September 16, 2021

Misery indexed

As COVID-19 restrictions ebb and flow, we should note that regardless of how much pain and suffering these rules may have prevented, they also cost survivors in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For more than a year, we moped about with...

March 27, 2021

Biden agonistes

President Biden's first press conference was a disaster.  That Joe Biden is allowed to continue to destroy himself in public to the cacophonous din of the applause of the sycophantic media is prima facie evidence of three things: 1) Bid...

March 18, 2021

Legitimate illegitimacy

We have a president who achieved his office though unconventional — and in some cases, unusual — electoral means in several key states.  Of that there is little question among honest people.  He won despite a personal ...

March 14, 2021

Cuomo and public health laws

Andrew Cuomo’s situation is an interesting one – and one that informs us about a larger drive for total power that exists within the minds of Democrat leadership, their media enablers, and their strategic planners. This is a governor w...

February 5, 2021

America is nearing the last exit on the highway to Hell

The metastatic cancer of "cancel culture" that has taken root in the American sociopolitical environment features a couple of mechanisms all too common in communist regimes — purges and struggle sessions. In the former Soviet Union...

August 7, 2020

Antifa and absurdism

In his seminal 1960 essay, critic Martin Esslin coined the term "Theatre of the Absurd" to describe the work of playwrights who sought to express the human condition when existence seemingly has no meaning or purpose and therefore all commu...

October 23, 2019

Becoming what we fear and hate

"We become what we hate" is an old yoga maxim.  I would extend this expression to include fear, because it isn't just hatred that drives certain actions; fear does as well.  Fear and hate are two points on a continuu...

September 10, 2019

Progressivism's human dog parks

I caught a snippet of a report on the radio the other day.  I don't even know if I heard it correctly, but the statement I think I heard was that one of the most requested items for municipalities is now a "dog park."  They sa...

August 13, 2019

Mass shootings, politics, and the law

In Federalist #51, James Madison wrote: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." Madison's perspective is applicable in today's debate regarding gun laws.  Society clearly needs laws because we are n...

July 23, 2019

Why I don't vote for Democrats

Last week, a friend of mine offered that he thought that I was so ideologically bound to classical liberalism (i.e., conservativism) that I would never vote for a Democrat. Because he meant it as an insult — as in "you are so invested in y...

July 19, 2019

Democrats who call Republicans racist need to learn their history

Am I a racist? I'm told that I am.  In fact, since I've always been a conservative, I have always been called racist...by people I have never met nor will ever meet. As a matter of fact, the first time racism was employed as a...

June 17, 2019

Communism creeps in on cat's feet

In all honesty, today's so-called "democratic socialists" ("Demsocs" in Orwellian newspeak) are not communists — yet.  In the American states, where progressivism is trying to soft-sell socialism to the masses ...

June 12, 2019

Trump the deviant

President Trump is a deviant, of that there is no argument. On that, Democrats, NeverTrumpers and Trump supporters all can agree – and by “deviant”, I simply mean that he varies from the accepted norms. Now whether you see this as a...