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…
This weekend leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, was one where our societal norms skipped right by the old ‘slippery slope’, and made a dash for the downward escalator of moral decay, where the earlier shock value over ‘punch a nazi!’, was left b…
Some people, especially NeverTrumpr’s, are wondering why people haven’t been especially welcoming to Mitt Romney’s ‘op-ed’ attacking Trump’s character flaws. Personally, I’m more surprised about how those NeverTrump’rs who identify as being ‘conserva…
Trump’s bump-stock ban is, to the extent that I know the details of it (still minimal), IMHO, unacceptable. Bad news. Unsupportable. A dangerous wedge. However, it’s hardly an indication of Trump’s hostility to what the 2nd Amdt defends and preserves, …
227 years ago today, December 15th, 1791, our states were united in ratifying the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America! Strange, that these same individual rights which we once understood to be so essential to l…
Remember December 7th, 1941… another morning when a world of change came out of a clear blue sky.Remember that when you hyperbolically use words to inflate minor incidents into raging crises – that a crisis that is appropriate to those words, ca…