April 22, 2023

The coming age of AI-induced apathy

In case you have not heard, the news division of that website that creates top-ten lists and online quizzes is being shut down.  Certain people, particularly on the political right, are about as glad as the political left would probably be ...

April 16, 2023

Four authors to read before the woke censors come after them

Especially among conservative circles, it is easy to see how works published or written longer ago than the current year might come under harsh scrutiny from the editors of large publishing houses.  It is not the time to panic just yet....

November 11, 2022

Takeaways from the 2022 midterms

Disclaimer: Not all races have been decided as of this writing.  Also, I am just a person making observations.  I have no special access to election data. At this time, Nevada is still teasing Republicans that it may give them ...

October 13, 2022

Does the 'vast majority' of America agree with Joe Biden?

Recently, in his interview with Jake Tapper, President Joe Biden posed the question, asking what president in recent history has done as much as he has.  He granted that you (the viewer) might not like what he has done, but the "vast m...

October 7, 2022

Need excitement? How about some Viking reading?

This year marks some nine hundred years since Leif Erikson, Scandinavian explorer, landed on the shores of Canada.  While October 9 is not in itself particularly significant, it is as good a day as any to recall that the Norse were the...

August 3, 2022

WaPo tries humor: Black family terrorized by white doll

The news has been a bit of a downer recently, what with the ongoing war in Ukraine, a new flare-up of conflict in Kosovo, and a possible nuclear showdown between the U.S. and China.  However, about a week ago, I came across this article, an...

July 9, 2022

A Tribute to Shinzo Abe

On July 8th, Japanese former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe was shot and killed. The shooting occurred in the city of Nara, during a campaign speech for Liberal Democrat representative Kei Sato. Abe was the first former prime minister to have be...

June 25, 2022

A big 'I told you so' from Trump to Europe

President Donald Trump back in 2018 gave a speech to the U.N. General Assembly wherein, among other things, he was derided for forwarding his America First policies to the world.  In general, he did well and took opposition in good stride....

June 19, 2022

Lauren Boebert really did say Jesus needed an AR-15

I do not intend on making this a harsh criticism of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), for we all sometimes say foolish things. However, I did want to address the statement and then talk about it in light of what the Bible says. For some reason Yahoo Sports...

June 9, 2022

Joe Biden Betrays the Kurds

On June the 1st, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that he intended to use his military to once again move against the multi-ethnic Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces are the armed wing of the Roja...

June 6, 2022

Six films for the sixth of June

This Monday marks the 78th anniversary of the Allied landings of Operation Overlord — a good opportunity to share my June tradition.  That is, I watch a rotation of classic World War 2 movies.  Saving Private Ryan will not b...

June 1, 2022

Where are all the men?

On May 28, Sky News Australia posted a video titled "New York bearing signs of 'societal decay.'"  The video shows a man (who seems as if he is on drugs) entering a train car and sitting next to a young woman.  H...

May 6, 2022

The Ridiculous Charge that the Supreme Court Might End Interracial Marriage?

On Tuesday, in light of the leak from the Supreme Court on the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade, Democrat Representative from California Eric Swalwell tweeted out this little gem. In said tweet he states, “[Republicans] want to ban interr...

April 25, 2022

Was Christ a 'groomer'?

Matthew Dowd, who worked for the Bush administration as a campaign adviser, made some statements that, in general, conscientious Christian people would probably find troublesome.  Acknowledging that many people have their differences o...