[Combining two previous posts marking what today apparently doesn’t warrant a ‘Google Doodle’, it is the 232nd birthday of the United States Constitution. Learn it or lose it… and the liberty it was written to preserve.]Today marks the completion of …
Doubling down on their efforts to deny and rewrite reality, the New York Times today tweeted that “… airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center…”, which they’ve for some reason deleted. Why, I can’t imagine, as they also ran a full …
There are more causes than we can count for why so many people today have so little interest in living lives worth living or showing respect for human life – theirs or others. While we can’t say what causes any one person to choose to murder as many of…
I held off on responding to the news of the recent mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton. Like me, you’ve heard what happened, you too know the awful arithmetic of the casualty statistics… and the endlessly contentious talking points su…
I held off on responding to the news of the recent mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton. Like me, you’ve heard what happened, you too know the awful arithmetic of the casualty statistics… and the endlessly contentious talking points su…
Ok, so… as my Monday rant on the furor over Trump’s Tweets has faded from my blood pressure, some questions have surfaced about it – sorry, but rants being what they are, it may well not have been too clear on who or what my rant was directed at in t…
rant: Look, you might as well go read the very sensible comments upon Trump’s Tweets, which Charles C. W. Cooke had to say (H/T Dana), or go to Lindsay Graham to hear what will please the Right half of you, or go to CNN to hear what wil…
Once again, before getting to my annual reposting of Calvin Coolidge’s speech on the Inspiration of our Declaration of Independence, I want to point out, first, that our independence wasn’t begun on July 4th 1776, that was simply the end of the beginni…
I’m re-posting the post below from a few years ago, in part because in the time since the ‘Transgender Bathrooms’ issue first grabbed ahold of a news-cycle, the weeds which have sprouted from its source have spread and infested the daily news to the po…
American war dead, Flanders Field, BelgiumFrom eight years ago…Memorial Day… it is enough to remember today those who have fallen in defence of our nation. But it’s not all we can do, for them or for us, and to leave it there, I think, deprives the…
The Kansas City Star has done a good job of smearing Missouri activist Ron Calzone over his opposition to a proposed bill ‘that would add protections for LGBTQ Missourians’. But whatever you might think of Ron or his reasoning on this, what you really …
I shared a post last week that I found hopeful, concerning a small but successful program at a sizable Ivy League University that’s pursuing ‘Wisdom First, Job Skills Second’ (which is both surprising and new for today), through studying key works in t…
College: The road not chosenMuch is being said about the rich and famous buying their kids way into college. It is shocking. Sad. But what seems more shocking to me, is what these parents and students were clearly not seeking from the colleges they sou…
A friend of mine brought an article to my attention, with the catchy title of “Roberts And Kavanaugh’s Death Penalty Betrayal Again Shows Why Conservatives Never Win The Long Game On Judges”. Attention getting, eh? With a title like that, of death, bet…
A friend of mine brought an article to my attention, with the catchy title of “Roberts And Kavanaugh’s Death Penalty Betrayal Again Shows Why Conservatives Never Win The Long Game On Judges”. Attention getting, eh? With a title like that, of death, bet…