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December 11, 2024
The Threat of CoolSchadenfreude can be delightful, but like chocolate, should be taken in small doses. There’s work to be done; "Election-mas" is over and while we’re still unwrapping presents in the form of cabinet appointments, we still ne...
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November 15, 2024
The Blind EyeThis last week has had all of us analyzing the results of the election. Most of us are doing so with glee and gratitude, but the Left is left scrounging up excuse after excuse, explanation after explanation, trying to avoid the truth. The Left didn...
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July 20, 2024
The Importance of Official UtterancesIn 1170, King Henry II and Thomas a' Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, got into an intense argument. In the Middle Ages, the Church and the Crown had almost equal power. Either entity could arrest, try, imprison, or execute. Either could own ...
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July 1, 2024
Gullibility 101We watch Washington D.C. like we’d watch a ship steaming way too fast toward a crowd on the pier. Our nation’s capital is so filled with corruption, ladder-climbing, and plain stupidity that it’s embarrassing to watch. This is...
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June 20, 2024
Carts and HorsesCause-and-effect is one of the first abstract ideas the human brain learns to deal with. The tiniest baby knows within his first few hours that if he cries, his mom will feed him. Even my little dogs know that if they bring me one of their chew toys ...
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June 9, 2024
Beating the Historical OddsI was about ten years old when I first learned about Joan of Arc, the 14-year-old peasant girl who, against all odds, led the army of France against the British in the Hundred Years War. I had checked out from our school library a little cloth-bound ...
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June 2, 2024
Denial and the Big TiltOf all the defense mechanisms, denial is the easiest, the most pleasant, the most available of all the psychological options. One can repress unwanted feelings, project them onto some unlucky soul, or rationalize them into nonexistence, just to name ...
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May 18, 2024
Onward Christian SoldiersNot long ago I heard that Trump had declared that he can fix our national woes in six months’ time once he regains office. Wouldn’t that be super? I don’t doubt that he can, and will, rectify a great deal of what’s amiss. He c...
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May 5, 2024
Glass WordsWe’re all worried about the state of our country, but the ability to discuss our problems in a reasonable and productive manner is eluding us. Part of this disability comes from the fact that (and I’m borrowing from Thomas Sowell here) ha...
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August 10, 2023
Fighting the Flying MonkeysAnyone watching videos of our dying cities, seeing the appalling test scores from our schools, or trying to buy groceries has to come face-to-face with the fact that we no longer live in a wholesome, productive, free country. We are not in Kansas any...
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May 30, 2023
That was Then: Soon This Will be TooMany of us feel like we’re swimming against a torrent that is rushing toward a massive waterfall. We can hear the water crashing over the edge and slamming onto the rocks below, and it’s getting louder and louder. We look to history fo...
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December 11, 2022
Reimagining the Secular FairytaleWe are frequently harangued about “reimagining” whatever it is the left wants to destroy -- reimagine sexuality, policing, education, elections. For me, “imagining” is for fairytales, for Tolkeinish worlds of orcs, hobbits, an...
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September 14, 2022
A Leaking Ship of FoolsThinking -- and doing it well -- is tricky business. This is especially true if by “thinking” you mean eventually arriving at the truth. In order to do so one must have reliable facts and terms, some understanding of the rules of logic, a...
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September 4, 2022
I Feel the Earth Move Under my FeetThis has been happening with alarming frequency: unprecedented, unlawful, horrifying events. The 2020 election left me staggered. I knew the “reality” of the Biden “win” wasn’t even remotely real and yet there it w...
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August 9, 2022
Kamala Speaks the Truth?In Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, Shylock’s servant quips, “The truth will out.” And often it does. Sometimes it wriggles to the top of an official investigation, but more often it just stumbles forth out of the mo...
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August 5, 2022
Give us Liberty or -- What?Patrick Henry understood the dichotomy our forefathers faced. And now we face the same options. We all see liberty slipping away -- no, being yanked out of our hands by forces so evil we can barely wrap our Pollyanna brains around it. Her...
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November 20, 2020
The Left's Utter NonsenseI’m at the end of my cooperative, benefit-of-the-doubt tether. I “officially” declare a monstrous national misstep and hereby refuse to believe or accept anything coming out of any anti-Trump, anti-American mouth. That means everyon...
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October 22, 2020
Living Without JusticeJustice may well be the very first inkling of moral law that blossoms in the human soul. Siblings at a very young age are quick to note discrepancies in parental approbation, quick to recognize any inconsistencies in rewards and punishments, quick to...
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August 15, 2020
Reality and Delusion in A.D. 2020I’ve been indulging in a little fantasy these last few days. Here’s what I’m imagining: Picture a virus invading the country, so we shut down borders, but since we don’t really know right away what the virus is likely to do, w...
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August 1, 2020
The New Ten CommandmentsThe original Ten Commandments were pretty basic: Believe in God. Worship no one else. Don...
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May 8, 2020
Lurking Behind the StatisticsSix months ago none of us could have imagined that America – and half the civilized world – would just be sitting around twiddling our thumbs and watching our worlds being mummified, and yet, here we are and few of us are satisfied with t...
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March 15, 2020
Screwtape RevisitedRemember C. S. Lewis’ great novel The Screwtape Letters? As a senior demon, Screwtape writes mentoring letters to his nephew instructing him in the ways of screwing up (pun intended) human beings. Uncle Screwtape writes calm, encouraging missiv...
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March 7, 2020
Standing Strong on the ConstitutionAmerica, in both its ideal and in its actuality, stands on two feet. Under those feet is a foundation of biblical wisdom and a knowledge of history that taught the founders what worked and what didn't. With enormous care, th...
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February 18, 2020
The Epic DonaldWe voting Americans need to sort out our thinking and do so before next fall. I am so tired of hearing reasonable, intelligent people express anti-Trump attitudes based on truly flimsy grounds. A relative said to me that she’d never vote ...
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January 15, 2020
Making America America AgainAll thinking people in this country have concerns about the moral state of our nation -- the rampant sexual promiscuity and perversity, our willingness to accept lying, our lack of concern about drug abuse, to name a few examples. We know in our bone...
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January 5, 2020
Our Lady of Perpetual Impeachment vs. AmericaThe question that stands before us this new year is a question that hasn’t been asked for the 244 years of our presence on the world’s stage. This election won’t be about personalities or policies or partisanship. This election is e...
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October 22, 2019
Slight of HandNothing is what it appears to be. We know this deep in our bones, but rarely do we spend much time digging into ultimate realities. America’s wealth and vitality have made it possible for most of us to entertain ourselves and go about our busin...
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September 26, 2019
Greta the AngryThose who are befuddled and beleaguered by climate nonsense look to Greta Thunberg as if she were another Joan of Arc. Those of us who live in reality see her as being hopelessly mired in the arrogance of untruth. Yes, Greta...
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August 23, 2019
The Left's NeverlandI hear more and more frequently concerns about an impending civil war. It is certain that something momentous is taking place; the signs are all around us, but I’m not at all sure that the something will turn out to be two sides of the same cou...
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August 11, 2019
Twilight Zone NationA few years ago my husband and I (having left our GPS charger at home) got lost in Montana -- which is a thing not to do. The miles are much longer there and the spaces between towns take hours to cross. We knew we’d gone wrong somewhere becaus...
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June 29, 2019
IdeoloonsOne look at the lineup of Democrat presidential candidates and I have to wonder what we’re coming to -- is this the best the party can come up with? Really? If the Democrats make up roughly half the population, then why are these people th...
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June 19, 2019
The Denizens of TentopolisPlace yourself in San Francisco or Seattle or L.A. It’s rainy, windy. You just got off the bus. You only have $20 cash and you’re hungry and tired. Where do you go? What do you do? Complicate this problem with any of the following: ...
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April 23, 2019
Living in LeftlandiaAs children we passed the time pretending to be grownups. We were doctors or cowboys or ballerinas or truck drivers. We built forts and made-up languages. We played school. We imagined our way through grand adventures –- and then, little by lit...
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March 9, 2019
The Left vs. Life in GeneralThe concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are dear, or once were dear, to the hearts of all Americans. These are the sacred rights of all human beings -- “sacred” because they are God-given and are not derived from...
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February 11, 2019
Kudos to Sandy OI am guilty of speaking badly of the new congresswoman from New York. She is obviously the product of failing educational systems unable to do anything but pump her full of fatuous self-esteem. I’d lay odds she has a large box of participation ...
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January 22, 2019
The Left vs. LogicMore and more any foray into the news feels like a trip to Bedlam – rational thought is nowhere to be found; the inmates are screeching inanities, drooling at the mouth, and throwing excrement at anyone who dares to speak truth, at anyone who e...
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January 5, 2019
How the Left Appropriates ChristianityThis mess at our southern border is stirring up the Sunday-school wannabes again, and as a Christian and a conservative I am getting tired of being schooled by liberal Christians and nonbelievers about what my opinions should be, about what Jesus wou...
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November 5, 2018
Five Truths About ElectionsElections are always important because power is always important. We are not only deciding which individuals we will place in power over us, but which ideas we will allow to control our lives. We can hold our noses and say politics stinks, or that De...
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August 31, 2018
Legalizing the ConstitutionI once had a bumper sticker that read, "Legalize the Constitution." Occasionally, I would find myself having to explain it and often to defend it. Really? Not only is the Bill of Rights no longer understood ...
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August 11, 2018
Are Millennials Educable?Picture ten-year-old Johnny, his masculinity threatened on every level, his mental and physical energy denied expression, his home life hectic and unsupportive, his continued inability to read becoming more debilitating every year, and his boredom le...
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July 18, 2018
Fragmentation and the FamilyTime was when society was a fairly simple arrangement. There were Noah and his wife and the three sons and their wives. That mini-society obviously worked well, because in just a few hundred years, human beings found the time to...
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February 21, 2018
A Weak and Crumbling FoundationWhat do humans do when they discover – albeit subconsciously – that everything they've believed in is wrong – is, in fact, evil? Are folks likely to do a face-palm; shake their heads; and say, "Can't believe ...
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November 6, 2017
Flying over the Cuckoo's NestOne would think that enough has been said about Harvey the Hutt, Kevin Spacey, and the general debauchery that is Hollywood and the halls of American power, but I find myself amazed that a couple of issues still remain unsaid, unexplored, and therefo...
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September 21, 2017
Holes in Our HeadsWe’ve all noticed that our leftist fellow-Americans have ceased to make sense. We’ve figured out that they’ve descended into redundant, irrational name-calling because they’ve lost the thread of their argument -– if ther...
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August 22, 2017
The Real NewsRecent news makes it clear that not all that needs to be said is being said. Most reports, reports rife with sly innuendo, fail to understand or admit what is really happening. I’d like to rectify that... Newflash #1: History sucks. It...
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August 13, 2017
America's Deadly SinsMost Americans are sick of self-righteous, breast-beating leftists moaning about the shame they bear for being American. They claim we have become wealthy “on the backs” of the “oppressed” –- as if no American ever worke...
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June 19, 2017
To Serve My Turn upon HimDoes anyone else have the strange feeling that we’re caught up in some Shakespearian tragedy, some skullduggery creeping through the entourage of Henry VIII? I sense spies hiding in the curtains and hear whispers behind the potted palms. I...
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June 4, 2017
Cliff-Hanging and EarthquakesThis is shocking, and in our postmodern world I shouldn’t admit it, but I like to think. I know, I know -- if I were truly cool and trendy I’d acknowledge, in grand existentialist style, that everything is just matter, therefore nothing m...
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May 7, 2017
Needing EdenAll of us –- liberal or conservative, Muslim or Christian, black or white -– are homesick. Deep inside all of us lurks a longing for something, someplace so lost in the past that we can no longer name it. I contend that we compose music i...
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April 27, 2017
Clearing the CobwebsLately, when I check the news, I feel like I’m fighting my way through a room full of cobwebs, like I’m boxing with phantoms; there are no clear, understandable positions on the left. They’re fighting, yes, but in that thrashing, fl...
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April 9, 2017
The Point of No ReturnThe point of no return, the place of no more chances, the door that slams forever shut -- these are concepts that make us cover our ears and holler, “La-la-la-la.” The Western world in the 21st century works hard to mask final realities. ...
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February 13, 2017
Getting Things DoneFor years Americans have been bemoaning the slow pace at which both the legislative and executive branches of the government “get things done.” Of course, there is the question about whether or not we really want any more laws, but we agr...
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January 26, 2017
Reality BitesLast Friday the dream came true. For nearly 25 years this country has labored under leadership that discounted the concerns of everyday, ordinary Americans, or, worse yet, tried to “fundamentally change” who we are. On Friday Donald Trump...
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January 8, 2017
Nothing but the TruthWe are all, deep in our souls, disturbed by lies -- even the left likes to complain about prevarications, if only at a surface level. Instinctively we know that a society cannot function without some level of trust. If we can’t trust what our d...
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December 25, 2016
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!Christmas marks the time when angels sang close enough to the earth that humans could hear them. Shepherds out on the hills outside Jerusalem watching over the flocks of sacrificial lambs must have been terrified at the sight of hundreds of glowing b...
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December 16, 2016
Faux News and the Value of TruthGold supplies have always been small enough to keep gold valuable. The same is true of Cuban cigars, Russian caviar, and hand-built Italian sports cars. And now we find that the truth –- about both particulars and universals -– has become...
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December 3, 2016
The Opposite of RightMany times in the last eight years we have had to endure Barrack Obama’s pontification -- “That is not who we are.” Really? Who are we? The Left has no idea. We -– all human beings -– are not what the Left likes to prete...
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November 16, 2016
Wailing and Gnashing of TeethCuts heal slowly, and they heal even more slowly if picked at and chewed on. We can, however, gain some insight into the wreckage of this election if we do a little calm analysis. I have the privilege of still being in contact with many of the studen...
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October 8, 2016
Pearls and swineIt’s time somebody laid this out. I’m tired of being told to vote on principle, to vote my conscience as if a vote for Trump couldn’t possibly fit that mold, as if wasting my precious, bought-with-blood vote on a person I...
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September 4, 2016
What a Tangled WebAs we grope toward election day we’re hearing more foggy thinking than most of us can process. We hear people say, like a broken record, that the sluggish, dwindling economy is Bush’s fault. Or it’s proof that capitalism doesn...
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August 14, 2016
A Tale of Two PowersThe news is all in a twist about the elections, and for once they have something a little right: the elections are important. However, there’s another half to the story that doesn’t get adequately discussed. There are two halves of nat...
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June 19, 2016
The Burning SandsFor the last century Western civilization has been playing make believe. We have been “slouching toward Bethlehem” across a desert filled with bones and all we seem aware of is the mirage of an oasis out on the horizon. The longer we stag...
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June 12, 2016
Science and LimitsNietzsche declared in 1882 that God was dead. Nietzsche is now dead, so we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that what he meant was that God had been removed from society. And He had. After Darwin all we had left was science -- sc...
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May 20, 2016
My Country Was of TheeObama says that we are not a Christian nation. And yet: Our father's God to, Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee we sing. Maybe we aren’t any more. Let’s define that term: It does not, nor has it ever meant, that every cit...
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April 24, 2016
Tell the GhostsRemember playing cops and robbers, reading about Nancy Drew and the thieves she was trying to catch, hearing stories about St. George and the Dragon? Good vs. evil – always the same theme. Now our heroes are dysfunctional and confused, with ang...
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April 10, 2016
Slouching Toward WashingtonI’ve lived through and paid attention to elections going all the way back to Eisenhower. Each time, people chose up sides, whacked away at the opponent, and the votes fell where they fell. Then everyone stood up, dusted off their hands, and wen...
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March 30, 2016
Those Aren’t Our ValuesI can actually feel brain cells explode every time I hear that line. That one and, “That’s not who we are.” The nonsense of those sentences needs exploration before someone carves them in stone. Let’s look at the word value...
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February 22, 2016
The Donald’s Shaky FoundationThere are two kinds of people in this world: those who, deep in their core, are bolted to bedrock, and those who are loaded on wheels, on pontoons, on hang gliders, on whatever will allow them to roll downhill or to float with the winds whenever they...
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February 7, 2016
Compromise and the Law of the Excluded MiddleSo much of political talk in the last couple of decades has been about “working across the aisle, “ to “get things done.” These discussions have been filled with a sentimental, "Kumbaya" longing, “Can’t w...
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January 18, 2016
The Wrong TurnOnce my husband and I rounded the wrong bend in the middle of Montana and, being as far from civilization as one can get in the lower 48, we drove a couple hundred miles before we knew for sure we were lost, and even longer before we finally found an...
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January 6, 2016
To Be, or Not to Be OffendedNew York City is proposing a $250,000 fine for using the wrong pronoun in reference to a transgendered person. Really?! How would you know which pronoun to use? Why would a he that used to be a she be upset if one slipped up and used the feminine pro...
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December 25, 2015
Mary -- Did You Know?That song has been reverberating in my head for a couple of weeks now. “Mary, did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water?” Did you know that “when you kiss your baby’s face, you kiss the face of God?” Wh...
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November 26, 2015
Let All Things Now LivingThe time has come for Norman Rockwell, for the gathering, the feasting, the football and I begin to realize that with the climate of the country being what it is we’re likely to lose the holiday we call Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving implies a God ...
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November 18, 2015
Sticks and StonesThe door has swung open and now we can see what’s really in there. Oh my goodness. We see actual grown people, whom we assume to be somewhat intelligent because they’re college students, but they may not be entirely human because homo sap...
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November 15, 2015
Morality: What is it good for?As the chips continue to fly off the rock that was once America, little by little an icon takes shape -- a double stone tablet bearing ancient Hebrew letters, the foundation on which people -- ordinary, troubled, imperfect people -- have built the mo...
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November 2, 2015
The Clueless GenerationEvidently human beings are programmed to look for causes. Something goes bump in the night and we grab a flashlight, and maybe a gun, and go searching for the cause. Average temperatures go up for a few years and folks start running around in circles...
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October 11, 2015
Distortions of the DreamYou never hear anyone talk about the French Dream (which sounds like something dirty) or the Sudanese Dream (which no doubt involves adequate food), or the Siberian Dream (which is probably connected to weather). You only hear about the American Drea...
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September 26, 2015
Black Lives and the Death of a Culture“Black lives matter!” say the sloppy signs. Sure. They do. Then come the chants about killing cops, and “hundreds of blacks are killed by police every year!” Who’s feeding these folks this kind of nonsense? But if we ...
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September 6, 2015
Reality Therapy for LiberalsMuch in this world is a mystery. We know about gravity, for instance, but we have no real idea what it is –- we all have moments of clumsiness that leave us cursing that force that yanks us to the ground, but we haven’t a clue how it work...
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August 23, 2015
Back to School -- Really?It’s that time again -- back-to-school ads fill the TV screen. Football teams sweat through summer practice. Teachers return to their classrooms, hoping against hope to get totally prepared for the year to come. And yet we all know that somethi...
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July 26, 2015
Our National ScorecardNations rise and fall. The fall is inevitable because people build nations, and, broken human nature always breaks out of whatever society has built to contain it. Here in America we tried something new. We tried letting each individual build his ...
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May 23, 2015
A Phobiaist's ComplaintI am so confused. Perhaps the progressives are correct and we right-wingers are inadequately subtle and nuanced in our thinking. I know that liberals speak out against labeling and stereotyping, but that confuses me too because they have built up so ...
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May 9, 2015
The Four Horsemen of the Education ApocalypseAmerica watches in horror as ravaging mobs of young, mostly black, people tear through American towns burning cars and businesses, looting and vandalizing, screaming obscenities and mindless chants. Our president blames slavery -- gone now for over 1...
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April 30, 2015
American DichotomiesWhether we’re dealing with congressional politics, religious diversity, or moral issues, it seems we end up in a morass so sludge-filled with sodden thinking that we make no progress. We slog along with phrases like “reach across the aisl...
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April 13, 2015
Let Them Eat CakeCake hasn’t been an historical pivot point since Marie Antoinette made that famous dietary suggestion, but it seems to be back. Christians who earn their livings in any way associated with wedding cakes face extinction; the gay-marriage brigade...
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February 9, 2015
The Mad Hatter's LamentEver since I saw a woman bathing in her breakfast cereal, my brain has been crumbling; I find I now live in a world where the president of the greatest, most powerful country the earth has ever known, can sit calmly for an interview with a woman in g...
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January 14, 2015
Multiculturalism and the Myth of CompromiseFor the last few decades, Western civilization has been attempting to avoid the difficult levels of thought -- analysis, synthesis, and most of all, evaluation. No one wants to be the one to point a finger and say, “That’s just wrong....
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December 25, 2014
The Star out of JacobIt’s Christmas as usual, but every year I realize that I’ve learned something new about the birth of Christ -- something that makes it all matter even more than it ever has. This year I am even more struck with the reality of Christ...
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December 20, 2014
Diane Feinstein, the Iron MaidenLanguage, that contract that we make with the members of our society, holds our society together; without it we can accomplish nothing. Nor can we function without the protection of good and selfless people who step forward to face the evil that alwa...
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December 6, 2014
Even Steven -- Fundamental Problems with EqualityThe further into the frightening future we travel, the more we will need to understand what has gone wrong with our national thinking, and more importantly, how we are going to correct it. We have spent the last 6 years listening to our dear leader c...
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November 18, 2014
Paradise and PerditionI have a confession to make: I’m addicted to PBS turn-of-last-century dramas – Downton Abbey, Mr. Selfridge, The Paradise. When it comes to these shows I’ve had to admit to being a cliché -- an old woman with her knitting, to...
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October 30, 2014
The Age of ArroganceI think the alternate term is the “Information Age,” and I’m beginning to think that, like Adam and Eve, we weren’t ready for the information we’ve accumulated, and also like our garden couple, it’s made us think we can be like God, which we obviousl...
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October 23, 2014
One Bad Apple: Obama and his InfluenceFrom the beginning America has worked to avoid the tyranny of the monarchy; our forefathers saw up close and personal the disastrous effects of a king gone bad. George III (1738 to 1820) reigned for almost 60 years -- which would have been bad enough...
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October 8, 2014
The Power of PerversityLast week I heard a young woman speak to Rush Limbaugh about the paradigm under which the younger generations operate. Her thesis was that the young have been so trained to feel bad about being white, about being well-fed, about being American, about...
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October 1, 2014
Deja vu of the Worst KindHere we are back in Iraq, jets screaming and buildings exploding, fighting the same war we just “finished.” It’s déjà vu of the worst kind; we have been here before, and this recurrent nightmare begs some troubling que...
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September 17, 2014
The Inside Scoop -- One Teacher's ExperienceSchools across the nation have opened their doors; kids dressed in their new school duds, carrying their new school backpacks have headed off for another year of learning. Their teachers have lesson plans written, and their rooms decorated. Man...
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July 28, 2014
Eleven Commandments and the Color 9A few days ago a meme that made me chuckle scrolled down my Facebook screen. The text read, “Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying smell the color 9.” No kidding! Like an elusive optical illusion, I just think I have a handl...
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July 18, 2014
Truth Telling and the Abuse of LanguageI suspect that there’s a certain amount of thought that can rattle around in a human head without the assistance of language -- a certain amount of spatial reasoning, perhaps, a baby’s silent attempt to stack his blocks -- something is go...
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May 25, 2014
The Power of PowersA few times in my life I’ve had the feeling of traveling through time. Once, on a 4th of July, we took a tour of Paul Revere’s house, and standing in his bedroom, I had the distinct sense that I had invaded a living person’s privacy...
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April 13, 2014
At the Core -- Human Nature vs. the TestCommon Core – the phrase sets off a mental picture of a multitude of hungry mouths all trying to nibble off of a shriveled apple, nothing much left but cellulose and seeds. Unfortunately, that’s an apt description. I am, like all conserva...
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March 16, 2014
Truth or Dare and the Great DivideRecall Obama daring to tell O’Reilly that the IRS harbors not a “smidgen of corruption.” Or picture him saying, over and over, “You can keep your plan.” Now hold that thought as you read. I recently wrote a piece in w...
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March 3, 2014
Ragtime and the Seven BranchesJust after Christmas of 1998 I was in New York with drama students to see plays. One of the best shows we saw that trip was Ragtime. I’ll never forget the opening scene -- three groups of people swirling toward each other -- the black...
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February 22, 2014
Going Somewhere DangerousIn a little over 200 days we'll be knee deep in what is quite likely the most important midterm election in American history. If the makeup of the Senate doesn't move decisively and dramatically to the right we may have lost everything this coun...
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February 6, 2014
Common Core and UnionitisCommon Core, Common Core, Common Core -- it's all I hear these days, as if it were a new monster at the door of the schoolhouse, as if it had never occurred to anyone that we were losing control of our children's education, as if no one had ever befo...