January 25, 2017

A friendly word to Mr. Trump

Yes, I am a Hispanic male, married, and have only daughters.  So I do not fit the stereotype the mainstream media and the left (often one and the same) routinely showcase as the average irresponsible Trump voter.  I also suspect that many a...

April 17, 2011

Richard Dawkins: Atheist Stranded in a World of Purpose

Fifty years ago, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave a speech at an antireligious rally, where he declared that the celebrated cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had confided to him that while in space, he had peered into the infinite distance before him, but c...

February 6, 2011

Why, Harold?

Were it not for the fleeting and deceptive aura of respectability that so easily tempts our mortal frames, the onset of senility, not unheard of in men at his advanced age, could be the only possible culprit for Harold Camping's impetuous foreboding ...

January 1, 2011

The Seed. A Resolution for the New Year.

A seed is a very small thing.You plant it, and in that secret place under the earth, it feeds from the soil, it breaks, and then a shoot comes up from the ground.This small shoot seeks the light as it grows, and in time, it turns into a large tree....

December 24, 2010

Government as God

While my car was getting an oil change, I buried my face in a magazine article.  I was trying earnestly, albeit unsuccessfully, to drown the constant rattling of a young newscaster's pedantic discourse streaming via the flat-screen TV the shop's...

December 4, 2010

Why They Call It Taxachusetts

Recently my wife and I spent a night in a Boston hotel that boasted rather lavish accommodations; we even got our own matching bathrobes.Admittedly, the guest services in general were more than satisfactory. My only complaint is that the lady at the ...

November 4, 2010

The Obama Deck

President Obama apparently saw nothing wrong with publicly charging all Latinos and blacks with the solemn duty to come out in support of his congressional colleagues seeking reelection. During midterm elections he appeared not too concerned that suc...

October 17, 2010

Hitchens and the Mind-Forged Manacles of Atheism

During a fairly fascinating exchange with Washington Post's Sally Quinn, appropriately titled "A lifetime rebuking supernatural and superstitious claims," famous atheist Christopher Hitchens speaks about his own mortality at what looms as t...

September 26, 2010

Anne Rice Loses Her Religion

"I quit being a Christian." "I'm out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I ref...

July 25, 2010

The Evolutionary Scientists: Apostles of a New Morality

Most evolutionary scientists are unacquainted with the nearly extinct brand of academic deference which comes from a humbling realization that a science degree does not automatically confer a plenary understanding of the vast complexity of the univer...

June 23, 2010

Obama's Empathy Card

Behold Barack H. Obama, the ambitious, "in your face" young man who shrewdly campaigned and cruised to victory on the auspiciously timed "change the old way of doing things" motif. Far more competent predecessors have endured less...

May 26, 2010

Obamanomics 101

I am not an economist; but if you tell me that private businesses' incomes have gotten smaller while government-provided benefits have risen, you may not be able to call that a lot of things -- but you can definitely call it redistribution of wealth....

May 23, 2010

The Enemies Within

It is not entirely clear what possessed New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to disclose his peculiar suspicions that a yet-to-be-apprehended terrorist could very well turn out to be a right-wing enthusiast driven to violence because of his strong d...

April 16, 2010

The Two Obamas

President Obama is neither inconsistent nor a liar when he takes conflicting positions. Perhaps you may recall the time when Obama hedged his bets with two rivaling baseball teams by individually confiding with each team his mutually shared hope for ...

March 21, 2010

Faith, Charity, and the Atheist

Thanks to the congenital human faculty of empathy, there is no shortage of charitable agencies ready to assist people in dire straits. One venue which I find particularly interesting is a collection of -- for lack of a better definition -- "like...

February 24, 2010

What Do You Expect with Obama?

It's funny how the media almost always use the word "unexpectedly" whenever they report this country's state of affairs under the Obama administration. The now-familiar caption tends to run like this: Applications for job insurance claims r...

January 25, 2010

Massachusetts! Now What?

The best thing that conservatives and independents can do to pay tribute to Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts is to raise their glasses in an expeditious toast, drink it heartily, and then immediately return to the front lines. There is only a l...

January 23, 2010

Harry Reid's Negro Dialect Strategy

The supernatural ability to accurately divine the meaning behind the public testimonies of their adversaries is the sole intellectual proprietorship of liberals. This is why few conservatives have dared to audibly venture an interpretation of what Se...

January 16, 2010

Obama and Reality

The rather peculiar manner in which our current president reacts to what at face value is perceived as an imminent crisis versus the contrived serenity (some would call it aloofness) with which he confronts what by all accounts can be classified as b...

December 26, 2009

The Global Warming Matrix

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. -Morpheus (The Matrix)The public posting of e-mails from among the University of Anglia's Climate Research Unit -- also known by members of the irrepressible...

December 12, 2009

The Obama Four-Year Plan to Remake America

There are very good reasons why the United States of America is still worthy of being referred to as the greatest country in the world. This nation's very existence is a tribute to the unflagging spirit of innovation, courage, and self-determination....

November 15, 2009

The Peculiar Exploits of the 111th Congress

Alas, if only we were privy to the myriad wearisome yet awe-inspiring deeds upon which our tireless congressmen spend the bulk of their time laboring on our behalf. We might have a lot more empathy for their lot in life. Undoubtedly, their unswe...

November 13, 2009

Why?

I wonder who will be slated to get that coveted first interview with Maj. Nidal Hasan. With Obama's luck, it will probably be Fox News.Like me, I'm sure there are a lot of people waiting to hear what Mr. Hasan has to say.What will be his excuse? How ...

November 8, 2009

Obama's Unnecessary War

Before it became his cross to bear, President Barack Obama redefined the war in Afghanistan as a war of necessity. In contrast, he also preemptively labeled the other, less popular war which was grandfathered into his term as a war of choice. Presuma...

October 17, 2009

The Moral Universe of Liberals

Today's enlightened liberals are not so much into deconstructing rival iconic figures as they use to be. It may be because they are too busy fashioning alternative narratives, and sometimes even deliberately forgetting the lugubrious past history of ...

September 26, 2009

Barack Obama's Uninspiring Legacy

Primarily because of the color of his skin -- that patently obvious feature of his personal identity -- politically correct vernacular stipulates that our current President be grouped under the official category of African American. This should reall...

September 17, 2009

The House That Obama Built

This is the House that our Founders built.This is the Congressman who yelled "you Lie!" to President Obama, in the House that our founders builtThese are the Democrats, who cried "Racism", to the Congressman, who yelled "You ...

September 13, 2009

God and Edward M. Kennedy

At the risk of offending a grief stricken media, intent on canonizing the recently departed Senator Edward M. Kennedy (a necessary step for gaining entrance into the pantheon of liberal establishment idols), I direct attention to excerpts from a lett...

September 5, 2009

Obama's Orders Requireth Haste

The truth, as they say, is out there. It's just a matter of doing a little research.But we don't always have a lot of spare time for research. Especially when it comes to things like the massive Health Care bill the Obama administration has been tryi...

August 22, 2009

Obama, Ginsburg, and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger

From what surely must vie for the title of "Dingiest Gorge in Hell", the perdition bound soul of Margaret Sanger, posthumous Queen of the radical feminist movement, was unbeknownst summoned -- and just as quickly retired to the infernal pit...

July 24, 2009

If Obama Were My Friend

I am a Latino, as you may be able to tell from my name. You know; one who is constantly being harassed by the police and frequently getting stopped for dubious traffic violations because of his race. Generally I am also treated as a substandard human...

July 18, 2009

The Main Stream Media's March Toward Irrelevance

Prudent information consumers quiescently acknowledge that the daily platter of world events often served us even by the best of media sources, consists of, at best, an incomplete diet. Unfortunately this diet has steadily become unhealthier and less...

July 4, 2009

Obama's Future Memoirs

One thing that Obama will probably do when he leaves office is start to write his memoirs. He may probably even have started already; Obama likes to write books.I wondered if these memoirs would include the things we hope he will learn, as every othe...

June 24, 2009

The Dual Arts of Saving and Creating

A joke is told about a man who walked about constantly blowing a whistle, claiming that the annoying ringing sound kept the saber tooth tigers away. When confronted about the spuriousness of his preventative measures he responds: well, it must be wor...

June 21, 2009

Obama's Extremism

It's not easy being a right winger these days; or as most liberals prefer to call us: extremists. No sooner you fancy you are a welcomed member of society's rich and diverse cultural tapestry then someone goes and compares you to folk who stake out t...

June 13, 2009

Desperately Seeking Scapegoats for Obama

As absurd as it may sound, more Obama devotees than you think truly believe that the current economic crisis can be exclusively attributed to eight years of grossly irresponsible behavior on the part of George W. Bush, and possibly his dog. Moreover,...

May 21, 2009

Arabs, Jews, and the Swine Flu

It is reported that the Egyptian government is aggressively combating any potential spread of the much dreaded Swine Flu virus. In fact it has so fiercely engaged in tackling this growing pandemic, their drastic methods have even caught the attention...

April 29, 2009

Legal Torture: The Upturned Moral Universe of Progressives

The topic of torture is in the headlines again, resuscitated by the Democrats, an assembly most grievously afflicted with the bane of idleness. The reasons, of course, are manifold, leading among which is the fact that the Obama experiment is despera...

April 13, 2009

The Moderate Terrorist and Other Fairy Tales from the Party of Change

An appeal to our adversary's better nature, particularly as a venue towards forging compromise, ranks among the noblest of human endeavors. Perhaps that is what newly minted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had in mind at a recent conference o...

March 28, 2009

Spare Parts

The Brave New World is creeping closer, where some humans are designated to serve as a source of spare parts for others. At what juncture can the forces arrayed against life confidently announce that their brutish foot soldiers have already stormed t...

January 31, 2009

Obama and The Culture of death

"...it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit...

January 25, 2009

Obama as God's Instrument

I first endeavored to write this essay in order to validate for myself what I believed - from an inescapably finite vantage point - to be a most salient principle behind God's unsearchable providence. The principle I speak of is embodied in the Almig...

January 18, 2009

Take My President, Please

Many an ecstatic soul will be celebrating -- and justifiably so -- the coming inauguration of our next president, the first African-American to hold the office. Others will find a greater cause for rejoicing in the departure of our much maligned prev...

December 31, 2008

Proposition 8: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Poll

Undoubtedly spurred by the most altruistic of motives, analysts at the California Public Policy Institute, an independent, objective and non-partisan research network -- in their own humble estimation that is -- sensed a compelling interest in determ...

December 25, 2008

The Truth about Christmas

The story of Christmas is one that warms the heart and inspires our most enduring thoughts of peace and good will for all humanity; it gives us an opportunity to engage in the wonderful act of gift giving; it allows us to briefly turn our gaze from t...

November 22, 2008

Progressives and Obama's Acceptable Blackness

On the eve of Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination, a cry went out throughout the land. It was that of fire breathing liberals who could not believe that a conservative president would dare appoint a conservative judge to the highest court in th...

October 25, 2008

The Green Religion

Most people almost instinctually try their best to be responsible stewards of this earth's valuable natural resources. But the abrasive approach and militant tactics of many who fill the ranks of the environmentally conscious have led me to believe t...

September 27, 2008

Why Obama Will Lose

Moments of crisis have their purpose, not least of which is to witness how those weathering them will measure up to much greater challenges ahead. The recent financial market tumble afforded priceless opportunities to rate the strength of character o...

September 13, 2008

Obama and Life

One clever way to skirt a loaded question is to simply plead ignorance and yield to a higher (and preferably not easily accessible) authority that is deemed more qualified to probe the deeper nuances necessarily inherent in the best possible answer. ...

August 31, 2008

The Religion Vote

I do not feel that I am alone is suspecting that most politicians, pundits, and even some theologians are loath to venture a guess as to what demographic group is being referred to when the media insouciantly bandies about the phrase "The Religi...

July 31, 2008

Obama the Understudy

Obama wants to be president. Everyone knows that by now. But not everyone -- apparently not even Obama himself -- knows that to be president takes a little more than just wanting to be one or pretending to be one. And that it takes even far more to b...

July 7, 2008

Obama and the 'Image Thing'

At a fundamental level, elections hinge upon the most trusted intuitions voters have about their candidate's character. In most cases these intuitions are seldom aligned with the truth, as they are loosely based on external appearances and whatever t...

June 26, 2008

The Maturing Presidency of Barack Obama

The awesome responsibilities of the presidency has the potential to bring out the best in a person. How might Barack Obama, currently the frontrunner, react to a defining challenge in office?Many a progressive pundit, stunned and mystified by th...

June 8, 2008

Ahmadinejad and the Erratic Mind of the Democrat Voter

If you listened to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he periodically declares that the state of Israel will soon disappear, you'd think he's either forgotten to take his allotted dosage of lithium for that day, or that he is about to perform s...

May 10, 2008

Hillary's All or Nothing

It must be devastating for Hillary Rhodam Clinton to see her chances of becoming the Democratic nominee fade into oblivion. It has to be beyond infuriating to have the media that once so blindly worshipped and adored her mischievous better half ...

April 12, 2008

The Project

The folks at NEST (New and Emerging Science and Technology) must have been in God's mind when He confounded the language of Babel's over-ambitious citizens, as they tried to build a tower that would reach up to his very abode.The former have spearhea...

March 13, 2008

Obama's Achilles' Heel

When Obama last exposed his Achilles' heel, it happened inadvertently and without warning, amidst a fawning crowd of regulars upon whom a mighty spell had fallen.This possibly unscripted moment transpired when Obama, now revered for his uncanny abili...

March 1, 2008

Jihadists and Progressives: An Affair to Remember

General Douglas Macarthur once quipped that it was "...fatal to enter any war without the will to win it". Few epithets more accurately reflect the prevailing default setting of the majority of this country's Democrat contingent, arguably m...

February 16, 2008

Only a Dream

I remember waking up that morning, the full breadth of deep emotions evoked by a dream that had just ended, still aflame in my bosom.In my dream I wore a set of false teeth, much like a pair I once purchased at a novelty store; only I had someho...

February 9, 2008

The Bizarre Activism of Kurt Daims

One look at Mr. Kurt Daims and it is not unreasonable to assume that he is a militant devotee of his homeland's progressive jihad. The red beret, the flocculent, graying beard, the psychoneurotic glare; classic telltale signs of the average Bush-loat...

January 26, 2008

The Utopian Dream of Evolutionary Psychology

In today's progressive milieu, the evolutionary psychologist is the anointed high priest to the morally disoriented masses. This new breed seeks to "dissect our moral intuitions", while he hides behind the seemingly unbiased pretext that he...

December 20, 2007

Hillary, Bonhoeffer, and the Meaning of Truth

In his seminal work on Ethics the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that "it is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to tell a lie."At first glance, coming from a brilliant mind such as Bonhoeffer's, this c...

December 11, 2007

The End of a Debate

What happens when an unexpected development suddenly makes it no longer necessary for adherents of a certain ideology to engage in conflict? The recent discovery that gives scientists the ability to turn skin cells into cells that share identical pro...

November 23, 2007

The Curiously Discreet Candidate

It would appear that the 2008 presidential elections will most likely hinge not on the stances candidates have assured their voters they have publicly taken on any given issue, but on the stances voters hope their candidates are already sworn to in s...

October 27, 2007

Imus, Take II

I confess: I typically ranked as more than an irregular listener of the Imus morning program. My sensitivity meter was calibrated in such a way that when I listened to him, the needle typically hovered between the "mildly annoying-yet funny...

October 14, 2007

God and Nancy Pelosi

Oddly enough, the personal prayers of the Speaker of the House recently entered the national conversation. In an interview with Chris Wallace, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked if she prayed for the troops... to win.Those Fox news commentators ask the d...

September 25, 2007

War and the Progressive Mind

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, becaus...

September 14, 2007

One Iraqi Life

Reporting any news of G.I.s killed in Iraq is a proven way for the media to stir up the American public's feelings of exasperation with the war. Lately, given the noticeable drop in American casualties, they have been taken to task with trying to aro...

September 1, 2007

The Other Clash of Civilizations

Whenever overzealous Atheists affirm their intellectual sovereignty over questions of final causes, they risk engendering the same mistrust from a public that once viewed their theological counterparts as equally suspect, because of their purported c...

July 24, 2007

Just the facts, Ma'am

Perhaps I missed it, but I have yet to read if the Associated Press, the spigot from which virtually every news media outlet fills their vessel, posted a retraction after hastily -- and erroneously -- reporting that none of the benchmarks the Bush Ad...

June 24, 2007

On Time

Henry Van Dyke once wrote this beautiful poem: Time is too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.Although the gist of the poem seems t...

April 28, 2007

Darwin's Nose

It would seem that Charles Darwin was not particularly fond of his own physical appearance.  In what sounds subtly like a self-deprecatory gesture, he once wrote to his staunchest supporter and highly devoted Christian pen pal, the respected Ame...

March 12, 2007

A Plan to stop Global Warming that is Out of this World

It is an inevitable fact of life that the integrity of a particular social movement will sooner or later be compromised - or its absurdity exposed - by the unforeseen display of poor judgment on the part of its staunchest defenders. In a recent inter...

March 1, 2007

German Engineering Meets the Thought Police.

I remember sitting placidly in my living room watching the TV when I first saw the Volkswagen commercial; little did I know it would become another victim on the long list of untimely casualties of political correctness. I should have known it was on...

February 4, 2007

The Progressive Ethics of Impropriety

There are some subjects that are so thoroughly offensive, the mere kindling of curiosity about them would make the most uncouth individual feel as if he has been somehow sullied; yet independent film director Deborah Kampmeier has chosen to anoint he...

January 16, 2007

Ashley "X"

There is something unsettling about the taking of steps to manipulate the natural growth of any human being. Unless the person's growth represents a life threatening condition, it is hard to justify this type of treatment despite the executor's best ...

December 9, 2006

The Underestimated Power of Shame

"Think twice about what you are going to say, especially if you are going to say what you're thinking." So goes the old adage. This advice is a caution that seems to garner very little support in an era when airing one's dirty laundry ...

October 18, 2006

Who's Really Optimistic About the Election?

The strategy of engendering  a fury that eventually yields to wholesale apathy in the conservative base does not seem to have worked out as Democrats had hoped. The engineered saturation of the public with the Mark Foley scandal has failed ...

September 26, 2006

Storytelling and the War We Fight

Stories are the stuff of daily life. They give structure and meaning to our existence within the continuous flow of history. They awaken us to the significance of our individual and collective roles within the context of a common narrative. Fragments...