December 7, 2023

Toxic masculinity? No, essential masculinity

One of the books I’ve picked up recently is The Warrior Poet Way by John Lovell.  John is a veteran Army Ranger turned missionary turned firearms and defense instructor.  He asserts that the insanity of the modern world demands a bala...

August 6, 2023

Christianity and Muscle Memory

Muscle memory or motor memory is often used to describe something repeated so often that it becomes second nature.  Muscle memory comes to mind when we think of tasks like riding a bicycle.  Any time something is said to be revisi...

May 31, 2023

A Tale of Two Countries

Just recently, I took my wife to a local country music concert to celebrate her birthday. I was surprised by the number of people drinking Bud Light there.  Given the conservative market backlash to Bud Light’s transgender beer campaign, I...

May 23, 2023

The Astroturfing of Generation Z

In politics, the term Astroturf refers to a contrived grassroots movement.  Astroturfing is when the establishment or similar interests back a candidate or cause but deceptively hide where the support originates so that it appears as if the supp...

April 21, 2023

The Day the Music Died

On February 3, 1959, a single-engine Beechcraft 35 Bonanza took off from Mason City, Iowa, en route to Fargo, North Dakota. On board were famed rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, “The Big Bopper.” By ...

March 19, 2023

The Creepy Advent of Digital Currency

"I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They've already done it. It's called a nickel." ―Jay Leno With the recent spate of bank failures, public concern has gravitated to ...

March 2, 2023

A Subtle Way for Establishment Republicans to Sabotage Trump

The 1978 comedy Animal House depicts the charades of the rag-tag Delta Tau Chi fraternity of Faber College, clashing with Dean Wormer to maintain their university charter.  Opposing Delta Tau Chi is the neighboring prestigious Omega Theta P...

February 24, 2023

China's Spying Goes Far Beyond Balloons

“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.” ― Greta Garbo   On February 2, Americans were treated to the spectacle of a giant balloon floating...

January 24, 2023

Lip service to liberty

Liberty is defined as free choice, free will, freedom from bondage, and freedom from sin.  It derives from the old French word liberté and is a foundational idea to the United States and the Western world.  From childh...

January 18, 2023

Make 2023 the Year of Debate

The Socratic method is a form of cooperative dialogue focused on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking.  It is based on the works of the early Greek philosopher Plato and is named after Socrates, who developed this method...

December 21, 2022

The one with the government on his shoulder

We often treat life like a destination and not a process.  We live life as though we will have arrived at some point, and when we do, we can finally let down our guard and go into auto-pilot.  We will finally have the American dre...

December 9, 2022

21st Century Robber Barons: the WEF

In the 1870s, the term “robber baron” was first used to describe an exploitative class of industrialists who utilized their wealth to create monopolies of resources and amass control in the fledgling United States.  The name describe...

November 29, 2022

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

I‘ve been at this punditry thing for some time.  I sit in my humble home office, and I read, and then I read some more.  I keep a curated list of about fifty or so conservative news sites, and they aggregate the latest headlines into ...

November 27, 2022

We're So Far Downstream from Culture that We're in Hell

Robert Johnson is often considered the first rock musician and one of the godfathers of the Mississippi Delta blues.  Though his entire recording career spanned a mere seven months between 1936 and 1937, and though he achieved relatively li...

November 24, 2022

Why Plymouth Prospered When Others Floundered

It’s the time of year when postmodernists revise our understanding of history to paint a world and nation so thoroughly corrupted from its inception that propriety demands its eradication. They paint a world so depraved that our treasured momen...

October 20, 2022

To the Church: Join, or die

This past weekend, we surprised our kids with a weekend trip to see the Grammy-nominated Christian music band MercyMe at the Red Rocks amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado.  MercyMe rose to fame in the early 2000s with their crossover single ...

October 5, 2022

Pinocchio and the leftist marionettes

Last month, Disney released a live-action version of its 1940s classic film Pinocchio.  This version, starring actor Tom Hanks, retells the story of an Italian woodworker, Gepetto, who, longing for a child of his own, builds a wooden p...

September 29, 2022

DeSantis: MAGA Understudy or Saboteur?

Since my foray into politics, I have come to understand that our system comprises insiders and outsiders and that Donald Trump was the consummate outsider.  He was opposed by the system on both sides of the political aisle.  Admittedly, I c...

September 23, 2022

The Gift of Odysseus: Ranked Choice Voting

Most of us are familiar with the concept of a trojan horse.  Derived from Greek mythology, the trojan horse was a giant wooden horse constructed by the Greeks and rolled to the gates of Troy as a concession of defeat during the Trojan War. ...

September 6, 2022

California refugees versus The Art of the Deal

"My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after."   —Donald Trump, The Art of The Deal In July, my wife and ...

August 23, 2022

Do you really think our DC overlords will change?

"I'll change, baby!"  Those are the famous last words of every spousal abuser in the history of failed relationships.  If you ever hear them, run!  He (or she) won't change; they never do.  Pe...

July 24, 2022

An Appeal to Heaven

“And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven” – John Locke ...

July 8, 2022

It’s Time to Lock Down Red State Elections

America is experiencing a seismic population shift, and progressive states are leaking people, companies, and revenue faster than our porous borders can replenish them.  The recent 2020 Census showed population gains in predominantly conservativ...

June 30, 2022

Advice for young men in light of Dobbs v. Jackson

It came as a complete shock to me last week when the SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson, when society had come to accept Roe v. Wade as settled case law.  Having recently published about conservatives...

June 17, 2022

The tyranny of gentility

One of the greater challenges for the American conservative is to spurn his political taste buds in the hope of future policy gain.  It is a rare occurrence for conservatives but can pay big dividends.  For those who swallowed the...

May 13, 2022

Free speech? Absolutely!

By now most people are aware that the world's richest man, Elon Musk, levied a successful takeover of the social media platform Twitter.  The Tesla and SpaceX founder first attempted to buy a significant stake of public shares and got a...

May 2, 2022

The Impending Economic Crash

“For as Alexander Hamilton pointed out in the Federalist Papers nearly two centuries ago, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.” – Henry Hazlitt This week, Donald Trump’s favorite Latino f...

April 9, 2022

Why the Classroom Activists Never Give Up

“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” - Abraham Lincoln It is often said that when something controversial is being pounded into the public via media headlines, there is ...

March 30, 2022

Beware the Black Flag

Buried in the archives of George Washington University are declassified documents presented to John F. Kennedy by the head of the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in March of 1962, sixty years ago this month.  The contents of these doc...

March 17, 2022

Squandering our constitutional inheritance

"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war." —Reinhold Niebuhr At the close of th...

March 2, 2022

Blowback in Ukraine?

Humans are a tribal species.  Perhaps that is why our knee-jerk reaction to conflict is to pick a side and dig in our heels, hoping to land on the winning side of history.  This, unfortunately, has led to the great false dichotomi...

February 24, 2022

Bullish on Bitcoin

As a paleoconservative, I find my political lineage in classical liberalism, also known as libertarianism.  I voted for former congressman Ron Paul, and I continue to support many of the ideas that he spent a political career espousing....

February 9, 2022

How capitalism went woke

"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender, and ethnicity cannot be considered within it." —Thomas Sowell Over the past few years, I have often wondered...

January 27, 2022

Supply chains: Kick them when they're down

Have you noticed the dwindling shelves at the grocery store?  Are you still waiting on product orders placed months ago?  In our household, this is a regular observation.  School uniform items like pants and shirts that ...

January 22, 2022

Georgia sports and Georgia votes

Fourteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-four days — that is the time between the last two college football national championships at the University of Georgia.  Up until January 10, 2022, Georgia had crested the mountaintop of colle...

January 9, 2022

No moderate utopia

A central theme that I often see in Idaho is to default to labels of extremism when discussing Idaho's right spectrum.  It's a regular occurrence to read op-eds suggesting that Idaho's right has gone too far to the right and tha...

December 9, 2021

Say ‘Uncle’?

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees” – Euripides Have you had enough? We can make all of the discomforts go away quickly.  By discomfort, I’m referring to all of the asinine hoops that you must jum...

October 30, 2021

On The Origins of Covid-19

How we respond to crises often tells us a lot about the motivations of the parties involved in making public policy solutions. For instance, Donald Trump chose a federalist-style response to Covid-19 that allowed localities to target policy in a mann...

October 21, 2021

How does a Great Reset get accomplished?

Can’t they see what is going on?  I ask this question daily when I wake up and the normies around me pretend that if we jump through our designated hoops, life will go back to normal, only a new normal.  The term typically u...

October 16, 2021

School parents will save America

Has the time for normalcy bias passed?  Domestic espionage scandals involving a presidential administration, Marxist race riots, stolen elections, global pandemic — none of these affairs is normal.  Normalcy bias is the idea...

September 17, 2021

Obamacare Mutates for the Labor Market

With the announcement this week that the Biden administration will attempt a takeover of U.S. labor markets by forcing private companies to vaccinate their employees, the limits of our Constitution are being tested before our eyes.  With 21...

September 4, 2021

Ramblings of a COVID dissident

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep,...

August 21, 2021

Everything Is Not All Right

In case you haven't noticed, the Biden Administration is a dumpster fire of seeming incompetence and dementia. I don't believe that is by accident, and I believe those calling the shots wish to do harm to the United States.  A brief revi...

August 8, 2021

The Confrontation Clause and the Case of Aaron Von Ehlinger

Imagine that you’re accused of a crime. For our purposes that crime is murder. A body is found. An anonymous tipster testifies to the police that they saw you commit the murder.  It just so happens that the murder was committed outside of ...

July 28, 2021

It's Time to Return to Vigorous Medical Debate

The world has been living with COVID-19 for more than eighteen months now.  I think they call this the new normal.  If by now you haven't developed natural immunity to the virus, there are a half-dozen or so COVID-19 vaccines ...

July 1, 2021

One way schools could fix education (that they'll never take)

What motivates a child to succeed?  That is the central question that should be asked on matters of education. Since at least the inception of the Department of Education in 1980, the emphasis on education is always placed on socializing...

June 20, 2021

Stop Tearing Down Men

It's Father's Day weekend.  Here in Idaho, the women just finished an annual women's-only bike ride that attracts participants from around the world.  At one point, I contacted them on social media to ask if there...

June 9, 2021

Communicable Victimhood

Of late, my children have come home from school exhibiting symptoms of the pandemic. I’m not referring to coronavirus, I’m referring to the pervasive victimhood disease that has become so commonplace in American Society. It usually presen...

June 2, 2021

To Save The Republican Party, the GOP Must Die

The GOP must die. The Grand Old Party is over and unsalvageable. The name finds its origin in the post-Civil War era as the party that saved the Union, but whatever positive connotations may have come with the GOP moniker are dead and gone now. ...

May 15, 2021

Skills Not Schools: Lessons from the Renaissance

Renaissance education is the foundation of the modern university system. It was based on the concept of the Universal Man or Uomo Universale.  As mankind was the ultimate creation of God, it was man’s job to reach his maximum by continual ...