E. Jeffrey Ludwig

E. Jeffrey Ludwig


  • Concerns About Drones Have Not Been Allayed

    December 18, 2024

    Concerns About Drones Have Not Been Allayed

    On February 13, 2023, John Kirby appeared with Karine Jean-Pierre at a press conference to “explain” in diplo-speak the reasons for our shooting down the Chinese spy balloon. At best, his remarks could be seen as attempts to mollify ...

  • President Biden’s Pathetic Public Life

    December 5, 2024

    President Biden’s Pathetic Public Life

    Many TV outlets are obsessed with President Biden’s pardoning of his son.  The pro-Democrat outlets defend Biden’s assertion that political motivations within the Justice Dept. are driving prosecution of his innocent son (sic)....

  • The Path to Recovery Has Just Begun

    November 26, 2024

    The Path to Recovery Has Just Begun

    We Trump-supporters are tempted to exult in his victory over the leftist attack on American history and culture that is the policy hallmark of the Democrat party.  Trump-supporters are not only offended by the distortions of the woke agenda...

  • Time to Reinstate Bible Reading and Prayer in Our Schools

    November 10, 2024

    Time to Reinstate Bible Reading and Prayer in Our Schools

    In the late 1940s, Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, in the case of Everson v. United States, took a quote from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson out of context and insisted that the wall of separation between church and state “...

  • President Trump has a vision for the USA

    October 29, 2024

    President Trump has a vision for the USA

    If President Donald J. Trump is re-elected as our 47th president, we will see the renewal of our economy and social order as he has promised. Tariffs will be raised on goods manufactured abroad by U.S. companies as an incentive to bring the manufactu...

  • Walz-Vance debate revealed differences (but was too friendly)

    October 2, 2024

    Walz-Vance debate revealed differences (but was too friendly)

    Tim Walz and J.D. Vance debated Wednesday night.   The debate was gracious on both sides. The moderators of the debate asked a number of policy questions, and each candidate answered giving some deference to the other candidate and in mo...

  • The Democrat Party’s False Words

    September 25, 2024

    The Democrat Party’s False Words

    In T.S. Eliot’s classic poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” one of the lines reads, “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.”  These eleven words capture the superficiality of the e...

  • The Loss of America’s Transcendent Values

    September 15, 2024

    The Loss of America’s Transcendent Values

    Earlier this year, West Point's superintendent announced that West Point would modify its mission statement to drop “Duty, Honor, and Country” in favor of "the Army Values," a reference to a broader set of seven attributes t...

  • Trump v. Harris: A Choice To Be Made

    September 11, 2024

    Trump v. Harris: A Choice To Be Made

    “The President is the worst President in U.S. history, and the Vice-President is the worst Vice-President in U.S. history.” With these final, summary words, Pres. Trump condemned both the sitting President Joe Biden and the Vice-Pres...

  • Obamacare Is Still Ruining Your Doctor Visits

    August 18, 2024

    Obamacare Is Still Ruining Your Doctor Visits

    Here’s an important segment of the social engineering component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed under the Obama presidency: The ACA provides a strong emphasis on preventive medicine and primary care through insurance reform, incre...

  • Western Civilization in Decline

    August 12, 2024

    Western Civilization in Decline

    After witnessing the first detonation of the atomic bomb in New Mexico, J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant Princeton University physicist who helped lead the Manhattan Project, remembered a line from the Bhagavad Gita and compared the explosion...

  • Trump’s Courage and Biden’s Failures

    July 24, 2024

    Trump’s Courage and Biden’s Failures

    “If I am killed I can die but once,” Lincoln was fond of saying, “but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.” Pres. Trump’s clenched fist pumping in the air as he repeated “Fight!! Fight! Fight!...

  • Election 2024: It’s More About Ideology

    June 29, 2024

    Election 2024: It’s More About Ideology

    The first debate fully revealed the cognitive impairment of Pres. Joe Biden.  His speech was slurred, he spoke too softly, his face exhibited a dazed expression, there were many verbal errors such as saying “trillions” when he m...

  • Searching for America’s Identity

    June 23, 2024

    Searching for America’s Identity

    The struggle to define the guiding principles of the American “experiment” has intensified in recent years.  The left’s attempt to degrade and sabotage the American experience has widened with each passing decade. ...

  • America In Decline

    June 11, 2024

    America In Decline

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, looking at the disintegration of our society, finds considerable truth about the causes of this disintegration in the writings of Yuri Bezmenov (a KGB agent who defected from the Soviet Union in 1970). He described the subversion pro...

  • Iranian Incompetence a Source of Hope

    May 28, 2024

    Iranian Incompetence a Source of Hope

    Last month, Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles towards Israel.  The attack included 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles, none of which entered Israeli territory.  Of the 120 ballistic missiles fired by Iran, about half ...

  • Moral Anarchy: An Understatement

    April 28, 2024

    Moral Anarchy: An Understatement

    A recent article published by AT ended with the following ominous sentences: “If the USA is unlikely to become once again an overwhelmingly Christian nation (and this seems to be the case), where will we turn for a new morality?  Is i...

  • The American left and the Ten Commandments

    April 3, 2024

    The American left and the Ten Commandments

    On March 30, an article on Fox News stated that Karine Jean-Pierre (White House spokeswoman, noted for her high school–level articulation) said “that the ‘trans community’ in America is ‘under attack.’” ...

  • The Long, Horrifying Collapse of Discipline in NYC Public Schools

    March 3, 2024

    The Long, Horrifying Collapse of Discipline in NYC Public Schools

    The New York Post recently ran an article about overt aggression in a school called Origins High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. against a Jewish female teacher as well as threats to Jewish students at the school.  The high school has 40% Muslim s...

  • The Pathetic and Repulsive Thought of the United Nations

    February 10, 2024

    The Pathetic and Repulsive Thought of the United Nations

    Section 52 of the 91 sections of the U.N.’s Agenda 2030 global takeover plan begins, “‘We the Peoples’ are the celebrated opening words of the U.N. Charter.  It is ‘We the Peoples’ who are embarking today...

  • Agenda 2030:  A Power-mad Document

    February 1, 2024

    Agenda 2030: A Power-mad Document

    The United Nations Agenda 2030, Section 18 of 91 sections, begins with the following words: We are announcing today 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 associated targets which are integrated and indivisible. Never before have world leader...

  • January 25, 2024

    Agenda 2030 Communicates an Evil Agenda

    Agenda 2030, the U.N.’s formal plan for the creation of a new world government, contains 91 sections.  It begins with the following vacuous but revealing words: This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. I...

  • January 3, 2024

    The United States is in A Dark Place

    We are in a dark place as a country. This is a direct result of the extreme shift to the Left by the Democrat Party. Prior to 2020, President Barack Obama was our most far-Left President. But even Obama was still on the cusp between being an ext...

  • December 17, 2023

    Are You Ready for Pre-Pre-Apprenticeship Programs?

    During the second week of this month, New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams announced “An Action Plan for Young Adult Career Success.”  According to the press release, this “action plan” provides more than $600 mill...

  • November 29, 2023

    Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation and the Nature of American Government

    In October 1789, President George Washington issued a thanksgiving proclamation “to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor…....

  • November 8, 2023

    Mike Johnson’s Faith Calls Us to Greater Integrity

    In his remarks after being elected House speaker, Mike Johnson said, “I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear: that God is the one who raises up those in authority.  He raised up each of you.  All of us.”...

  • October 7, 2023

    Corruption Is Driving the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

    In a recent article, Jonathan Tobin reviewed the events surrounding the introduction by Anthony Roka, Speaker of the Canadian House in Ottawa, of Yaroslav Hunka as a 99-year-old Ukrainian hero in World War II who was in attendance in the Canadian Hou...

  • September 24, 2023

    Sex and Ethics

    Matt Walsh was on a video arguing with someone claiming to be a member of the opposite sex.  He succinctly noted that a human being has two legs.  If someone did not have two legs, lack of legs would indicate he has a problem, not...

  • August 16, 2023

    Negotiations Cannot Bring Peace Between the USA and Islam

    Caroline Glick, a master of Middle East cultural and political affairs, has developed a brief but forceful overview of the dynamics of the complex negotiations that are going on and have been going on for years between and among the U.S., Saudi Arabi...

  • August 4, 2023

    The USA's Turn toward Communism

    A truly evil cabal has taken control of the Democrats.  It took effect when the pact between the Sen. Joe Biden camp and the Sen. Bernie Sanders camp was signed in July 2020.  The pact was a 110-page position paper on many nationa...

  • July 22, 2023

    Fall of Rome, Fall of the USA

    This article will look at two causes of the Roman Empire's collapse and see the extent to which its defects can be applied to the decline of the USA as the leading world power.  While the influence of the USA cannot be considered imperi...

  • July 13, 2023

    America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded

    A severe mental and emotional breakdown on a mass scale is taking place.  Or, as my closest friend recently put it, “America is going insane.”  The issues we face are not only those about which reasonable people might disagree, ...

  • June 29, 2023

    Garbage Thinking and the Desire for a World Government

    In a recent article attacking the false and selfish values of the World Economic Forum and Agenda 2030 of the United Nations, three of the five pillars of Agenda 2030 were revealed as ideological nothingburgers.  All five terms by which Age...

  • June 21, 2023

    The World Economic Forum and U.N. Agenda 2030

    Many articles are being published about the globalist agenda being put forward by the World Economic Forum and its megalomaniacal leadership, first and foremost Klaus Schwab, but also including Bill Gates and a mysterious figure Dr. Yuval Noah Harari...

  • June 15, 2023

    Useless Political Definitions of Anti-Semitism

    In a recent article, Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer beautifully communicates his disgust with the recent Biden Administration’s 60-page paper supporting three different definitions of anti-Semitism. Fischer and other Jewish organizations pre...

  • May 26, 2023

    The Extensive Corruption of Morals in the USA

    Ten plagues were needed to deliver the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.  We need ten miracles to deliver us from the immoral trash that is being heaped upon us every day! We are faced with a sea of troubles besetting the USA. ...

  • April 29, 2023

    Talking Heads and the Matrix

    In a recent article by Paul Joseph Watson, we are told that a former army psy-ops officer has authored a scathing commentary on the firing of Tucker Carlson.  While it is not clear to this or possibly any reader why an army psy-ops officer shoul...

  • April 16, 2023

    America's Decline Is Not Biden's Fault

    Not long ago, this writer was riding a subway train in New York City to keep a medical appointment.  The train stopped at 36th Street to let out and to receive passengers.  My mind shifted to memories of a mass subway shooting at ...

  • March 28, 2023

    Trump Showed Us That We Are Losing Our Liberties

    In a recent article, Geoffrey P. Hunt expressed disillusionment bordering on disgust with former President Donald J. Trump.  Basically, he presents a list of failures or areas of neglect that show Trump’s inability to overthrow the “...

  • March 6, 2023

    The Courts vs. Marriage

    On Dec.13 of last year, the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA) became law. This was only six days after the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Our President at that time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, said that December 7 was a date “that will liv...

  • February 12, 2023

    The Vanishing Moral Roots of the U.S. Founding

    In a recent article about the moral decline of the U.S., Michael Bresciani noted that a recent Gallup survey indicated that the respondents selected poor leadership, inflation, and immigration as the most important problems facing our count...

  • January 6, 2023

    Thought Control and Morality on Campus

    Throughout the campus of a major urban university, two signs dominate.  They are found inside and/or immediately outside every elevator on campus.  One sign is a list of eight sexual harassment behaviors that are rejected and deemed despica...

  • January 3, 2023

    Gender Transitioning: An Assault on Parenting

    As the new year began, this writer had a disturbing dream.  In this dream, parents had to document their childrearing to a bureau of experts called the Children First Agency for the Protection of Young Life (CFAPYL).  The agency would ...

  • December 24, 2022

    The Rejection of 'Merry Christmas'

    “Merry Christmas” as a greeting or as a cheerful blessing of citizen-to-citizen or neighbor-to-neighbor is vanishing.  Invariably, when I wish someone in a store or in my neighborhood a Merry Christmas, they respond by saying “...

  • November 30, 2022

    The Guilty Justify Their Cruel and Anti-Social Values

    The trial of Darrell E. Brooks for the intentional vehicular homicide of six persons and the injuring of 61 other persons at a Thanksgiving/Christmas parade on November 21, 2021 is now concluded.  Brooks was found guilty of all counts and has be...

  • November 20, 2022

    Wisconsin's Waukesha killer gets sentenced, but justice has not been served

    Darrell Brookes, who mowed down a Christmas/Thanksgiving parade full of people in a car attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Nov. 21, 2021, has been sentenced to six consecutive life sentences for homicidally driving into the crowds and ki...

  • November 10, 2022

    The loser's philosophy of the Democrats

    The election results are, to put it mildly, not a total repudiation of Democrat party leadership and values as many conservatives and Trump supporters like myself had hoped for. Thus, in a word, the results are disappointing. Tens of millions...

  • November 3, 2022

    Must New York City Double Down on Leftism?

    New York City is a bastion of left-wing politics.  The city's soft-on-crime approach combined with a state-implemented no bail policy for certain arrests has led to the release of people arrested who then keep committing crimes over and...

  • October 22, 2022

    Waukesha Mass Murderer Treated With Kid Gloves

    The influence of Critical Race Theory is apparent in the trial of Darrell Brooks for the automobile massacre of six innocent people and injury to 60-plus individuals at a parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin in November 2021.  Additionally, we can...

  • October 11, 2022

    The Bizarre Circus-Trial of the Wisconsin Christmas Parade Murderer

    The trial is underway in Wisconsin for Darrell E. Brooks, who is charged with "six counts of intentional homicide with the use of a dangerous weapon (his SUV), and more than 60 counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety and six counts ...

  • October 9, 2022

    Our zeal for Him is a response to his love for us

    “Grace turns a saint into a seraph. It makes him burn in holy zeal….But there is…something looking like zeal, which it is not.” – Thomas Watson When I was 30 and living on a commune in Maine in 1970, I picked up a B...

  • October 1, 2022

    Stop Having Fantasies of a Democratic Iran

    Jonathan Tobin is an intelligent, informed commentator on political issues, but he consistently underestimates the dangers and wrongs presented by the world’s evildoers. In this vein, he was pleased to state in a recent article “Still, wh...

  • August 25, 2022

    The U.S. Should Not Negotiate With Iran’s Bloodthirsty, Evil, Dictatorship

    In a recent article about the ongoing Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiations with Iran, the author, Bryan Leib, states: “The Iranian people want liberty, religious freedom and peace with their neighbors.” ...

  • August 11, 2022

    Gutless American Leadership Drifts into Corruption and Decay

    In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Holman W. Jenkins wrote about the recent search (raid) of our 45th president's Mar-a-Lago palatial home.  Jenkins's long-winded analysis concludes: "Don't put it past Mr. Garland...

  • August 5, 2022

    The Evil Origins of Our Bad Biden Era

    The present poor decisions in every sector of our society's life — economics, foreign policy, education, citizenship values, human sexuality, and ethics — suggests a conscious effort to undermine longstanding institutional and social ...

  • May 26, 2022

    The Sinister Roots of Build Back Better

    President Joe Biden and the puppeteers who control his teleprompter are weakening the country in order to gain more power and restructure the country based on classical Marxism (government ownership of the means of production) as well as woke cultura...

  • May 8, 2022

    Does Education Need More Kindness?

    This writer recently was invited to participate in an online tele-workshop about the "pedagogy of kindness."  The invitation linked the recipients to an article about the pedagogy of kindness written about three years ago. ...

  • March 23, 2022

    Obama's Third Term and the Destruction of the American Polity

    The paradigm of seeking a balance between the federal government and states began to cave during the Obama years.  Now, under Biden, the abandonment of the federalism paradigm is picking up steam, and we see an attempt to sabotage federalis...

  • March 15, 2022

    The Four Pillars of Vacuity

    The recently appointed New York City schools chancellor David Banks portrays himself as righteous, as an idealist, and as a reformer. According to him, he is a man with a vision to make right a broken system. It is a given of new hires to this positi...

  • March 12, 2022

    Is the U.S. Promoting Worldwide Bioterrorism?

    On Thursday, March 9, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs stated that there was biological research taking place in Ukraine. Then, in a follow-up question by Sen. Marco Rubio, she stated emphatically that if any biologica...

  • March 7, 2022

    Russia and Ukraine: Hidden Demons Break Loose

    When it comes to the Russo-Ukrainian war crisis, we are witnessing a strange mixture of indignation and apathy in both Europe and the USA.  Why are so many people concerned about Russia's winning, yet at the same time no one is wishing ...

  • January 30, 2022

    Wokeism Contains the Seeds of Its Own Destruction

    In a recent article, N.S. Lyons takes a sardonic yet, in this writer's view, overly respectful assessment of the present and future success and prospects for wokeism in American culture.  On the one hand, he perceives this woke subcultu...

  • January 19, 2022

    Don't Get Cocky about the Midterms

    We are hearing a lot of people expressing happiness at the low Biden poll numbers, and some are looking forward to a Democrat crash later this year.  One conservative outlet stated, "The polling confirms voters are fed up with Mr. Bide...

  • December 29, 2021

    Do Democrats Want to Build Back Better, or Do They Want a Coup?

    In a recent article, the brilliant commentator Victor David Hanson asks, "What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy's future from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams, and other elite intellectuals and media...

  • December 12, 2021

    Decades of Communist Pushing Will Get You a Communist America

    In the late 1990s, this writer took a position teaching history, government, and economics in a New York City public high school.  After only two weeks, word circulated that I was a born-again evangelical and politically conservative. ...

  • November 11, 2021

    What Is an America that Holds Prisoners Indefinitely without Charging Them?

    The U.S. is facing a serious constitutional crisis over the handling of the cases of defendants in the Jan. 6 so-called "insurrection" in Washington, D.C. to protest the presidential election modus operandi and the results.  Those...

  • October 30, 2021

    Should The Founding Principles of the United States Be Retained?

    Would it be useful or realistic to rename Manhattan and call it Transhattan in respect of gender fluidity?  Would that new name not also reveal that not only is gender fluid, but New York City is fluid in the sense of being a crossroads of ...

  • October 20, 2021

    The Specter of One World Government Looms Large

    The U.N.'s Agenda 2030 is still in place, and the clock is ticking toward its empowerment — only eight years and two-plus months to go.  This Agenda is for a new world government, which will implement the policies of the Agenda. ...

  • October 10, 2021

    America is Being Sabotaged: Destruction of Prosperity and Freedom is on the Horizon

    To many observers, our Southern border policy is wrong-headed, our Afghanistan withdrawal was a fiasco, and the Democrat party’s $3.5 trillion, 2,500-page budget "reconciliation" is egregiously unwise as well as too long and obscure....

  • August 28, 2021

    Presidential Mideast Failures Didn't Start with Biden

    Pres. Joe Biden is an incompetent individual.  That is apparent.  And since the present endgame of our Afghan fiasco is on his watch, he gets to be and should be the whipping boy, who can be blamed for the humiliation of our count...

  • August 15, 2021

    American Jobs Bill: Fantasy, Fiasco

    The American Jobs Plan (AJP), AKA The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act, is a proposal by U.S. president Joe Biden to spend $2 trillion on U.S. infrastructure over eight years.  A Fact Sheet outlining...

  • August 12, 2021

    My Hospital Stay Showed We're Careening toward Socialized Medicine

    As a retiree from high school teaching in NYC, we have Medicare (80%) and supplemental insurance (20%).  Effective Jan. 1, our insurance will be NYC Medicare Advantage Plus Plan and will be administered by Emblem Health and by Blue Shield,...

  • July 20, 2021

    Isn't It about Time to Stop Lobbing Ridiculous Accusations at Trump?

    The Donald J. Trump–bashers have been saying for years, "Trump should go to jail!"  This hostile attitude is intended to retaliate for his saying to Hillary Clinton in one of their debates that if he were in office, she woul...

  • July 8, 2021

    A Vacuous and Potentially Dangerous Response to Domestic Terrorism

    On June 15, the White House issued a "Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism."  This fact sheet is strangely devoid of facts and is vacuous in the extreme, but it communicates that the present administrati...

  • June 10, 2021

    China Shows that Money Does Not Necessarily Lead to Peace

    Towards the end of March of this year, delegations from the People's Republic of China and the U.S. Dept. of State convened in Anchorage, Alaska to discuss various issues related to trade between the two countries.  Although the press d...

  • May 26, 2021

    When Everyone's Wrong in the Debate over Prostitution

    Traditionally, an activity of female bondage and corruption is now being called by some an expression of female liberation.  This writer received an advertisement from Oxford University Press offering me a complimentary copy of a book on a ...

  • April 3, 2021

    The Foul Odor of Congressional Civics Reform

    On March 11, the Civics Secures Democracy Act, which supposedly will serve to improve the understanding of civics in elementary, middle, and high schools, was introduced into the present session of Congress, both House and Senate.   Ho...

  • March 15, 2021

    The Top 1% Are Not Causing the USA's Problems

    This writer knows a leftwing corporate lawyer who sees our society as top-heavy with a rich, exploitative class drinking glasses of champagne while there are millions of starving children in America, millions of homeless in the streets, degradation a...

  • February 21, 2021

    A Fifty-Year History of Anti-Patriotism in the United States

    Patriotism is under attack.  The idea of the cultural Marxists on the left is to replace traditional patriotism with a different vision of the meaning of American nationalism from the vision that has obtained since 1776, although that tradi...

  • February 11, 2021

    The American Flight from Freedom and Mental Health

    Zbigniew Janowski's latest book, Homo Americanus, states clearly in its preface that "[t]his book revolves around four topics: the state of America and democracy today, liberalism, equality, and totalitarianism."  Ac...

  • January 13, 2021

    Computers Voting Instead of People in Our Brave New World

    With the 2020 election results now set to stand, whether it's a coup or pure laziness, or computer glitches, or diabolical machinations or some combination of these, we now have what I call "a stealth government."  T...

  • December 27, 2020

    If It's Biden, Expect Wholesale Rejection of American Core Values

    With this presidential election, American history is hanging in the balance, but not as in the past, where we perceived the implementation of unwanted policies if the wrong candidate should win. In this post-election scenario, a Biden administration ...

  • December 15, 2020

    2020's fraud-laden presidential election broke the Ten Commandments

    Clearly, fraud — i.e., removal of our votes or undermining the aggregate values of our votes — has taken place in this presidential election.  We see more mail-in ballots being counted in some places than were sent out. ...

  • November 7, 2020

    The Cure for America's Moral Decline Is Four More Years of Trump

    The signs of theft and fraud in the presidential election are everywhere, but the Republicans are unwisely starting to cave.  On Fox's The Five, the panel — including the intensely pro-Trump Jesse Watters — were, as of Novem...

  • November 1, 2020

    Trump's America First Vision Must Defeat UN's Agenda 2030 Globalism

    A shadow hanging over the United States of America is the United Nations' desire to move toward a world government, expressed most recently in the U.N.'s Agenda 2030.  Not one question about this document has been directed toward ei...

  • October 16, 2020

    Savannah Guthrie disrespected the president at last night's town hall

    On Thursday night, President Donald J. Trump arrived to participate in a town hall on NBC with questions from a variety of voters, some undecided, some committed to Joe Biden, and others who had voted for him in 2016 and planned to do so again. ...

  • October 10, 2020

    Why the Democrat Platform Is Boring on Purpose

    The Democrat Party Platform, released for public scrutiny on July 27, reads like the late-night, tired comments of a teacher of economics reviewing existing legislation and possible improvements as he prepares for a lecture.  The document l...

  • September 30, 2020

    The first presidential debate: A quagmire and a farce

    The first televised debate between President Donald J. Trump and his opponent, former vice president Joe Biden, took place on Tuesday night, Sept. 29. Each candidate was given two minutes to respond to a question.  Then there c...

  • August 21, 2020

    A New Consciousness Is Replacing Education

    The public does not know that for many schools K–12, when the schools are open under normal circumstances, what is called "learning" is minimal.  At least half of the students are in a non-educational or anti-educational mod...

  • August 12, 2020

    The Philosophical Background of Our Anti-Social Democratic Party

    For almost two centuries, we have seen various attempts to overthrow the assumptions, beliefs, premises, and conclusions of Christian ethics, sometimes called Judeo-Christian ethics.  The Christian worldview and its underlying belief system...

  • July 4, 2020

    Is the Declaration of Independence Sufficiently Appreciated?

    Today’s turmoil in the streets does not reflect either the spirit or the logic on which our country was founded.  The offense at the death of George Floyd has morphed into a turbulent objection to America as the mother of all hatred a...

  • June 11, 2020

    The Wound to Our Social Order Is Deep and Pervasive

    Fifty years plus one month ago, a student protest against the Vietnam War took place on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio.  The National Guard had been sent at the request of the mayor of Kent.  They fired on the protest...

  • April 25, 2020

    When Communism Is OK in America, Patriots Must Resist Harder

    With the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the Cold War virtually disappeared.  In the 1990s, the People's Republic of China (PRC) was admitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO).  Under Deng Xiaoping (premier of China,...

  • April 14, 2020

    'Social Action' as a Bogus Alternative to True Education

    While sitting at home with my bottle of hand sanitizer, I received an email from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) asking me which topics from a list of pressing concerns I would like to receive emails about.  The UFT has 200,000 memb...

  • March 8, 2020

    America's Declining Sexual Morality

    The decline in sexual morality we see in our era did not begin in the year 2000.  Today's "sexual revolution" is expressed by our being told by the highest court in the land that homosexual marriage can and must be married and...

  • March 1, 2020

    Robert Spencer on Israel's Struggle for Survival

    Robert Spencer recently published The Palestinian Delusion, which depicts the modern struggle between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs (and the Arab world).  This incredibly well researched and readable volume reveals the lack of historical...

  • February 10, 2020

    Pelosi’s Lack of Decorum Is A Revelation

    Professor Jonathan Turley of Georgetown University Law School wrote in The Hill of the Speaker’s State of the Union behavior, “Pelosi has shredded decades of tradition, decorum and civility that the nation could use now more than ever....

  • January 25, 2020

    American Education Can Be Saved, but Not by the Left

    Two threads of educational reform can be discerned during the past 25 years. Both miss the need for real reform and have contributed thereby to the further dumbing down of our public schools. One involves greater federal involvement and funding throu...

  • January 17, 2020

    A Century of Democrat Socialism

    Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was a response to a crisis in America’s economy.  Stock prices were crashing, businesses were failing, and unemployment was soaring.  FDR’s popularity was engendered by his ability to...

  • January 11, 2020

    Democrats Have Become a Disfigured Reflection of the Party They Once Were

    In an amazingly prophetic story by Isaac Bashevis Singer entitled "The Gentleman from Cracow," about life in the village of Frampol, where "the food was scarce and the water foul," one day, a young man, a doctor, arrives...

  • January 6, 2020

    Thanks to Trump, the Forty-Year Appeasement of Iran Is Over

    The assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is an unusual, possibly aberrant, event.  The killing of this individual leader of a sovereign state may lead to all-out war between Iran and the U.S. — or, on the other hand, the ...

  • December 18, 2019

    Boris Johnson's Great Victory

    Boris Johnson’s landslide victory endorses the sovereignty of nation-states and resists the multilateral ideals of regional governance or even one-world government.  Is it not repugnant to every liberty loving individual to think...

  • November 30, 2019

    Bloomberg: The Billionaire Nothingburger

    Michael Bloomberg, who served as mayor of New York City, has announced that he is a candidate for the Leftocratic Party's nomination to run for president in 2020.  In his announcement, he said President Donald Trump is an "existent...

  • November 6, 2019

    Nihilism Is Driving Leftocratic Rage

    The present impeachment onslaught being engineered maliciously by the Leftocrats is a manifestation of a flawed anti-truth mindset that is rightly called nihilistic. The “impeachment inquiry” now authorized against our President is an ...

  • October 19, 2019

    Is America for or against Underdogs?

    When I was growing up in the fifties and sixties, it was believed that America was supportive of the underdog.  That was before increasing numbers of people came to believe that America produced underdogs.  In fact, in the minds o...

  • October 15, 2019

    Social and Political Disintegration Is Accelerating

    The leftward propulsion of American socio-political-economic life during the New Deal and in the 1960s has, this writer would propose, converged with collapsing family values during the past sixty years.  Contempt for the family is par...

  • September 29, 2019

    Violence against the Citizenry Is the Left's Intent

    The extreme controls and revisions envisioned by the Squad and many of the candidates for the Leftocratic presidential nomination for 2020 are actually leading not merely to vast governmental expansion, nor to a more secure future as they claim, but ...

  • September 10, 2019

    Education Is Driven By False Premises and Practices

    Bruce Deitrick Price in a recent article at quora.com perceptively noted that “teachers understand a lot less about what’s going on in their own classrooms than you might imagine.” He adds that the Education Establishment has ...

  • September 4, 2019

    Our Real Identity Politics Is Governed By Almighty God

    The Left in American life today, with its emphasis on socialist and communist values, is essentially denying the validity of Judeo-Christian values which have been defended successfully for centuries by blood, sweat, and tears.  The Left emphasi...

  • August 22, 2019

    Decades of Intensifying Left-Wing Influence on High School Students

    As a senior in high school, I dated a gorgeous girl.  On our first date, she was sitting on my lap.  I thought, "My life is now perfect!"  Then she started spouting some Marxist gibberish.  I began di...

  • August 8, 2019

    Bill de Blasio more than held his own in an hour-long interview with Sean Hannity

    Incredibly, out of the twenty Leftocrat combatants for their party's presidential nomination, only one, Mayor Bill de Blasio, had the intestinal fortitude to be interviewed by Sean Hannity on Fox News.  This writer, who is a news junkie...

  • July 27, 2019

    The Idiocy of the Latest Educational Framework

    America's education system is driven decade after decade by a never-ending stream of jargon.  Left-wing educators seemingly never get tired of reproducing their pap in schools of education and not-for-profit organizations.  Th...

  • July 21, 2019

    Immorality Embraced by So-Called Christian Love

    Immorality is being embraced by so-called Christian love.  Bible-based Judeo-Christian morality is increasingly considered a non-starter.  Traditional Christian doctrine is increasingly looked upon as inconsistent with nature and “hum...

  • June 28, 2019

    The Democrat debate farce

    The first two Democrat debates were the height of farce.  They featured hilarious, inconsequential, and pure bilge being passed off as serious political worldviews. What characterizes a farce?  A farce is a literary piece ...

  • June 21, 2019

    The Democrats’ Presidential Field and Communism

    Everything that America stands for is being opposed by the resurgence of communism with its profound hatred of private property as the root of alienation and exploitation in society.  Inequality and the injustice that is believed to flow out of ...

  • June 8, 2019

    Democrats Threaten Our Happiness and Liberty

    As we anticipate the Presidential election of 2020, we need to keep in mind that the Democratic Party is overwhelmingly aligned with left-wing positions. The prominence of Bernie Sanders after decades as a maverick “Democratic Socialist” ...

  • June 4, 2019

    Encroaching Totalitarianism in The West

    We in the West are no longer threatened by monarchism but by the totalitarian impulse of ever-expanding bureaucratic institutions and mindsets.  These mindsets find their home in the vast secular bureaucracies of Brussels, Geneva, the UN, and, i...

  • May 18, 2019

    The Poor Motives Behind the Iran Deal

    Writing for the Center For Security Policy earlier this month, Fred Fleitz pointedly detailed five “myths” regarding the P5+1 JCPOA (“Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”) deal the U.S. made with Iran in 2015.  His an...

  • May 13, 2019

    The Queen of Hearts Syndrome and Our 'Constitutional Crisis'

    Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) referred to the president's issuing of a claim of executive privilege to abrogate the House of Representatives' subpoena of the full, unredacted Mueller Report as a "constitutional crisis."  Nadler ...

  • April 30, 2019

    US Sovereignty and the UN's Pathetic Agenda 2030

    The UN has morphed from being an organization for greater world cooperation to a body strategizing for world governance. And shockingly, too many Americans are unwittingly embracing those strategies. There is a fifth column in our country that is com...

  • April 23, 2019

    Our Imploding Educational System

    Education in the U.S. is imploding.  The Horatio Alger ideals of education depicting the conditions for successful fulfillment of one's ambitions have been superseded by the ideas and ideals of John Dewey.  His ideals enunciat...

  • April 17, 2019

    Our Expensive, Manipulated Public High Schools

    The idea of spending one's way out of educational problems did not begin with New York's recently appointed chancellor, Richard Carranza.  It can be traced to Jonathan Kozol, whose first bestseller on education came out in the 1960s...

  • April 11, 2019

    Anarchy is Swallowing Up the Social Order

    To use a term from Greek philosophy, the telos (purpose) of government has been misplaced.  Instead of designing laws and methods to enhance the dignity and freedom of the individuals living in our society, the government has been designing laws...

  • April 5, 2019

    Leftism Threatens American Family Life

    From many on the left we hear the words "collective" "intersectionality," or “hegemony” as central vocabulary in socio-political-economic discourse.  Words like “liberty,” “individuality,” ...

  • March 31, 2019

    Communism in Our Schools and in Our Politics

    Even in high school, I found myself offended by my fellow students who were card-carrying communists in their beliefs and sympathies.  In fact, a sizeable number of students clung to Marxism as dogma.  The high school was Central ...

  • March 26, 2019

    The Left's Bitter Fantasy about Capitalism

    A left-wing acquaintance emailed me the following comment: "The fact that the rich are drinking champagne while the poor struggle to feed their children strikes me as simply wrong.  This is presumably the position of the Church as well...

  • March 17, 2019

    We Cannot Bury Our Heads in the Sand about Ilhan Omar

    Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota poses an interesting case study in American cultural or civilizational consciousness.  She is the first congressional representative to wear a scarf around her head, and that scarf is for some a symbol of the ...

  • March 10, 2019

    Did Pope Francis Really Reconcile Christianity with Islam?

    On February 4, 2019, Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar, signed a "Document on Human Fraternity For World Peace and Living Together ('Doc')."  The Doc is deemed a historic détente be...

  • February 25, 2019

    Stinking Bit Players in a Corrupt Narrative

    Are we proud citizens of a republic or are we “poor players” -- stinking bit players -- as William Shakespeare’s Macbeth claimed, in a “tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing?”  Following mo...

  • February 18, 2019

    Trump's National Emergency Draws Fire because He Rejects Globalism

    Dan Balz, chief correspondent for the Washington Post, has written a powerful screed against President Donald Trump wherein he repudiates Trump's declaration of a national emergency.  He expresses in word and tone his hatred a...

  • February 8, 2019

    President Trump's SOTU Affirmed Liberty to Unresponsive Subversives

    An hour before Pres. Donald Trump's State of the Union Address, I opened my mail.  It included a thank-you note regarding a contribution I had made to a right-wing organization.  The author of the note quoted Nikita Khrushchev...

  • January 24, 2019

    The Democratic Party Is Alienated from and Hates the USA

    At the high school where I formerly taught for 15 years in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Pledge of Allegiance was not recited when I arrived there in 1997.  I was told that it had not been recited since 1966 because of the anti-Vietnam War ...

  • January 12, 2019

    Love for Western Civilization Leads to Strong Border Security

    Pres. Donald Trump, speaking in Poland June 6, 2017, affirmed his belief in defending Western civilization.  In that speech, he summed up his views by stressing the love of freedom.  He said, "And above all, we value the...

  • December 30, 2018

    Rage-Filled Progressives Embrace Cultural Marxism

    In the early 20th century, calling oneself progressive was a self-designation used by both Republicans (Theodore Roosevelt) and Democrats (Woodrow Wilson).  It acknowledged or promoted certain reforms in the body politic, yet by calling one...

  • December 22, 2018

    Are Trump-Supporters Part of a Cult?

    Earlier this year, an editorial in the N.Y. Times was entitled simply "The Trump Cult."  The word "cult" has a negative connotation and suggests irrationality and obsession superseding other legitimate possible views bas...

  • December 15, 2018

    Does Freedom of Religion Mean Satanic Displays in State Capitols?

    In the Illinois Capitol Rotunda this month, several traditions are being celebrated.  We find a nativity scene for Christmas; a menorah for Hanukkah; and, alongside these displays, an arm holding an apple, with a snake coiled around it....

  • December 2, 2018

    Chad and Israel Resume Diplomatic Relations

    Chad, a small, impoverished, landlocked nation just south of Libya and west of Sudan, at the advice of Libya, broke off relations with Israel 47 years ago.  However, that is about to change, as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin (“Bibi...

  • November 21, 2018

    The 'Soft' but Real UN World Government Plan

    After World War II ended, a group of individuals met under the auspices of the United World Federalists (UWF) in Montreux, Switzerland to draft a comprehensive plan for a world government.  They stated unequivocally that they considere...

  • November 11, 2018

    World Government Advocates Want to M.U.C.K. Up Our World

    One-world government is an agenda to supersede the nation-state concept perceived by its backers as fundamentally selfish and as having misguided assumptions about life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.  The United Nations m...

  • November 7, 2018

    Financial Hype, Flawed Policies, and Corruption Abound in NYC Schools

    Richard Carranza, the latest chancellor of the New York City Department of Education (DOE), has announced his desire to see an increase of $17 billion for the schools over a four-year period, F.Y. 2020-2024.  That's right: "billion...

  • October 27, 2018

    The UN Wants to be Our World Government By 2030

    In the 1960s, an informed but naïve undergraduate, I was walking across the campus of the University of Pennsylvania with the Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Prof. Charles C. Price.  He told me that he was president of the United Worl...

  • October 15, 2018

    Kissing Our Flag: A Symbol of Freedom and Hope

    Pastor Andrew Brunson kissed the American flag when it was presented to him in Germany. I understand his emotions very well. In 1976, I went to Teheran, Iran to teach history in private school while the Shah Reza Pahlavi was still in power. It was a ...

  • October 13, 2018

    Trump as Nazi: Liberals' Dumbest Narrative Yet

    Since the left in its propaganda campaigns has tried to compare President George W. Bush and now President Trump with Hitler and the Nazis (of the National Socialist Workers Party) here, here, here, here, and here, let us briefly survey the Nazi regi...

  • September 29, 2018

    Defense of Sovereignty Must Be Our National Goal

    At the U.N. this week, President Donald Trump mounted one of the most coherent and timely defenses of U.S. sovereignty ever given.  Trump's previous inspiring and unexpected remarks about sovereignty were made in the Rose Garden, when h...

  • September 12, 2018

    Student Activism Destabilizes Society

    The latest issue of the Harvard Graduate School of Education magazine focuses on “student activism.”  This activism rubric is a euphemism for student disturbance, student malaise, student ingratitude, student impulsivity, distracted ...

  • September 2, 2018

    We Must Fight for Family Values

    Our culture is increasingly pushing against the family as the bedrock institution of civilization.  Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believed that the family is a "bourgeois institution" premised on the inequalities of the capitalis...

  • August 23, 2018

    The Socialist Party Platform Is Pathetic and Ignorant

    The socialists in the U.S. have been attempting to reject capitalism and our constitutional system for over 100 years.  They have never controlled the House or the Senate and never won the presidency.  The most votes a Socialist P...

  • August 17, 2018

    Socialism May Be Implemented Even When Rejected

    The Gallup polling organization recently noted, "For the first time in Gallup's measurement over the past decade, Democrats have a more positive image of socialism than they do of capitalism."  This does not represent a dramat...

  • July 26, 2018

    Trump Putting 'Free' Back in Free Trade

    Pres. Donald J. Trump announced a breakthrough deal with the European Union regarding U.S. trade relations with the E.U. member-countries.  He stated, "We had a big day, very big," standing in the White House Rose Garden alongside...

  • July 14, 2018

    Why Trump Makes Sense Regarding NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was conceived as a mutual defense pact against possible Soviet aggression in Europe following WWII, and the U.S., under President Harry Truman’s initiative, became one of the original twelve members in 194...

  • July 2, 2018

    Gratitude Is the Key to Resisting America-Haters

    A friend of mine recently directed a question to me: "If liberals do not recognize biological gender, why do they protest for women's rights?"  From decades of association with the left, I know that members of America's Cu...

  • June 16, 2018

    Why It Is Good for Trump To Challenge the International Trade Establishment

    Since the election of Pres. Trump, commentators have been asking repeatedly why he seems so cordial or complimentary of leaders of countries many consider to be "enemy countries" – especially the People's Republics of China and Ru...

  • June 4, 2018

    Erotic Manias and Disappearing Fathers

    Judeo-Christian values and traditional norms promoting integration of love-sex-marriage, modesty, and self-restraint are disappearing with the happy support of school administrations, the psychological counseling establishment, the government, and th...

  • May 19, 2018

    Tough-Minded Realism Is Needed In the West's Fight Against Islam

    In a last attempt to gain at least partial control over Europe, the Ottomans joined in alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I – together the Central Powers -- in a life and death struggle with Allied forces.  As we know, ...

  • May 10, 2018

    NY Times Cranks Bias Up to Eleven on Iran Deal

    The N.Y. Times reported on Pres. Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the notorious P5+1 deal with Iran that was consummated in 2015.  The reporting by the Times is so scurrilous and biased as to deny all fundamentals of journalisti...

  • May 5, 2018

    Sixties Counter-Culture Anarchism Is Alive and Well

    Last month marked the 29th anniversary of the suicide of Abbie Hoffman, a counter-culture icon from the 1960s and 1970s.  He was founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and wrote a couple of popular books, Revolution for the...

  • April 22, 2018

    The False Teachings of the National Council of Churches

    The momentum of non-biblical Protestant Christianity picked up more than 100 years ago with the publication in 1907 of Walter Rauschenbusch's book Christianity and the Social Crisis.  In this work, Rauschenbusch, shortly after his retur...

  • April 5, 2018

    Boeing's Role in the Iran Nuclear Deal Must Be Investigated

    A good business deal should not be built upon a potential existential threat to the U.S., our beloved country.  With Boeing involved so soon after the 2015 P5+1 deal with Iran (more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal) was completed, it...

  • March 25, 2018

    Harvard Conference 'of Color' an Exercise in Hating Whitey

    Harvard University's Graduate School of Education held its Annual Alumni of Color Conference earlier this month in Cambridge, Mass.  These annual conferences are distinguished by their radical perspective, wherein the USA is depicted as...

  • March 21, 2018

    The USA Needs a 'Return to Normalcy' Now More than in 1920

    In a speech preceding his run for the presidency in May 1920, Warren G. Harding stated, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not...

  • March 14, 2018

    Sadiq Khan Squelches Freedom of Thought and Expression

    Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London,  will be speaking at a conference of technology executives in Austin, Texas.  The gist of his remarks has been announced.  It is a speech advocating a troika of control, condemnat...

  • March 3, 2018

    Anarchy Is Swallowing Up the Social Order

    Government in the name of order, control, efficiency, organization, the greatest good for the greatest number, solidarity, social justice, and safety is instead ruling over a society that is increasingly disordered, crime-ridden, unjust, and disturbe...

  • February 17, 2018

    Russian Investigation Offers a Ludicrous Indictment

    The malicious but ludicrous Russian collusion investigation is now winding down.  The Democrats and the Justice Department are trying to exit with face-saving grace despite colossal failure to prove their assertion against Trump and his tea...

  • January 29, 2018

    Using Nullification To Destroy Federalism

    Animosity reigns supreme among Democrats who now are anything but “the loyal opposition.” The intention to disrupt, undermine, insult, reject, and vilify anything and everything about President Donald Trump’s person, his programs, a...

  • January 7, 2018

    The Left's False Vision of Economics and Morality

    Commentaries by the left repeatedly emphasize the words "fairness," "morality," "equality," "community," and "the poor."  According to the left, morality and fairness are economic concepts, not b...

  • December 30, 2017

    The Profound Value of 'Merry Christmas'

    The words "Merry Christmas" are the tip of the iceberg of our longing to go back to a more normal America.  The words are not merely about elevating a Christian celebration or an earlier period of exclusive white dominance.  That ...

  • November 26, 2017

    Morality, Not Civility, Is the Basis of the Social Order

    I would like to propose a hypothesis: "If a society loses its belief in God and Judeo-Christian morality, it will go down the drain faster than you can flush a wad of toilet paper."  We shall test this hypothesis in a laboratory. We...

  • November 16, 2017

    Who Are the Real Fascists in American Politics?

    President Donald J. Trump is routinely referred to as a fascist by the left. Much of that rhetoric originates from within the Democrat Party. We hear little to no outrage by either Democrats or Republicans at the use of this inflammatory language. In...

  • October 26, 2017

    The New Terrorist-Industrial Complex

    The administration of Pres. Donald Trump is considering whether to disallow the sale of Boeing passenger planes to Iran.  This hideous addendum to the horrendous P5+1 deal with Iran, where the U.S. was the most important signatory, was another o...

  • October 21, 2017

    Roger Goodell and Our Faltering Patriotism

    NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked if NFL players were told to commit to standing during the national anthem, he answered: "We did not ask for that." However, he did not follow up by telling the press what the NFL did ask for. Civilit...

  • October 11, 2017

    Trump Seeks a Pre-1945 Nationalism

    Globalism threatens the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. President Donald Trump’s agenda is anti-globalist at the core. It is also nationalistic to the core, and senses in our history a national destiny. It is not manifes...

  • October 1, 2017

    Vietnam, the Flag, and Me

      There are still a lot of old leftists who are proud of the anti-Vietnam War position they held in the nineteen sixties and early seventies. One can only wonder how they might react to PBS’s recent airing of a series on the Vietnam War...

  • September 24, 2017

    The Sexual Revolution Corrupts Our Public Schools

    As we reflect on law and policy, it is often useful to see how changes play out in the practical, nitty-gritty of everyday life. For example, we can consider how progressives have, over time, separated love, sex, and marriage.  Divorce has skyro...

  • September 16, 2017

    How to Restore Our Constitutional Foundation

    By the end of World War II, the beautiful foundational ideas and ideals of our constitutional republic had already been significantly undermined by the Democratic Party. The two pillars of our constitutional republic, federalism and checks and balanc...

  • September 13, 2017

    Why the Democrats Oppose Economic Freedom

    The seeds of the modern bureaucratic or administrative state go back to the Progressive Era of American history in the early 20th century. But progressive regulation morphed into the hyper-control of our present federal government during the New Deal...

  • August 30, 2017

    The Wall Is the Centerpiece for Asserting American Sovereignty

    Five days after taking office, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13767, which authorized the building of a wall on our Southern border and other measures to increase the number of immigration officers to defend our borders against illegal...

  • August 26, 2017

    Trump Vows to Kill More Terrorists

    This writer along with millions of fellow citizens felt a great sense of relief when President Trump, on Monday, August 21, told us “[W]e will no longer use American military might to construct democracies in faraway lands or try to rebuild oth...

  • August 16, 2017

    The Goal of the Democratic Party: Overthrow of 'The System'

    The Democratic Party has morphed over time from being a party that was pro-labor; anti-greed; and, via the New Deal, a supporter of demand-side Keynesian economics to being the party that is against "The System" and anti-capitalist. ...

  • August 3, 2017

    The Elite and Their Idols

    The leftist media, along with the Democrat Party, never tires of analyzing the Presidential election results of 2016. How could the “impossible” have happened against all major media prognostications? How could the wildly unqualified, irr...

  • July 26, 2017

    The Loss of Meaning and Truth in American Life

    “The last man (German: der letzte Mensch) is a term used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.  The last men are tired of life, take no risks, and seek only comfort and security.” His “last man...

  • July 18, 2017

    Knowing the Difference between True Liberty and Fake Liberty

    Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south – let all Americans – let all lovers of liberty everywhere – join in the great and good work. If w...

  • July 16, 2017

    Europe Must Resist Third-World Migration

    Bill Gates has recently commended Germany for allocating 0.7% of GDP for payments to fight poverty in less developed developing countries (LDDCs).  With his infinite browser wisdom, he asserts that the developed world, especially Europe, must in...

  • July 1, 2017

    Rejecting Globalism and Affirming Patriotic Nationalism

    Our nation has gradually been subverted from within. Our national identity has been portrayed as hypocritical and unworthy of the claims of being a free society. The left wing insists that the U.S. has not lived up to its so-called ideals from the ve...

  • June 29, 2017

    Why the European Union Is Failing

    What will the future of the European Union be?  Bruce Thornton projects a solution to their future that lies in the EU showing greater respect for the diversity of cultures of its member states.  He states, “The challenge facing Eu...

  • June 27, 2017

    Restoring Nationalism

    The end of WWII was the beginning of a globalist trajectory hidden behind the mask of “multilateralism.” With the power of disturbing hindsight, we can see that the creation of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the ...

  • June 25, 2017

    Trump's Presidency Reaffirms Nationalism over the Globalist Ideal

    Decades ago, while walking across the campus of one of our elite institutions to receive an award, I was accompanied by Professor Charles Price, a brilliant chemist with degrees from Swarthmore and Harvard.  Professor Price informed me that he w...

  • June 16, 2017

    The shots heard 'round the USA

    At a baseball field where Republican congressmen were practicing for their annual charity baseball game against the congressional Democrats, James T.  Hodgkinson shot five people.  It was a cowardly, premeditated attack.  The attack to...

  • June 13, 2017

    New York City's Bogus Public Health Posters

    “ZIKA CAN BE SPREAD THROUGH VAGINAL, ANAL, OR ORAL SEX. USE A CONDOM TO PREVENT TRANSMISSION.” This message has been posted as a public service message in the New York City subways, authorized by the mayor’s office. The poster co...

  • June 4, 2017

    What Is The Real Meaning of Trump's Presidency?

    A powerful, thoughtful article by Holman Jenkins recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal suggesting that the Democrats "may be unpleasantly surprised" by Robert Mueller's investigation of Russia's election meddling.  The i...

  • June 2, 2017

    Trump Steps on the Paris Agreement, Stands for Sovereignty

    President Donald J. Trump has announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, "an agreement  within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation," signed or...

  • May 25, 2017

    Two-Faced Saudis Welcome Trump

    "Drive them out!  Drive them out!"  With these words, Pres. Donald J. Trump sounded the alarm against the evils of Islamic terrorism, which has led to the genocide, murder, torture, enslavement, and horrible injuries of people on ...

  • May 18, 2017

    America's Betrayal by the Democratic Party

    Are you aware that we are facing a political and cultural tragedy right now?  The Democratic Party, one of two great parties of the USA, has been co-opted by the communist ideologues, the power-mad neo-Marxists, in our political establishment. ...

  • April 28, 2017

    Turkey's NATO Membership Should Be Revoked

      Turkey's President Recep Tayyip ErdoДџan on April 16 won a referendum by a narrow margin of 51.4%, extending the powers of his office and curtailing the powers of the parliament and judiciary in Turkey.  This vote took place at a t...

  • April 17, 2017

    Repudiating the Obama Vision for Higher Education

    Statistics, systems, and social engineering threaten our liberty in the USA and throughout the world.  There has been an ongoing attempt for decades to shift the focus in our society away from faith, family, and freedom, to an agenda where indiv...

  • April 12, 2017

    The Pursuit of Equality Is Deconstructing and Killing Us

    President Barack Obama, in 2015, made a widely reported statement that "The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow, and that's still part of our DNA that's...

  • March 26, 2017

    Fake News Is Based on Fake Righteousness

    Exodus tells us: For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said. (Exodus 7:12-13) This ...

  • March 17, 2017

    Love, Sex, and Marriage Go Together and Must Be Taught in Our Schools

    Are moral issues still relevant for education? Our teenagers (and younger) are being pounded with a life ethic totally at odds with Judeo-Christian morality. The Ten Commandments are being eroded. In fact, they cannot even be displayed in sch...

  • March 14, 2017

    The Affordable Care Act must go!

    The Republicans in the House already repealed Obamacare numerous times.  Why are they sweating it out this time?  Answer: Because they knew before that their "repeal" would not pass the Senate, or, if it did, it would be vetoed by...

  • March 2, 2017

    Trump's speech soared on a theme of fatherly love

    It had not been my intention to watch President Trump's speech to a Joint Session of Congress on March 1.  His policies seem to be both viable and needed, so it seemed unnecessary for me to hear them listed one more time.  But at the la...

  • February 17, 2017

    New New Left Ideology Controls the Democratic Party

    The left as represented by today’s Democratic Party has failed to be truthful, just, loving, kind, and respectful of our Constitution and Judeo-Christian morality. The Democratic Party has moved by stages from the Old Left, to the New Left, to ...

  • February 16, 2017

    Democrats fear Trump's success with Russia

      In one of his latest tweets, President Donald Trump stated, "The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by 'intelligence' like candy. Very un-American!"  He is rightly concer...

  • February 9, 2017

    Why the US needs Betsy DeVos

    Betsy DeVos's nomination to become secretary of education was a squeaker.  It made history by being the first confirmation to be put through because of a tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate by the vice president. The closeness of the vot...

  • January 22, 2017

    Is Trump More Like Roosevelt or Jackson?

    Inauguration Day 2017 has placed the U.S. on a new political and economic trajectory.  President Donald Trump won the votes of the so-called Rust Belt, where workers and their children and grandchildren, who have been dispossessed and displaced ...

  • January 22, 2017

    Rachel Maddow stupidly compares Trump to Nazis

    Rachel Maddow, speaking about Trump's inaugural speech, said, "There was an America First Committee that formed in this country.  Hundreds of thousands of people in this country, some of the richest businessmen in the country, were...

  • January 13, 2017

    Trump’s Model First Press Conference

    Donald Trump is taking office amidst a barrage of disparagement and hostility. So-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” actually underestimates the nature of this hostility by putting a somewhat tongue-in-cheek psychiatric label on the rage...

  • December 29, 2016

    Privatizing Education: An Important Step in School Reform

    Diane Ravitch, a guru of educational practice and philosophy, recently summarized many of the negatives of privatizing some or all of our public schools.  She attributes Trumpian enthusiasm for this to (1) the influence of the rich in the top 1%...

  • December 28, 2016

    Pivots Instead of Policies in International Affairs

    Recently, we see the “pivot” as a mechanism of foreign policy that is growing in significance. The pivot has become the swift adjustment of foreign policy priorities and alignments by individual countries within the context of the dominan...

  • December 9, 2016

    Public Schools: Not Education, but Social Engineering

    Whenever we recall Book VII of Plato's Republic, the "Allegory of the Cave" that many of us studied in college, we remember that the chained population in the cave was always looking at shadows on the wall of the cave and mistakenly bel...

  • December 2, 2016

    Nietzsche and the New Ten Commandments

    Friedrich Nietzsche, through his created philosophical persona Zarathustra, declared, "God is dead."  Zarathustra said this to a Christian sage as he descended a mountain. The idea of descending to humankind with a great revelation ...

  • November 15, 2016

    Democratic Propaganda Disguised as Election Analysis

    Julie Bosman and Monica Davey in a N.Y. Times article, "Republicans Expand Control in a Deeply Divided Nation," use understatement and a rhetoric of "thoughtful analysis" to make their case that Republican victories are negative e...

  • November 14, 2016

    When Polls Become Idols

    Donald J. Trump's victory was described as an upset in many news outlets on November 9, 2016.  It was an "upset" only because of the almost uniformly failed prognostications about the results from "scientific pollsters," ...

  • November 12, 2016

    Trump Updates FDR’s 'Forgotten Man' Theme

    During the early morning hours of November 9, 2016, Donald Trump greeted his supporters and well-wishers at the Hilton Hotel in New York City after it was announced that he had won the presidency. During his remarks he referred to the forgotten man w...

  • October 14, 2016

    Queen of Sleaze

    Hillary and Bill are the queen and king of sleaze.  Rape, self-exposure, imposed fondling, multiple counts of adultery, and oral sex are all in the Bill Clinton arsenal of prurient and illegal sexual behaviors.  He is a proven perjurer, hav...

  • October 10, 2016

    The ‘P***y’ and ‘F**k’ Candidate Turned the Tide in Debate Two

    The second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump following soon after nationwide news coverage of Trump’s 2005  “p***y” and “f**k” tape was a do or die debate for him.  I expected to see Hillary deliv...

  • October 6, 2016

    The U.S. Fiddles while Syria Burns

    On October 4, the N.Y. Times reported a complete breakdown of talks between John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, and Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, over the bombing of Aleppo by Assad and the Russians.  This is a developing far...

  • September 28, 2016

    Our Government Is Helping the Bad Guys

    In a recent article, Jonathan Tobin tells the reader that the present excess use of Russian force in Syria was because of "the conceit of the administration's policy … that a rapprochement with Iran would end the nuclear threat and he...

  • July 30, 2016

    Hillary Is a Menshevik

    The Bolshevik/Menshevik crisis we saw in the first stages of the Russian Revolution is bubbling to the surface in our country through the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party today reflects an updated version of the Bolshevik/Menshevik split of ...

  • June 10, 2016

    Hillary: The Crème des Femmes

    The California Democratic primary resulted in a resounding victory for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders -- the vote was 56% for Hillary and 43% for Bernie. Hillary’s comment was, “Thanks to you [primary voters of California], we...

  • June 3, 2016

    Anti-Capitalism, Bernie Sanders, and the Democratic Party

    While interviewing Bernie Sanders on "Meet The Press" on October 11, 2015 Chuck Todd asked the following question: “Are you a capitalist?” Bernie answered “No. I’m a democratic socialist.” To properly...

  • March 30, 2016

    Yes, Mr. President: Capitalism Is Better

    During his recent trip to Argentina, President Barack Obama told a group of young people, "I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works.  You don't have to worry about whether it neatly fits into ...

  • February 23, 2016

    Conservative Justice Scalia: Not Sufficiently Conservative?

    The view that the origins of our law lies in natural law is a view of jurisprudence that sadly has been supplanted in most of our major law schools. It came under attack by Professors Ronald Dworkin, Lon Fuller, H.L.A. Hart and others, like John M. F...

  • January 28, 2016

    O'Reilly Trumped by The Donald

    Donald Trump kept an appointment to be interviewed on the O’Reilly Factor show Wednesday night, January 27.  Bill O’Reilly, despite promises to the contrary to Trump, spent much of the interview "advising" him to go to...

  • January 26, 2016

    Keynesian Economics Is Destroying U.S. Growth

    The New York Times has published a long front-page article on the lower per barrel price of oil that has occurred during the last few months. Times writer Mr. Binyamin Appelbaum is nonplussed by the fact that he is not seeing an inverse upt...

  • January 19, 2016

    Bernie Sanders: Unfit to Be President

    During the last Democratic presidential debate, Bernie Sanders described himself as “revolutionary.” He railed against Wall Street, and how he was going to raise taxes on the billionaires who are, he states with righteous [sic] indig...

  • January 5, 2016

    Obama cultivates image of a moderate Iran based upon hors d'oeuvres and attire

    What will BHO do if there is an outbreak of war between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia in the Middle East?  Answer: He will back Iran.  Why?  Answer: Because he considers Iran more moderate. Where does this perception come from...

  • December 17, 2015

    No Thanksgiving, Christmas Just the Latest in Political Correctness U

    Principal Eujin Jaela Kim, at P.S. 169 in Brooklyn, NY, has taken the step of banning references to Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Pledge of Allegiance from her school.  What do these holidays and the Pledge have in common?  For the lefti...

  • November 25, 2015

    Harvard Plans Divisive Anti-America Conference

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education 14th Annual Alumni of Color Conference will be held from Thursday, March 3 to Saturday, March 5, 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference will be organized around three anti-American themes: Designing ...

  • November 3, 2015

    The PRC's New Twist in Coercion

    In 1979, Deng Xiaopeng, instituted the one-child policy in the Peoples’ Republic of China. Deng is sometimes lauded by “liberals” who are soft on communism for eliminating collective farms and for opening empowerment zones in China ...

  • October 14, 2015

    The Democratic candidates showed themselves to be lackluster and out of date

    It was clear from the first five minutes of the Democratic presidential candidates' debate on CNN (Oct. 13, 2015) that the debaters were sadly out of date.  It seemed we went through a time-space warp.  Social, economic, and foreign pol...

  • September 1, 2015

    War of the Harvard Professors

    Cass Sunstein, a University Professor at Harvard Law School (and fromer Obama staffer), last week published an article vigorously disagreeing with other leftists. He took issue with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (formerly a Harvard Law prof) and another Harv...

  • August 15, 2015

    Bernie Sanders: Pathetic and Outdated

    Bernie Sanders, practicing the gutless leadership that he preaches, gave up his podium in Seattle to Black Lives Matter “activists.” He was spouting his neo-Marxist rhetoric about the class struggle (oops, “income inequality...

  • July 27, 2015

    The Iran Deal: Ahistorical, Anti-American, Immoral

    Speaking last week about the newly concluded agreement/treaty of P5+1, Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Kans.) noted, "This agreement is the worst of backroom deals.  In addition to allowing Iran to keep its nuclear program, missile program, Amer...

  • April 21, 2015

    Lack of Integrity and the Revolving Door

    Last week, the NY Times ran a lead story in its “Business Day” section reporting that Ben S. Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve chairman, had signed on to advise the Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund founded by Ken C. Griffin....

  • April 12, 2015

    Who is Protected From Protected Classes?

    An old chum who is at the top of the legal profession recently wrote the following sentence to me in the all-knowing spirit characteristic of liberal pundits coast-to-coast: “Under American Constitutional law, no government may accommodate religious ...

  • March 4, 2015

    Where Did All The 'Islamic Terrorists' Go?

    ISIS is often portrayed by the mainstream media (MSM) as the demonic face of “extremism.”  To our president, this organization is not Islamic.  For Obama, ISIS is composed of pathological individuals who are masquerading as Isla...

  • November 10, 2014

    Pathological Iran

    In a recent Wall Street Journal article, it was stated that “[t]he Obama administration and Iran, engaged in direct nuclear negotiations and facing a common threat from Islamic State militants, have moved into an effective state of déten...

  • October 10, 2014

    The Middle East Nightmare Intensifies

    In a recent article in Commentary, Jonathan Tobin states, “As the Times notes, even though both Iran and Hezbollah agree that there will be no coordination with the United States – a position that the administration is adamant about ...

  • September 23, 2014

    We Are Losing WWIII

    In a prescient article, Daniel Greenfield states that “on September 11, thousands were murdered in one day. The Democrats don’t like calling what happened on that day an act of war. Americans however know it’s a war and are determin...

  • September 23, 2014

    Heterosexual Marriage Is Logical as Well as Right

    Typical proponents of same-sex marriage think that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry without interference from others because they love each other.  In addition, they believe we have two classes of people: (1) persons who prefer member...

  • September 18, 2014

    Educational 'Reforms' Are Crushing Our People

    We see social engineering now at the center of all educational reform.  Whether at the local level or, as is now more and more the case, at the federal level (Race to the Top moneys to support Common Core), the meta-purpose is a new social engin...

  • September 15, 2014

    A Disgusting Practice: Female Genital Mutilation

    The Republicans are supposedly waging a "war on women” because they support the right of Christian organizations not to include contraceptives or abortifacients in their employee health insurance.  Democrats are now in high dudgeon, a...

  • July 18, 2014

    The U.S. Constitution: Beautifully Conceived

    Teaching in high schools in New York City for twenty-one years, it was disturbing to see that U.S. history textbooks often distance themselves from open praise and delight at the system of government our country enjoys.  No sense of resounding g...

  • June 27, 2014

    Bring Our Advisors Home!

    In the latest stirrings of the bored and weary giant known as “our country,” we are sending approximately 300 advisers to give “strategy” lessons to an Iraqi military that was being instructed by the U.S. and reinforced by the...

  • May 28, 2014

    Are Muslims Misunderstood Good Neighbors?

    In a recent article, “Islam: ‘Appalling and Abhorrent’ in the Eyes of a Blind World,” Raymond Ibrahim asserts that Islamic countries have a long history of despicable Koran-sanctioned behavior towards Christians and women...

  • April 1, 2014

    The Israeli One State Solution

    Caroline Glick’s latest book, One State Solution, carefully explains the political, legal, demographic, and military position of Israel in the modern world.  She corrects many faulty notions that are prevalent about Israel.  The reader learns from he...

  • March 20, 2014

    Setting up Israel

    In a recent article, Jonathan Tobin stated, “If the president were genuinely interested in pursuing peace he would be hammering the Palestinians for their behavior and making it clear they would pay a high price for saying no to Kerry’s f...

  • December 2, 2013

    Why Is There So Little Outrage Over The Iran Deal?

    While there are many skeptics concerning the recent deal with Iran in Geneva, a tone of outrage from political and religious leaders is missing or muted. Outside of Israel, American political leaders may disagree, but the language is typically r...

  • November 17, 2013

    How Generous Can Justice Afford To Be?

    How is justice achieved? What path should Christians follow in a world of seemingly endless needs? How do we best serve God in relation to the poor? Generous Justice by Tim Keller tries to provide a theological and philosophical framework which will ...

  • September 25, 2013

    The NCC and Egyptian Church Burnings

    The National Council of Churches (NCC), known for its superior-sounding rhetoric masquerading as balance and universalism, has issued a statement about the recent violence in Egypt, and particularly the concerted attacks on 64 Coptic churches in that...

  • August 15, 2013

    Testing Chaos Grips Public Schools

    New York State has recently acknowledged statistics that show that 75% of New York State students graduate high school, but only 35% of that number is "college-ready."  Similar statistics are noted in many states.  What is this alarming dis...

  • May 4, 2013

    The Great Education Power-Grab

    Did you know that reformers intent on implementing the Core Curriculum (National Standards) have invaded public education?  They do not care about kids or about individuals.  Armed with statistics and vast software systems, their intent is ...

  • November 3, 2012

    Has the 1% Caused Our Economic Woes?

    The Occupy Wall Street crowd emphasizes the growing disparity of wealth between the poor and the rich.  They typically make the incorrect assumption that it is this disparity that is the cause of the poor getting poorer.  This assumption is...

  • March 25, 2012

    Leftist Textbooks and World War I

    As a high school history teacher in the New York City schools for twenty years, I find myself frequently wondering how the city's textbooks have gotten so full of errors and liberal hogwash. The latest textbook we are required to use (no exceptions) ...

  • July 4, 2010

    Does the Declaration of Independence Tell the Truth?

    At this time of the year, while most U.S. citizens are contemplating U.S. independence and the Declaration of Independence, I ask myself why, in nineteen years of teaching in the New York public schools, I have not once heard the students gathered to...