February 26, 2023

The Man Who Saved the Second Amendment

In recent weeks, federal courts have begun to nullify a number of gun control laws on the grounds they violate the Second Amendment. In the Western District of Oklahoma, judge Patrick Wyrick found that prohibiting marijuana users from owning guns is ...

March 15, 2022

Ukraine deserves American support

There's a video currently circulating on social media that has been the subject of much discussion. In it, a 27-year-old "mixed martial artist" named Bryce Mitchell who competes in a sporting event called the "Ultimate...

January 18, 2019

A Tale of Two Professors

Last October 12, I related the persecution of University of Oklahoma law professor Brian McCall.  I have never met or spoken with professor McCall, but he is, by all accounts, as close to a saint as any of us is likely to meet in ...

October 12, 2018

Conservative Christians Unwelcome at the University of Oklahoma

In recent days, the nation was transfixed by the smear campaign launched against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.  In a desperate attempt to block his appointment to the Supreme Court, rabid leftists made baseless and fantastic claims.  A similar pro...

April 14, 2018

The End of Peak Oil

U.S. production of crude oil is now about ten million barrels per day, matching peak levels achieved in 1970.  The Energy Information Administration projects that U.S. oil production this year will be the highest ever re...

March 29, 2018

Should We Surrender on Bump Stocks?

In the aftermath of the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the Justice Department has proposed a new rule reclassifying "bump stocks" as machine guns.  President Trump has condemned bump stocks, and even the Nat...

December 17, 2016

Hate Speech Hysteria at the University of Oklahoma

In March of 2015, people across the U.S. were shocked to see a video showing two members of the University of Oklahoma SAE fraternity chanting racial epithets. The reaction of the OU administration was swift and draconian. The offending students were...

October 10, 2016

Why We Celebrate Columbus Day

There's hardly a more forgettable holiday than the innocuous and poorly observed Columbus Day. Celebrated in the U.S. on the second Monday in October, Columbus Day commemorates the discovery of the Western hemisphere by Christopher Columbus and t...

June 18, 2016

The return of the Law of Suspects

The French Revolution began auspiciously with the promise of “liberty, equality and fraternity.”  From this lyrical and idealistic rhetoric, France quickly descended into despotism and terror.  On September 17, 1793, the Re...

April 9, 2016

What Does the Second Amendment Mean?

It's one of the most controversial passages of the Constitution. Allegedly, it's also one of the most obscure and unintelligible sections. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, "a well regulated militia being necessar...

March 30, 2016

Trump Protestors are Thugs and Criminals

According to the U.S. news media, Donald Trump is a dangerous extremist whose rhetoric is inciting violence at his rallies. The protestors are innocent as lambs, gentle people who are being violently assaulted by Trump supporters. Trump's jack-bo...

January 31, 2016

Islam and the First Amendment

Donald Trump created a media firestorm when he called for a moratorium on Muslim immigration to the US. Trump was denounced as a xenophobic racist -- as if Islam was not a religion, but a race (go figure). Trump's announcement was apparently prom...

December 19, 2015

The Gay Agenda and the Real World

In 1975, I took a college course in psychology. The professor invited a gay man to speak to the class. He explained to us, "I'm just like you, only I prefer to have sex with men instead of women." No one objected or protested. What did ...

March 17, 2015

Teaching Racial Hatred

People across the nation were shocked to see a video showing fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma gleefully chanting racial epithets and celebrating lynching. But what remains unseen is that some faculty at the University of Oklahoma, lik...

November 4, 2011

Does America Deserve Obama?

President Obama is a socialist and a vapid demagogue who has been educated beyond the level of his intelligence.  He is the choice of a puerile and spoiled electorate who want to be taken care of and obtain handouts from a parental figurehe...

October 24, 2010

America Is Gone

There is a whiff of anarchy in the air this morning. As I sit here writing, a conservative victory in the midterm elections looms. But I find no reason to be optimistic. The midterm elections will solve nothing. The plain fact is that conservati...

September 11, 2010

Comparing Christianity and Islam

Christianity and Islam are the largest religions in the world. Thirty-three percent of the world's population are Christian, twenty-one percent Muslim. The world's two largest religions have much in common, but they are also different in some crucial...

July 5, 2010

How Europeans Invented the Modern World

Both Greece and Rome made significant contributions to Western civilization. Greek knowledge was ascendant in philosophy, physics, chemistry, medicine, and mathematics for nearly two thousand years. The Romans did not have the Greek temperament for p...

May 31, 2010

Never Give Up Your Weapons

History demonstrates that destruction awaits those who attempt to placate their enemies by surrendering their weapons. In 149 BC, half a million citizens of Carthage tried to appease Rome by turning over their armaments. But instead of buying peace, ...

May 9, 2010

The Problems with Al Gore

There are two problems with Al Gore. First, he's a demagogue who lacks an appreciation for the ethics and methods of science. Second, he's a not a scientist, but a celebrity and politician who does not understand the technical aspects of science. Put...

May 13, 2009

The Coming Ice Age

Those who ignore the geologic perspective do so at great risk.  In fall of 1985, geologists warned that a Columbian volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, was getting ready to erupt.  But the volcano had been dormant for 150 years.  So government o...