August 29, 2024

Is Bobby Junior guilty of betrayal?

When Bobby Junior endorsed Trump, a number of Bobby’s siblings released a statement saying that his endorsement of Trump was a “betrayal” of Kennedy political values.  It would horrify Uncle Jack and Bobby Senior.  ...

June 23, 2024

The Anti-Christian Mind of the Democrat Party

Watching a cable TV network the other day (I think it was CNN), I saw a brief discussion between a liberal and one of CNN’s token conservatives regarding the question of whether or not the Democrat party is hostile to religion.  In th...

February 19, 2024

Condemned to freedom

When I was young (a long time ago) existentialism was a fashionable philosophy, and Jean-Paul Sartre (a Frenchman and political ultra-leftist) was its most famous practitioner.  Probably the best-known of Sartre’s doctrines was the idea th...

February 1, 2024

Reincarnations and Revolution

People who believe in reincarnation, whether of the Hindu or non-Hindu variety, tell us the following. A human being is composed of two essential elements: body and spirit (or soul).  The two are intimately connected, the spirit controll...

December 16, 2023

Barbarism, Ho!

Decades ago, when abortion first began winning public approval in the USA, I worried that if abortion were to be generally approved, it would lead to further grim consequences.  Abortion being what it is, namely the unjust killing of a guiltless...

May 27, 2022

Bad Imitations of MLK

On a few occasions, I have ventured to make public observations about the sorry state of today’s lower-class African Americans.  It’s a large lower class -- much larger as a percentage of all blacks than lower-class whites are a perc...

September 23, 2016

Why people love Trump

For thirty or forty years, that section of the white American population that is not rich, not awfully well educated, and not liberal has been held in contempt by its opposites, affluent and well educated white liberals.  This includes those you...