October 22, 2020

A very strange society...

Growing up in South Africa from 1946 to 1987 meant living with racism as actual government policy.  Races were strictly segregated and compartmentalized; the better jobs were reserved for whites, while blacks were educated and trained prima...

October 11, 2020

Towards a new kind of declaration of independence

America’s founding documents are masterpieces of reason, and the application of truth from the minds of men well-schooled in classical philosophy and the Christian Scriptures. The fruit of their wisdom and their labors was the growth of a natio...

September 12, 2020

Christians and BLM

A comfortably predictable future in America, even 12 years ago, suddenly has question marks all over it.   Whatever the answers to those questions, one thing is certain: if you're a Christian, this is not the time to be uncertain abo...

August 22, 2020

Children playing with dynamite

The Antifa and BLM rioters doing their best to destroy leftist cities ruled by confused idealists are the outward manifestation of a more dangerous impulse threatening to destroy all of America. It is an impulse to self-deification that motivates ...

August 16, 2020

Socialism: The tyranny of the least and the dumbest

The man who famously said, “God is Dead” and was instantly acclaimed by those who wished God to be dead also described Socialism as the tyranny of the least and the dumbest. That’s a problem for Socialists because they’re ...

August 11, 2019

Health care as abuse

I haven’t experienced medical care in Canada, but I did have a comically frustrating encounter in England that taught me all I need to know about their National Health Service -- a system that is both despised and fiercely defended by the quirk...

February 27, 2015

Please Read the Koran

Greater clarity in the ongoing debate about Islam (radical or otherwise) would surely result from greater familiarity with the source document.  There’s a lot of commentary and speculation about the Koran and about those who are informe...