February 6, 2025

The Church, Illegals, and the Law

Like all laws, immigration law is very succinct and specific. It defines the conditions under which a person can successfully enter and stay in America. By being very exact, it ensures that all people are treated fairly, which minimizes injustice. ...

January 18, 2025

James Carville is, was, and always will be wrong

After months of soul-searching, Democratic Party strategist James Carville wrote a New York Times op-ed about how he was wrong in predicting the results of the 2024 presidential election. He honestly thought Kamala Harris would win the contest and...

November 21, 2024

Overcoming the tyranny of regulation

One way the liberal agenda progresses is through the tyranny of regulations. Congress often enacts laws that have disastrous and even unintended consequences on business, education, and society. These laws can generate regulations that liberal admini...

November 12, 2024

Why Does the Left Want to Scrap the Constitution?

For years, reforming the Constitution has been a misguided conservative issue. Downplaying the danger of a runaway convention, impatient conservatives have campaigned to ask the states to call a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) to consider reforms...

July 6, 2024

The Collapse of DEI

One deadly myth harmful to the conservative cause is that once the full weight of the establishment pushes a liberal initiative forward, it is futile to resist it. Such fatalism is false. Plenty of well-advanced leftist initiatives have suffered c...

June 22, 2024

The rise of the anti-woke shareholder

The liberal business establishment has long supported progressive causes, even to the detriment of their bottom lines. Conservative consumers and investors often feel helpless to curtail such support in the face of the massive financial power of...

April 18, 2024

White Christian Nationalism: Threat or mirage?

In the eyes of liberals, there is only one thing worse than Christian nationalism. It is White Christian nationalism. The addition of the adjective “White” supercharges the expression with vitriol and power, turning its followers (especia...

March 29, 2024

Fantasy Rules in Tribal Land Disputes

The news story reads like a classic land dispute between government and business interests against the claims of Indian tribes. Two massive projects are about to be started near a vast reservation in Arizona. The first is a power line that runs throu...

March 7, 2024

The CDC Ignores the Causes of Syphilis

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is again announcing a healthcare crisis that is surging in America. The facts are stark and threatening.  The crisis involves syphilis. For a long time, campaigns against promiscuity have been effect...

January 31, 2024

Time to Get Rid of the Chevron Ruling

The burden of overregulation weighs heavily upon American industry. It saddles the business world with burdens that stifle initiative and diminish profits. One Supreme Court decision that reinforces and codifies this government regulation is Chevr...

December 16, 2023

Can’t We Phase Out Climate Change Instead?

At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai this December, the climate change world was waiting with bated breath for a final document that would declare war on fossil fuels. The 70,000 delegates at the United Nations-sponsored event in the oil-rich nation ...

November 25, 2023

Poll finds it takes faith to believe in global warming

Many people wonder why Pope Francis focuses so much on climate change. Indeed, two papal documents concentrate exclusively on the matter. The latest apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, bitterly complains about how the People of God have not heeded e...

October 16, 2023

How Laudate Deum Fails

Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, is a hard document to characterize. Exhortations are supposed to encourage Catholics in their faith. However, this document deals with ecological issues and is addressed to “all people o...

September 26, 2023

China doesn't care about the environment

When a ship has a major leak, either the captain fixes the leak or saving the vessel becomes an exercise in futility. The water comes rushing in while the crew bails out the water. Sooner or later, the crew will tire and the ship will go down. The...

August 22, 2023

Why Johnny can't play tag

When little Johnny goes to school this fall, he may face another danger.  The poor boy already has trouble reading and writing.  He suffers from losing social skills and faces an assault upon his innocence through the destructive ...

July 21, 2023

Is D.E.I. Going to D-I-E?

Since the Floyd riots of 2020, the Left has promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs as must-have credentials for woke corporations eager to show concern for “marginalized” minorities. DEI is marketed as a way to addres...

April 22, 2023

Mao's Legacy

The book China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower is a chronicle of China’s rise to world power. Award-winning Dutch author Frank Dikötter is a China expert who bases his research on access to government documents and what he witnessed. H...

January 31, 2023

California's fake water crisis

This year, California was hit by not one, but nine "atmospheric rivers" that drenched the state, flooded communities, and filled reservoirs.  The storm fronts are called "rivers" because they concentrate their punch over...

December 7, 2022

How Debt Policies Are Provoking an Unavoidable Crash

The big problem with debt is that it is addictive. Once a person starts down this ramp, it is hard to stop before insolvency. Addictions give way to irrational action. Sometimes the only way to stop is to crash into something hard. The debt proble...

November 6, 2022

ESG Boomerangs on BlackRock

One persistent myth in today’s materialistic society is that money rules everything. Those wishing to understand why people act the way they do are told to “follow the money.” The lust for power and wealth trumps everything. Howe...

August 30, 2022

Writing Off Student Debt

President Biden’s plan to forgive student debt is clear: most students will get a $10,000 debt reduction, while lower-income students will be eligible to double the amount (an element that went unmentioned inmost reports). Biden’s August ...

June 9, 2022

What is a 'Loan'?

News commentator Matt Walsh has just released a documentary titled “What is a Woman?” He interviews many in the woke establishment, asking for a clear and concise reply to this simple question. The answers are full of academic gobbledygoo...

June 1, 2022

Challenging the Woke Financial Establishment

The greatest enemy of America’s financial future is not any foreign nation, government regulator, or dangerous ideologue. The existential threat to America today is the “woke” financial establishment. It is presently politicizing bu...

March 31, 2022

Waging War on American Energy

Russia’s war on Ukraine is changing the geopolitics of the world. The delicate situation calls for agility and improvising to adjust to a crisis that could quickly become ugly. The Biden Administration and Western Europe have imposed sanctions ...

March 16, 2022

Why Russia Invaded Ukraine

Just when everything seemed to be getting back to the new normal, abnormality struck again. The war in Ukraine is raging and changing the face of the globalized world. The situation is confusing as people struggle to find reasons behind the invasi...

February 8, 2022

What if we have a booming economy and nobody shows up?

The labor market is tight as employers scramble to find workers.  Too many jobs are chasing too few workers.  The official narrative is that the crisis is caused by the "Great Resignation," a move in which workers are re...

January 20, 2022

China's impossible COVID statistics

As the latest wave of COVID cases surges in the West, all is quiet in the East.  It has always been quiet.  Millions have died from the coronavirus epidemic as it sweeps the world.  However, few consider it strange that ...

July 23, 2021

Why the Global Minimum Tax Threatens American Sovereignty

The name "Global Minimal Tax" should immediately set off red flags. No American likes to hear the two words “global” and “tax” in the same expression. It implies a surrender of sovereignty to a vague and mysterious w...

May 20, 2021

Is Mom’s Apple Pie a Symbol of Oppression?

There is nothing more American than mom’s apple pie. The image of the hot sugar-crusted pie is a happy memory for countless Americans. Variations of this tasty dessert belong to all American mothers regardless of race or ethnic origin. Leave...

April 8, 2021

America Must Go Beyond Wishful Thinking About China

America and the West’s policy of “constructive engagement” with Communist China make up the most egregious case of wishful thinking in history. For almost fifty years, the West has pumped trillions of dollars into the Chinese experi...

January 19, 2021

Why ‘Helicopter Money’ Won't Help Us Out of This Mess

Imagine getting up one morning and finding helicopters hovering over the neighborhood. They are showering down cash on the community. All one has to do is go and pick up an allotted amount. Such a prospect might seem too good to be true. However, in ...

January 5, 2021

Promoting COVID Madness

In dealing with the COVID crisis, the public health experts have failed the nation, betrayed their mission, and spread confusion. So many outrages have been committed in the name of “science” that people are rightfully distrustful. Scienc...

January 1, 2021

The Dangers of Government Debt

It is that time again when liberals, sensing the possibility of being in control, are revving up the debt engines. So many things need to be done in a post-COVID world, and there is so little revenue to pay for it. Debt is the way out, they claim. ...

May 19, 2020

Human Problems Demand Human Solutions, Not Socialist Ones

In the fight against the coronavirus, most governments, including some state governments in the U.S., have enacted the Chinese lockdown model for industry. The plan shuts down all “nonessential” activities, lays off workers and expands go...

June 7, 2019

Undermining the Electoral College

A move is afoot to circumvent the Electoral College, especially in light of the 2016 election. States are now introducing legislation that seeks to undermine the institution. Fortunately, Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak of Nevada dared to veto one ...

April 27, 2019

MMT: The Latest Liberal Economic Fantasy

A good definition of a liberal might be someone who tries to ignore the actual nature of reality. Thus, many politically correct formulations distort reality even to the point of denying the differences between the sexes. Ignoring the na...

October 25, 2018

When political correctness endangers the community

The Kansas City Star recently reported on a minor incident at the Country Club Plaza, a popular upscale shopping area.  Someone fired a shot in a public square full of citizens.  Police immediately responded and tweeted ...

September 27, 2018

When Misery Has Too Much Company

Misery has a lot of company these days.  Perhaps too much.  The number of those unhappy, stressed, or lonely has reached its highest point on record.  America is not alone in its misery.  However, it is hardly ...

September 12, 2018

Global Debt Soars to $169 Trillion: Will We Ever Learn?

Ten years have passed since the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, the worst financial panic since the Great Depression.  Now it seems that some of the lessons learned back then are being forgotten.  Growing debt burdens in emerging m...

August 12, 2018

The Advantage of Keeping the Economy Human

Some people think of the new automated economy in terrifying and mechanical terms. In such a vision, machines reign supreme as they work tirelessly, silently and efficiently to maximize production and replace humans. Increasing automation will soon p...

July 14, 2018

Roe v. Wade: The Beginning, Not the End

With the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice, everyone is talking about overturning Roe v. Wade. A solid conservative majority could pave the way to putting that unpopular decision out of its misery. The funny thing about controversy is that...

June 7, 2018

Good Times Return, but Not Babies

There is an unwritten rule among those who watch the economy. When times are good, families have more babies. Across the board, the fertility rate of women of all ages goes up and the population is replenished. Young populations and prosperity are co...

January 27, 2018

Three Ways to Stop the DACA Nightmare

The “dreamer” debate is raging as the nation contemplates what to do with the 800,000 young people who came to America illegally as children alone or with parents or relatives.   Of course, this debate was foreseen. The Obama admi...

January 19, 2018

Three Reasons Why Bitcoin Is Not Money

With the dramatic rise of bitcoin, many are talking about this crypto-currency as the new money of the future. Such a simplification is understandable, since the matter of money is complex.  Not all that glitters is gold.  Like...

January 3, 2018

Why the End of Malls Will Not Make Shopping Any Better

As the Christmas season ends, there is a general agreement that the age of malls is coming to a close.  Retail sales are no longer dominated by the vast complexes of physical shops anchored by big-box stores once found all over the cou...

December 9, 2017

Can America's Schools Be Saved? An Insider Weighs In

The American education system has long been in crisis. It seems every administration seeks to reform the system, but it usually ends up making matters worse. The book, Can America’s Schools Be Saved? How the Ideology of American Education Is De...

September 27, 2017

Dishonor Is behind the Failure to Repeal Obamacare

The failure of the Graham-Cassidy attempt to repeal ObamaCare is symptomatic of a deeply unhealthy political system. The ObamaCare repeal was a signature issue of the 2016 campaign. Everyone from the president on down stumped on it. The Republican-co...

August 19, 2017

The growing tyranny of the culture-killers

The controversy around Confederate statue removal rages.  Revisionists are on the rampage with all the fury of communist mobs that want no memory of a past culture to remain.  They are involved in a cultural cleansing of heroes, legends, an...

July 10, 2017

How the West Became A Shepherdess of Wolves

Once upon a time, there was a shepherdess who was charged with keeping her sheep in the pasture and away from the clutch of the terrible wolves. Over the years, the shepherdess worked long and hard at this duty. Despite all her efforts, some sheep oc...

July 4, 2017

Liberals Are in Trouble – and They Know It

Conservatives often complain about the lamentable state of their movement. They would do well to look left.  Liberals are in greater trouble, and they know it. The recent special elections for vacant House seats made this evident. The thrashi...

April 12, 2017

Why Millennials Don't Follow the Liberal Narrative

The standard narrative about today's millennials is that they are unpredictable. They are very fluid and undefined. Despite this changeability, most people automatically assume that millennials are predictably liberal. The facts, however, tell...

February 23, 2017

What’s Left for the Left to Do?

If the 2016 elections proved anything, it was that the classic American order still prevails. Americans still have a strong attachment to the Founders’ vision of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Translating this conservative vision into...

December 7, 2016

Work without Men

Now that the elections are over, there is much talk of trade and jobs. Predictably, the highest priorities are being given to negotiating new trade arrangements and tax policies that will bring back jobs to America. It is true that businesses in A...

September 15, 2016

Answering a Troubling Question: Man, Woman, or Whatever?

A friend of mine recently rejoiced because he had finally found a job after being unemployed for a few months. It was an engineering job with a good company comparable to the one he had before. However, there was one thing about the final interview t...

July 29, 2016

How National Unity Is Forged in Unexpected Places

As the country struggles to find points of unity during this election year, politicians are offering all sorts of economic policies to bring together a fractured nation. They say jobs, wages and trade will make America prosperous and united again. Ho...

July 12, 2016

Dallas: The Target Is Order

Dallas was not just another attack by a lone shooter against defenseless civilians. Rather, it was a highly symbolic act against those who defend order. The target was order. The target was the uniforms and badges the officers were wearing. T...

June 30, 2016

Where does Britain Brexit to?

The debate over the meaning of Brexit is still raging.  It is hard to explain the fact that the full force of the British establishment, both on the left and right, lost the June 23 vote to remain in the European Union.  There were strange ...

June 18, 2016

‘Deep Work’: A Shallow Approach to a Deep Problem

There are many books that discuss the harmful effects of cyber distractions upon society and the individual. Such works offer compelling arguments that contribute to the growing skepticism in the general public about our relationships to our machines...

June 2, 2016

Addressing Our Fractured Republic

No one disputes the fact that the nation is polarized and coming apart. This is so evident especially in light of the 2016 election cycle. Likewise, no reasonable person can deny that we need to return to the order of social bonds that mitigate the e...

May 25, 2016

Are the bathroom wars 'idiotic stuff?'

I received an email from an irate reader who claimed that the bathroom wars were all about “idiotic stuff.”  Abortion, marriage, and other such issues are all the “frivolous nonsense” by which political parties rile up th...

April 3, 2016

What It Means for America to Be Great

One thing I ardently desire is that America continue to be great. This natural and wholesome sentiment is born of a patriotism of which I am not ashamed. I am proud to be an American and so I desire the best for my country. Contrary to the prevail...

March 20, 2016

The Crumbling of Certainties

In the scramble to make sense out of the present election cycle, analysts have come up with all sorts of theories. One popular explanation claims that people are hardening in their positions. On the left and the right, all parties are holding rigidly...

March 7, 2016

Who Is Framing the Narrative in the Political Debate?

Everyone acknowledges that this is not an ordinary election cycle. Almost as confusing as the campaign events are the explanations of those trying to explain why so many bizarre things are happening. Everyone has a take on the political carnival. ...

February 28, 2016

One Word Missing in the Election Debates

Listening to the rhetoric in the present political cycle, there seems to be a missing word. It is not “angst” or “frustration,” neither “equality” nor “jobs” or even the latest buzzword, “estab...

February 12, 2016

When Government Does Good Things Poorly

It is no secret that middle-class Americans are angry at the government and the general state of things. The so-called anti-establishment candidates appear to be channeling that rage to their camps. It is a raw undefined rage that is based more on...

February 6, 2016

Is This Election a Last Hurrah?

Many are attempting to make sense out of the present election cycle and especially the appearance of unconventional political outsiders that are dominating the headlines and in some cases the polls. Everyone seems to agree that the system doesn...

January 30, 2016

'They' is Destroying the English Language

Entering the new year, something tragic happened in the world of grammar and language usage. Over 200 linguists of the American Dialect Society met in Washington, D.C. to choose their “Word of the Year.” They overwhelmingly chose the sing...

January 16, 2016

Save Us from the Tyranny of 'Settled' Science

In classrooms across the country, high school students are taught the scientific method. It consists of constructing a doubtful hypothesis and designing a series of experiments to test the hypothesis with the observable facts. After a number of tests...

November 27, 2015

The Yik-Yak Revolution

There is a social media app popular on campuses nationwide called Yik-Yak. The way it works is that short Twitter-like messages (yaks) can be posted anonymously within a short-radius area. The best yaks are then voted up or down a list by those withi...

October 2, 2015

Life in the Shadows

If the pace of life seems overwhelming, it might well be because we have assumed so many of the jobs once held by others. This is the position of Craig Lambert in his book, Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs that Fill Your Day (Counterpoint, Berkel...

August 19, 2015

Do We Want a Business Model for Our Country?

With the nation polarized and unable to move forward, many people are suggesting that what our country needs is a business model for governing. Forget about the moral issues. Run the nation like a business and everything will come out all right. Find...

July 25, 2015

The War on the Culture War

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision mandating same-sex “marriage” nationwide is being heralded as the decisive blow in the nation’s Culture War. It is proof, pundits say, that Christianity is in decline and the massive reaction t...

July 23, 2015

Knowing What We Can't Not Know

In a world where baby body parts are bought and sold and marriage has been redefined, it is urgent that we reaffirm that there are certain broad, moral truths that we can’t not know. It needs to be said and proclaimed. We all know that one shou...

May 19, 2015

Probing the Libertarian Mind

In reading David Boaz’s The Libertarian Mind (Simon & Schuster, 2015), one is struck by the difficulty of the task he has undertaken. It is hard enough to define a libertarian since, as Boaz admits, they come in so many brands and flavors. ...

April 16, 2015

Our Kids: Why They Are in Trouble

If there is any doubt about the failure of the sexual revolution of the sixties, Robert Putnam’s, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis  (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015) overwhelmingly puts such doubts to rest. He proves that dramat...

March 23, 2015

Flying with the Hacker

Internet security has left me with many concerns, especially as I meet more and more people who have had their accounts hacked or vital information stolen. Despite all the security measures companies may take to keep bad people honest, the sad fact i...

March 6, 2015

Why Johnny Can't Sled Anymore

In the midst of this cold winter, I chanced to come upon a scene that gladdened my heart. It was a group of unsupervised boys sledding down a hillside. They weren’t only sledding. They were ramming into other sleds. At the bottom of the hill, t...

January 14, 2015

What is the Value of a $2.6 Million Watch?

  The Patek Philippe 5175R Grandmaster Chime Watch is clearly a work of art. It represents the top of the line and is undeniably beautiful. Yet one can ask: what purpose can it possibly serve if the majority of the population cannot buy it? H...

December 14, 2014

Jewelry Shop Economics

Quite by accident, I came to frequent a jewelry store that would help me take care of those small problems with watches that can be so vexing. I was tired of department store attendants who could not replace batteries or change watch bands. It seemed...

July 26, 2014

The Problem of 'Reinventing' the State

Occasionally there appear books that by their great insight and scholarship come to define the terms of the debate surrounding great controversies. The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldrid...

May 18, 2014

Time to Stop the War on Inequality

Advocates of equality are only too eager to overthrow the present economic structures in the name of fairness and opportunity. According to their logic, inequality begets a two-tiered society where moneyed interests rule, while all others languish. I...