March 11, 2022

Liberalism's global reach

Teddy Roosevelt once defined American foreign policy as "speak softly and carry a big stick."  Foreign policy today is to export liberal democracy globally by force.  The Europeans gobbled up liberal democracy in the pos...

May 1, 2021

The tyranny of the reasonable

The tyranny of the reasonable is: if you're not "reasonable," you don't get a voice, and you don't count.  This is perfectly expressed in the 16th District Republican congressman, Adam Kinzinger. The dashing young K...

December 26, 2019

Trump, sainthood, and Christianity

Christianity Today editor Mark Galli has been roundly criticized by Evangelical leaders across the country for his call to have Trump impeached and removed from office for being "immoral" — not for what he's accused of, but f...

December 28, 2014

The Real 'Story of 2014'

Beheading has become an iconic image of a twisted level of acceptable oppression that Americans would rather overlook because of the brutality of it. The subtext of beheading is that “it is happening over there in those uncivilized lands where ...