Religious freedom is a nation’s strongest guarantee against tyranny. It is also the first target that tyrants attack. The more they succeed in destroying Christianity and the freedoms guaranteed thereto by the First Amendment, the more they succeed in ending…
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The Downside of “Normal”
I have given up on normal as a life goal, having realized that normal is just a setting on one’s dryer. Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God Now that the Covid lockdown is over,…
It’s the Nature of the Beast
It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, and political. Stir them up. Set one against…
A Desire to Dominate
The world seems to make less and less sense with each passing day. Values we once cherished and that bound civil society together face daily bombardment. Offensive things are routinely said and done to intentionally inflame and divide. Freedoms we…
The Goodists
The late firebrand Oriana Fallaci coined the term “Goodists” for those who employ politics as a means of self-congratulation. Goodists, writes Bret Stephens, put a higher premium on their moral intentions than the efficacy of their actions . . .…
Hatred for the Second Amendment
Nothing raises the hackles of dictators, tyrants, and oligarchs more than the idea of a substantially armed citizenry. Disarming present or potential opposition has been the fundamental game plan of murderous rulers since Ancient Egypt and Rome. From the more…
The Survival of Our Species
I often debate in my own mind when the U.S. Constitutional Republic officially ended. Of course, many still do not accept that as reality. But honestly, the government that occupies Washington, D.C. is a foreign government resembling nothing that America’s…
The Radical Transformation of Education
“Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.” Ambrose Bierce, For over a decade, Dr. James Pesta, associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, polled students about their attitudes…
Living a Normal Life Makes You a Threat
“We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society….Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his…
Enslaved
Truth makes room for itself. Collectivism is the enslavement of the strong by the weak, the productive by the parasitic and the good by the evil. The left rationalizes that a totalitarian rule is necessary to achieve the utopian world…
Imagine a World Without Religious Freedom
Imagine, if you can, a nation where the President can reject the entry of the Pope or any religious leader who opposes same-sex marriage. That sounds chilling, right? Democrats are working on a bill to do just that. The Global…
Freedom is Failing
What characterizes government today is not so much dysfunction as it is ruthless contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is – full of sound and fury, signifying…
Never Be a Bystander
In the history of humanity, when there are parallels in the present to past terrible times, we honor the memory of those who suffered horrifically by learning what brought forth their suffering. When we say “Never again” those words have…
Blind Obedience to Evil
Why do some people blindly obey the commands of government even if it isn’t in their best interest? Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale conducted a series of studies in the 1960s on the concepts of obedience and authority to…
Holding the High Ground
Hills are such a strategic advantage in battle that an army will do nearly anything to keep them. Holding high ground not only gives you a superior view, but your enemies have an uphill exercise to dislodge you. It’s no…