wanted a gun before, but now you do. You’ve seen the empty shelves in grocery stores. You read in the news that some police departments are taking longer to respond because of the outbreak of the…
Are Bureaucrats Shutting Down Schools for Their Benefit, or for Yours?
Local schools are closed due to the Wuhan virus. Is that a good idea, or a bad one? The lockdown is bad news if you’re a young, ordinary family with two working parents of school-age children. The shutdown is great…