April 3, 2024

Is America First Just a Cult?

Someone has put forth the idea that support for Donald Trump and the America First program is just a cult.  Since we remember the 909 who died under the direction of Jim  Jones, the idea of a cult leaves us unsettled.  One...

February 22, 2024

Climate change: A summary

If you paid any attention to what came from COP28, held in Dubai, you have to conclude that world leaders and intellectuals believe we are facing a major crisis, and the world is doomed unless we spend billions, even trillions on climate preventive m...

December 20, 2023

Are Electric Vehicles the Wave of the Future?

In recent months it has become abundantly clear that electric vehicles are no more than rich men’s toys. Sometimes I think I must be having a dream, but I do not seem to be able to awaken from this nightmare. These vehicles are so expen...

November 3, 2023

Carbon Dioxide: Vital Plant Food

Carbon dioxide has been called a poison, yet it is actually the sustainer of all life on Earth.  Plants grow from the carbon in carbon dioxide in the air, and animals grow from the carbon in the plants they eat.  So carbon dioxide...

October 13, 2023

Protect Your Kids

Several years ago, my father, my brother, and I were camped along a small stream in the middle of Utah, near to the town of Moab.  Not far from us, another family was camped.  The family was a mother, a father, and a pre-teen boy....

September 20, 2023

Protecting Children

For years I have followed the writings of others, and especially articles about the attacks on our children. I have seen very little about how children are groomed, and then molested. This can cause harm that will affect them for a lifetime. When ...

August 18, 2023

The Real Democrats

Not long ago Democrats were generally patriotic Americans who just wanted different things than we wanted, but who would generally do the right thing.  I am not sure this is still true. I worked nine years in a mine in a small town in Idaho, ...

July 14, 2023

Will Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare?

When Joe Biden became president, America was on a solid footing, inflation was under control, we were energy independent, the price of gasoline was under $2.00, and things in America were great.  Now most of that has been undone, and nothing...

June 25, 2023

Leftism and the Enemies within the Church

There is a new documentary out, Enemies within the Church, which documents the decline of evangelical Christianity and the rise of liberalism within the church.  Every Christian who is concerned about liberty needs to watch this film and sh...

June 14, 2023

Education: A Once-Noble Profession

Education was once a very noble profession, in fact the best.  So where did we get off base?  We got off base when the National Education Association ceased to be a professional association which sought to improve education, to one ...

March 26, 2023

Socialism in Our Schools

Someone has made the claim that socialism is being taught in our junior college in our town.  Some official discounted that possibility and challenged him to "prove it." Now, that would be difficult to do.  Socialism ...

March 10, 2023

What is conservatism?

Common terms, like conservative and liberal, with traditional meanings may not mean the same things today.  Still, there are definitions of conservative even the liberals have to accept, because those definitions are unchanging. Just as ...

February 9, 2023

Educating For Today

Someone defined education as “that which is done to prepare a child for life.”  If that is truly the definition, then our schools are doing a terrible job. Many kids graduate from school believing somehow that the world owes ...

December 21, 2022

A Fool's Game on Climate

America has survived as a beacon of light for over two hundred years for two very simple reasons.  First, we developed a Constitution that protects our God-given rights, especially those listed in the Bill of Rights, and second, we discovered an...

December 18, 2022

Losing Our Culture

America was founded by religious Christians who believed the Bible and followed it in their daily lives.  We have gradually reached the point where Christianity has no place in public discourse. American culture is gradually being destro...

November 12, 2022

Did Righteousness Fail in 2022?

Elections have consequences and the election just past is no exception.  There have been a few dramatic wins, but also some heartbreaking losses. America is in serious trouble today, and I believe that was made clear by the recent election....

September 14, 2022

Midterms 2022: Never give up!

I believe that the General Election to be held this year on November 8 may well be the most important election in our over 200-year history.  This election may keep us a Constitutional Republic, or turn us into another socialist nation, a n...

July 16, 2022

Public education continues to fail us

Over the last century, American education has continued to decline, both in academic achievement and moral quality.  Probably one of the first to point out this obvious decline was Rudolph Flesch, who, in 1955, wrote Why Johnny Can't...

April 24, 2022

A Medical Dictator

I believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a medical dictator, and I have reached this conclusion through personal experience. Under his ‘guidance’ at the NIH, every level of government, as well as the private sector, has been affected by his me...

February 1, 2022

The doctors who actually do know best?

On Sunday, January 23, there was a march and rally in Washington, D.C.: "Defeat the Mandates: An America Homecoming."  On Monday, January 24, Senator Ron Johnson hosted a panel discussion where about a dozen of these same doctors ...

July 10, 2021

Does the Biden Administration Understand Inflation?

There seems to be a lot of confusion today about inflation.  Pick up the paper or follow an internet site and you will read that the inflation rate this year is expected to be 2% or 3%.  What they really mean is that prices are expected to ...

April 15, 2021

Overturning Roe v. Wade

When Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, praying Christians hoped that at last their many prayers had been answered; that at long last the taking of little lives in abortion would end with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.  ...

October 10, 2020

Ruminations from Idaho: Is hope lost?

Hope.  Americans are in danger of losing hope.  When I tried to find out when the cause of this despair, COVID, with all its isolation and lockdowns, would be over, here in Idaho, I was told that it would probably be next spr...

September 25, 2020

From a Small Town in Idaho, COVID's 'New Normal'

We have been in this lockdown for over 6 months.  By any rational standard, by now, we ought to be able to go back to normal.  When I talked to our governor’s office here in Idaho, I was informed that it was now up to our local health...