November 27, 2020

The center will hold

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. So wrote William Butler Yeats in 1919, in reaction to World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic — a far worse...

November 15, 2020

What Trump (and we) should do

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”  So wrote Edmund Burke in 1770.  It is true today.  The evidence is overwhelming that Donald Trump won the honest election.  Crooked Joe ...

June 29, 2019

How the Eclipse Expedition to Confirm Einstein’s Theory Instead Birthed Multiculturalism

Between May 29 and July 1919, an expedition organized by Cambridge astronomer Arthur Eddington and the Astronomer Royal Frank Dyson photographed first an eclipse of the Sun (May 29) and then, a month later, the stars where the Sun had been during the...

May 25, 2019

Herman Wouk and The Language God Talks

The American novelist Herman Wouk died May 17 2019 at the age of 103.  He was most famous for The Caine Mutiny (made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart) and the series The Winds of War, War and Remembrance (made into a television movie series...

November 13, 2017

In Defense of Judge Roy Moore

If one reads the original Washington Post article on Judge Moore’s supposed harassment of underage “girls” with an open mind, one will conclude that Judge Moore is completely innocent, and that he is the victim of Fake News. Firs...

April 8, 2011

What Would Jesus Do (with the Qur'an)?

Many have criticized  Rev Terry Jones' burning of the Qur'an as unchristian.  Let me offer a defense of Jones on Christian theological grounds.  It is important to do so, because ultimately the entire notion of individual freedom arise...