August 12, 2024

The 2024 Election: Take Dilfer for the Ring

There has been a noticeable frustration with the Trump/Vance ticket in evangelical circles regarding abortion. Because the GOP candidates and platform have backed away from the full-throated defense of life in the womb and have taken a federalist app...

January 16, 2021

Breaking the Left's Race-Colored Glasses

The Civil Rights Movement reached its pinnacle in the 1960s with the passage of federal laws that dismantled segregation, voter suppression, and housing discrimination.  Black Americans suffered 100 years of second-class citizenship after t...

November 22, 2020

The Immaculate Election

Back in the days when sports were a pleasurable diversion from the grind of daily life, professional football presented some of the most exciting and unlikely turns of events that Americans could experience.  On December 23, 1972, as the cl...

June 27, 2020

Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Iconoclast Frenzy

Prior to the Charlottesville debacle regarding a Confederate general’s statue in summer 2017, I had been researching for some time on the life of Frederick Douglass.  Before the uproar over the Robert E. Lee’s likeness in a public pa...

November 8, 2019

For Democrats, Power Isn't Everything — It's the Only Thing

The partisan impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump is little more than the Democrats' latest attempt to gain what has always been the object of their party's desire: political power.  To the end of obtaining power, the Democratic...

December 22, 2018

A Tale of Harrowing Bureaucratic Hell

America has been considered the "land of the free" because of the liberties secured for us by our forefathers, from the Revolution to the Civil War to the World Wars of the 20th century.  But these freedoms have been undermined in...

September 28, 2018

Bill Cosby: Jailed because He Is Black

Formerly nicknamed "America's Dad," Bill Cosby – convicted of ugly sex offenses – will have incarceration as his life's epilogue. Cosby is the first high-profile figure felled criminally in the era of #MeToo. ...

August 13, 2018

Why the Left Loves Marx and Ignores Douglass

Two hundred years have passed since Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, a pair of important 19th-century historical figures, were born.  Marx's collectivist ideas are surging among America's young, while Douglass, a champion of civil ...

September 2, 2017

Trump and Islam: A New Hope or More of the Same?

Since the global jihad thrust itself into our national consciousness on September 11, 2001, America's arbiters of political correctness have over and again rejected every honest inquiry into Islam.  This willful refusal to explore the ideolo...

June 15, 2017

Defending the Indefensible

The false narrative of Operation Trump-Russia is the latest in a long train of episodes wherein Democrats have actively defended the indefensible.  Emerging in the 1820s to counter the Whigs in favor of Andrew Jackson in 1828, the Democratic Par...

May 19, 2017

The Left Needs Operation Trump-Russia

Without hard evidence to support it, the accusation that Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with nefarious Kremlinites to win the 2016 election is gaining momentum at an unnervingly fast pace.  This fact-free story has now led to the Deputy ...

April 30, 2017

Leftists, Ask Yourselves: ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?'

Since the left views Donald Trump as Hitler and the Republican Party – currently dominant in Congress and the majority of statehouses­ – as accomplices in his fascist tyranny, the existential question each liberal-progressive ought to...

March 2, 2017

A Bad Case of Christophobia

Among those phenomena most dreaded in liberal-progressive orthodoxy is "Islamophobia."  Because the left continues to shape the boundaries of public discourse, any question regarding Islamic doctrine or the conduct of Muslims that migh...

February 11, 2017

The Time Has Come for 51

After nearly three decades in L.A. County, Nestlé will soon move its headquarters from California to Virginia.  This food services giant with an estimated $235 billion in assets worldwide will by the end of 2018 remove 1,200 jobs from a s...

January 12, 2017

Trump Derangement Syndrome Comes to a School Near You

Though it is not to be found the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the debilitating condition of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) has gripped countless Hillary voters, particularly among the celebrity class, intellige...

December 11, 2016

Loving Individual Liberty

Hollywood’s dramatizations of black history have gained significant steam and acclaim over the past three decades, starting with Edward Zwick’s 1989 Civil War piece Glory. Before and after the turn of the millennium, films exploring slave...

November 24, 2016

Facts Trump the Left's National Tantrum

The left's national tantrum over the Trump victory, evidenced by freeway blockages, street riots, internet rants, harassment of members of the Electoral College, and tasteless displays of moral superiority from the Hollywood elite, is appalling....

August 4, 2016

Repeal the Johnson Amendment: Make Free Speech for Churches Great Again

While the media-begotten pseudo-scandals inundate the electorate with pro-Hillary messaging in an attempt to derail the Trump candidacy, it will do us well to consider some of the substance upon which concerned voters may wish to rely as they are sor...

June 28, 2016

Gun Control Is the New Jim Crow

Like vultures, the gun-grabbing left (including the full body politic of the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives) has pounced on the awful death scene in Orlando in the wake of the most heinous Islamic jihad attack on America since 9/11...

May 13, 2015

Credit Where None Is Due

Recently, a relative of mine whose political orientation was marinated in the stew of 1960s liberalism urged me to concede that the GOP ought to give President Obama a little respect.  My family member, who can’t resist sharing his progres...

March 27, 2015

And the grift goes on...

I've heard it all. Having been a public-school educator and social worker for the better part of three decades, I'd thought I heard and seen all the worst in the way the public sector functions, both on the delivery side (the government) a...

November 25, 2012

At the Crossroads

Still scrambling to develop a strategy for the future in the wake of the 2012 presidential election, the Republican Party is quite clearly at a crossroads. As America dives headlong into the next term of Obama's America, it is critical for the Republ...

November 18, 2012

Islamic Terrorism: Ignorance Is Not Bliss

With the growing focus on the scandalous personal behavior and questionable professional comportment of former CIA Director David Petraeus as related to the September 11 Benghazi attack, the investigation into what happened in this tragedy is becomin...

November 10, 2012

Gen-Xers Gave Us Obama's America

Optimism for conservatives in the aftermath of the re-election of President Obama is difficult to find, in spite of the faith many conservatives espouse.  What makes it even more distressing for many conservatives of Generation X is that our gen...