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December 10, 2024
DOGE should streamline the military academies to save moneyI hear that two patriotic billionaires are trying to cut federal spending. Considering we are beyond broke (32 trillion in debt and counting), I hope they are successful. I have a modest suggestion for reducing federal spending that involves downsizi...
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November 13, 2024
A proposal for ending Americans’ distrust of electionsWhat to my wandering eyes should appear on Veterans’ Day morning? The Telegraph reports, “Left-wing conspiracy theorists claim Elon Musk used satellites to ‘steal’ US (2024) election.” I guess the foot is on the other sh...
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October 20, 2024
The ‘Whoops, I misspoke’ Hall of InfamyI bet Neville Chamberlain wishes he hadn’t announced “Peace in our time” to his British countrymen after meeting Hitler in 1938 in Munich. When General Joe Hooker laid out his battle plans before the Battle of Chancellorsville in Ma...
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October 17, 2024
Who is out of step?A long time ago, when I was in the Coast Guard OCS, I had some difficulty learning how to march in step with my classmates. With practice, however, I improved and felt more comfortable with the demands of marching in formation. As I watched Bret Baie...
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October 9, 2024
Americans deeply resent the ‘bullet fee’ that the left imposes on themThere are many reasons for Americans to remain angry about the terror attacks of 9/11 in New York City, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon. What galls me the most, however, is that the perpetrators used our own planes to kill so many and do ...
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October 6, 2024
Kamala wants to lead, but she’s hiding from Americans where she plans to goKamala, like all Democrats, knows that if she tells us the truth, she will not get elected. Instead, she offers us George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen, and “joy.” A leftist organization from 1998, created to try to get people to ignore Bill Clinton’...
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September 21, 2024
Trump needs to pop Harris’s ‘joy’ balloon by stating the factsWhether it’s Harris or Trump who loses the next election, each will be fine financially. Losing hurts, but Harris’ millions and Trump’s billions will cushion the discomfort of defeat. Those of us without cushions stuffed with cash, ...
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September 12, 2024
Open gates and bad outcomesThe Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck’s novel about The Great Depression, offers many valuable lessons. One shows up early in the novel as Tom Joad, the main character, returns to his family home after his release from prison. He and former preac...
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September 3, 2024
November 5th is a referendum on America’s energy independenceTowards the end of the 19th century, Karl Benz invented a machine that changed the world. It was crude, but like the Wright brothers’ first plane, it transported humans without needing horses and hay. This first three-wheel car used a fuel call...
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September 2, 2024
Cheating educrats, cheated taxpayers, and the coming great educational divorceThere comes a time in a rocky relationship when one or both of the parties asks, “Why am I doing this?” If you listen carefully, the coming Great Educational Divorce whispers are everywhere as nearly 50 million American children return to...
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September 1, 2024
This November 5th is a referendum on ‘The Swamp’According to Google Maps, I live 39 miles from The White House. Looking at the region around the White House, I’ve thought about what might be a mascot for what Donald Trump and his supporters call The Swamp. How about Polyphemus, the one-eyed ...
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August 29, 2024
How badly does Donald want a second term?Labor Day is nearing, and this is when people who are going to vote in the upcoming presidential election pay close attention to the remaining candidates. I am settled on voting for Trump. I wish my confidence were higher in his chances. Sin...
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August 23, 2024
I vote for what Clinton calls 'Chaos'Listening to Bill Clinton’s speech at the DNC convention reminds me that he is older, but not wiser. I wonder if he can define what the word ‘is’ means yet. Clinton, along with the Obamas, wants to see his party, the so-called De...
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August 14, 2024
In 2024, who is America’s best ‘course correction’ candidate?Today, according to RealClearPolitics’ polling average, 65% of Americans feel this country is headed in the wrong direction. Also, today, we are 84 days from the next presidential election. The incumbent, Joe Biden, is not running, so we are lo...
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August 10, 2024
Trump versus the opaque Obama empireDonald Trump has a body of work for his friends and enemies to examine as he campaigns for a second term. He is running on his record as a real estate developer and his record as the 45th POTUS. His motto is Make America Great Again. Opposing form...
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July 30, 2024
America: To bulldoze or not to bulldozeOccasionally, my wife muses about us buying another house. Her arguments are sound, but I’ve grown attached to our modest three-bedroom Cape Cod, where we have raised our boys and created many memories. I was a service brat growing up so the fa...
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July 27, 2024
Modern events are eerily similar to a biblical narrativeIf you want to kill someone without getting your hands dirty or arousing suspicion, read 2 Samuel 11 in the Bible. This passage does not guarantee that you will get away with your crime, but it does show how to obtain cover or plausible deniability. ...
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July 14, 2024
To protect Joe and endanger his opponentsWe are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. Obama, the Clintons, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, and the rest of us are beginning to find out that getting Biden out of the White House is more difficult than getting ...
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July 1, 2024
After Biden -- Moore, or less?Some of us weary of DEI wonder if it means “Didn’t Earn It?” Others hiss and remind us that DEI means “Don’t Even Inquire!” That's what's in mind now given the unanswered questions swirling around ...
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April 8, 2024
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who threatens Democracy the most this Fall?“Democracy is on the ballot.” Underdog President Biden and his campaign are beating drums proclaiming that former President Trump is a “threat to democracy.” They claim that Trump was the ringmaster of the January 6th so-calle...
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March 9, 2024
Americans must choose their “Shepherd in Chief” wiselyWe have an election in eight months to pick our leader for the next four years. There are many ways to view this election, but I think we ought to ask ourselves in these daunting and perilous times which of the two candidates is most committed and be...
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March 2, 2024
Trump can do something to make education better and win teachers to his causeHave you noticed that President Biden’s hold on his core constituencies is more uncertain these days than his stumbling attempts to board Air Force One? Biden’s abundant weaknesses give President Trump and his campaign a target-rich atmos...
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February 19, 2024
Count me out when it comes to celebrating a generic ‘Presidents’ Day’I like a holiday as much as the next guy, but Presidents’ Day puts me in a bit of a pickle. I respect the Office of the President, and I love this country, but I also know that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has housed more than its share of skunks. ...
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February 15, 2024
Chumming the border for illegal aliensWe’re in a mell of a hess! I blame it on the late Senator Ted Kennedy and all those folks who hate American history. By hook and crook, they have created an immigration crisis that must be resolved one way or another. As I try to get my mind ar...
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February 11, 2024
The strange case of Lamar JacksonI am not Lamar Jackson’s biggest fan. I readily admit that he is an amazing athlete and the quarterback of my hometown team, the Baltimore Ravens. But is he really that great, or are the accolades flowing his way coming from another place? R...
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February 2, 2024
Choose your future: Trump or Obama?Will it be former president Trump versus President Biden in 2024? Or will it be former First Lady Michelle Obama versus former President Trump? These questions and the instability of our times make for much handwringing and prayer here in the early d...
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January 18, 2024
Want to Make America Great Again? Say ‘I Do.’The best way to make America Great Again is to make traditional marriage in America great again! (Melissa Kearney makes this argument in her excellent new book, The Two-Parent Privilege.) So, who will be the MAGA candidate brave enough to champion tr...
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January 17, 2024
Trump needs to tell voters what MAGA really meansPresident Biden has gone from Independence Hall to Valley Forge, painting MAGA as the most toxic and deadly pestilence ever to hit American shores. Rumors abound that he will go to Ford’s Theater next to shoot more holes in the MAGA brand. H...
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January 14, 2024
Is football leading us to hedonism?“Hi, my name is Ned, and I am addicted to football!” I have come to believe that the NFL and the NCAA, driven as they are by greed, are hoping to replace faith in our society. They want us to exchange faith for hedonistic ac...
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December 25, 2023
What is wrong with this Christmas party?My historian instincts have always been interested in the beginning of things. Here we are at Christmas again, and I wonder about the history of gift-giving. Where did our tradition of giving each other gifts begin? Patrick Mabilog wrote a thought...
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October 15, 2023
Sometimes, an obsession with externals can lead to internal enlightenmentIt was Spirit Week at the middle school where I work. Tuesday was Breast Cancer Awareness Day, so the students wore all sorts of pink decorations to support the fight to make Breast Cancer obsolete. At my school, where peer pressure is as great as gr...
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September 28, 2023
Conscientious objection in public educationDoes the freedom to listen or not listen fall under our rights of free speech? Yes! If I am watching something on TV that I find offensive or objectionable, I can flip the channel, turn off the boob tube or mute the box. These actions happen all the ...
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September 26, 2023
Examining Donald Trump and the Evangelical voteI like a good joke as much or more than the next guy. Laughing releases something in us that feels very healthy and enlightening. I love a good laugh. God gives us reason to laugh every day if you go looking. Consider, for example, the odd pairing...
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August 1, 2023
Looking at the Republican presidential candidates, who will stand for freedom?As they scramble up Mount Excellency in the months before the presidential election of 2024, knowing only one of them will get to the top, is there a future leader of America and the free world among them who will stand up like a modern Moses and say...
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July 25, 2023
Who will be the innocent who speaks the truth to the transgender crowd?Make-believe is fun as long as we have the freedom to stop when we tire of playing. Now, however, the wonderful folks that gave us Sodom and Gomorrah want to compel us and our children in public schools to agree with them that their perverse sexual p...
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July 14, 2023
Reforms for 2024, as suggested by Paul of Tarsus and Harry TrumanAs the election of 2024 draws closer, we are hearing more and more about the family of President Biden. We are also hearing pundits question if one set of laws applies to politicians and another set applies to the rest of us. The public...
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July 8, 2023
When it comes to presidents, how low can we go?If you listen to the conservative pundits, President Joe Biden is the most corrupt politician ever to walk God's green earth. If you listen to leftist pundits, former President Donald Trump is a traitor scheming with Putin to make fasc...
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April 25, 2023
The 2024 Republican candidate must speak out for Taiwan’s libertyIt seems apparent that the freedom-hating communists ruling China are planning to invade the freedom-loving island of Taiwan. The world is watching to see if America, known as the “land of the free,” and the other free countries in the wo...
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April 16, 2023
Going into 2024, Trump reminds me of a famous film characterIn my recent posts, I have questioned former president Trump’s 2024 candidacy. My posts have drawn howls from sea to shining sea. While the Trumpistas check their weapons, offer me a cigarette, and a blindfold, I would like to explain why I bel...
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April 9, 2023
Arrogance in the White House can be dangerousIt appears that we have two proud and haughty men squaring off against each other in the upcoming 2024 presidential election, namely Joe Biden and Donald Trump. A proverb in the Good Book says, “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty ...
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March 27, 2023
Is Donald Trump using evangelicals?As President Biden's failures accumulate and the election of 2024 draws closer, evangelicals in America are once again looking over like-minded candidates seeking for a leader they can count on to put America on a godlier course. This ...
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January 7, 2023
The NFL's future: Rude reality and the questions still scrimmaging in our headsSomeone once jested, "When you close the door on reality, it comes in through the side windows." How do you unsee something you witnessed with your own eyes? We all recall with horror how George Floyd died. Some of ...
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November 20, 2022
Godly rainbows and ungodly replicasWhy would LGBTQ+ leaders hijack a beloved biblical symbol and call it their own when the Bible repeatedly identifies their lifestyles as abominations? The symbol they have wickedly appropriated is the rainbow. The Book of Genesis teaches that the ...
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November 16, 2022
Trump train tickets and comfort zonesI voted for Donald Trump in 2016 for POTUS. I voted for him again in 2020. Now, he is asking me and many others to vote for him again in 2024. 2016 and 2020 are now part of history. As I was driving to pick up necessities at the local food store this...
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November 12, 2022
Biblical echoes in the coming battle between Trump and DeSantisIs this déjà vu all over again? Is King Saul feeling jealous of young David again? Is King Saul throwing spears at David? Haven’t we heard this story before? Donald Trump (King Saul) is throwing spears at Ron DeSantis (David). ...
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October 19, 2022
LeBron’s ‘man of the people’ charade with AT&T’s LilyMy faith commands me to love others. Some people, however, are harder to love than others. I confess I have a hard time loving or admiring LeBron James. AT&T and its advertisers are currently running an ad featuring LeBron as the her...
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October 17, 2022
Love is love! Really?Social Justice jingoists now proclaim that “Love is love.” Have you seen this new expression? Love is love! What does it mean? Where did it come from? Why is it being promoted? After a bit of searching, I found one famous person using ...
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September 8, 2022
When it comes to the election, methinks Joe Biden protests too much"I will not stand by and let elections be stolen by people who simply refuse to believe that they lost," bellowed President Joe Biden during his primetime "Gates of Hell" speech last Thursday night. He looked angry and sounded ...
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September 3, 2022
Independence Hall gets the 'blood and fascism' treatmentI visited Independence Hall a few years ago. It was a spring weekend, and my son was competing nearby in a Little League tournament. During one of the extended breaks, my wife, my two boys, and I visited the birthplace of Americ...
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August 24, 2022
Life in WokelandWhile illegals continue to pile across America's southern border in pursuit of the American Dream, the tickets to Wokeland are not selling. They are about as popular as Don Joe Biden. His regime does not want us to notice th...
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August 20, 2022
Are we burning political bridges too easily?As I listen to the wireless and other media reports about the tragic cultural wars ravaging this land we love, I wonder if we on the conservative side are shooting ourselves in the foot and burning bridges we should not burn. If we hope to...
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August 19, 2022
Why are teachers walking away?Since Obama became president in 2009 with his stated goal of transforming America, the growing message to teachers at government schools across the fruited plains of America is this: be woke or be gone! Now, to the utter dismay and disbelief of th...
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August 15, 2022
Looking for the root causes of disastrous historic eventsLife is not always fair. After the Great Chicago Fire, a reporter named Michael Ahern blamed Mrs. O’Leary and her cow for this famous conflagration in 1871. Years later in 1893, Ahern confessed he had made up the story, but the damage to Mrs...
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August 14, 2022
Is Biden finally taking Donald behind the gym?On October 21, 2016, when asked about then-candidate Donald Trump, then-Vice President Joe Biden said, “The press always ask me, don’t I wish I were debating him. No, I wish we were in high school; I could take him behind the gym.” ...
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August 13, 2022
Stopping the Chinese Communist Party gravy train to HellSenator Tom Cotton, from that wonderful state that gave us Bill Clinton, is proposing that we ban Communist China from purchasing land and real estate in America. Whether he is virtue-signaling or sincere, I think Senator Cotton is on th...
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August 10, 2022
Desperately disqualifying Donald"Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime" was a guiding principle of Lavrentiy Beria. Beria was Joseph Stalin's notorious head of the Soviet Secret Police. His notion gives curious homage to the biblical t...
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August 7, 2022
What 'We The People' want in Election 2024Trump has ordered a new paint job for his campaign plane. He gives no indication that he is done with politics; in fact, he is endorsing conservatives and campaigning for them. He has been unfairly impeached twice— and one of those involved bei...
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July 30, 2022
Biden's inability to acknowledge the recession speaks volumes"I made a mistake!" With four words, a leader can own an error, open the door to correction, and let the rest of the world breathe. At critical points in their careers, John Kennedy, Lee Iacocca, and John Lennon faced reporter...
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July 28, 2022
Are we going to let the saboteurs win World War III?Jeff M. Lewis aptly summarized the craziness of the last three global pandemic years, calling the actions of the vast left-wing conspiracy "The Greatest Crime Of Our Lifetimes." I agree. The saboteurs behind ...
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July 26, 2022
One nation snuffs out freedom wherever it finds itOnce upon a time (1972), Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger wanted to pull ahead of the Soviet Union in that era's Top Dog Superpower Dog Race. They came up with a strategy to weaken the USSR — call it the "Sink the USSR Plan...
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July 24, 2022
Does TikTok have cooties?I am currently having a difference of agreement with a good friend I met way back in 5th grade at Tokeneke Elementary School. My friend is a TikTok aficionado. He has sent me several TikTok videos over the last year. Today, I asked him to stop. Wh...
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July 23, 2022
Steaming ahead in the darkness of nightThere are critical periods in history and slack periods as well. This essay is not about slack periods. April 1865, for example, stands out as a critical period in U. S. History. On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to U...
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July 21, 2022
We, the people, want the truth!In the movie The Right Stuff, flight control in Houston gets a warning that astronaut John Glenn's Mercury capsule has a possible loose heat shield. "What are we going to tell him?" voices an anxious member of flight con...
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July 19, 2022
Jill Biden spills the beans about public schools indoctrinating studentsDid you hear the first lady blow her dog whistle last week? Jill Biden, who insists on being called Doctor Jill Biden, made remarks in Boston before a gathering of America's second largest teachers' union, the American Fe...
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July 16, 2022
The once-great city of Baltimore: America's Chernobyl"I wish they could do something about the squeegee boys!" said a witness to Timothy Reynolds's shooting. Last week, "squeegee kids" near Baltimore's Inner Harbor approached Reynolds, a father of three, as he sat in his ...
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July 14, 2022
Green gang risks gangreneFor reasons I cannot completely fathom, there are teachers, professors, and politicians who look at the problems of pollution in our time and demand radical and self-destructive measures to curtail pollution. I call these people the Green ...
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July 11, 2022
Plumb lines and America in 2022Veteran and Silver Star–winner Carl Spurlin turned 100 years old recently. The article about him had a bittersweet quality because the decorated Marine said of modern America that this "isn't the country we fought for."...
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July 10, 2022
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the prettiest candidate of them all?In presidential politics, many of us seem to be enchanted with pretty faces. As was earlier true with John Kennedy, Gary Hart, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Martin O’Malley, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom...
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July 9, 2022
It's time for a Marshall Plan for American familiesDo you recall the expression, "What's good for General Motors is good for the country?" It emerged in 1953, when President Eisenhower nominated GM president Charles Wilson to become his secretary of defense. A sena...
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July 7, 2022
Are the military service academies wasting taxpayer dollars?I miss Senator Proxmire of Wisconsin, and you should, too! Even though he was a Democrat, I enjoyed how he poked fun at the outlandish spending that emanates from Capitol Hill. From 1975 to 1988, Senator Proxmire awarded Golden ...
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July 6, 2022
Parents, beware! The groomers are out thereMany of us have watched wildlife documentaries allowing us to see exotic wild animals like elephants and hippos caring for their young. What we soon discover as we watch these videos is that dangers lurk on the periphery of these scenes....
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July 2, 2022
When it comes to abortion, is there handwriting on that wall?Most human carnivores, myself included, do not want to pay visits to slaughterhouses to see the processes involved in how we get our chicken parts or ground beef for our upcoming Fourth of July cookouts. My father, for example, lost his ap...
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June 29, 2022
Report cards and an academic judgment dayAt this time of year, all over America, many students are sweating emails or snail mail reports of how they did in their last marking period in government schools. I recall those sweats. For example, during my junior year in high school, I was not...
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June 26, 2022
Playing chicken with technologyA father named Polonius in the play Hamlet offers his son, Laertes, some advice as Laertes prepares to return to school in France. He offers several gems to his son but “Give thy thoughts no tongue” is the one that stands out in my mind. ...
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June 25, 2022
Trojan ponies, tech thugs, and cyber-baronsMaybe it is just me, but I get annoyed when I hear ads on TV or the radio offering us protection from hackers and other cyber-minions. These ads urge us to buy monthly policies that protect our computers from malware, eavesdropping, and home title pr...
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June 23, 2022
Trickle-down lawlessnessYears ago, when I was studying leadership in the Coast Guard's Officer Candidate School, we were told that a good leader never asks his crew to do something he would not be willing to do. I always thought there was an appealing symmetr...
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June 22, 2022
A new name for a changed capitalOne of the most powerful scenes in the film It's A Wonderful Life shows a desperate George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) sliding and slipping through the snow and ice in Pottersville while looking for familiar and friendly faces. Th...
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June 21, 2022
Houston, we have a problem 'cause it's a 'mell of a hess' hereOur Founding Fathers gave us an excellent and enlightened foundation for governance. Our form of government is sufficiently attractive that foreigners have always come here seeking American citizenship. The leaders who signed th...
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June 19, 2022
On climate, Americans don’t want to die because of a theoryIt seems obvious to me that the current occupant of the White House and his backers would rather see the American SUV with all 330,000,000 of us aboard drive off a cliff rather than allow us to use the abundant fossil fuel within our borders. While I...
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June 18, 2022
Whether it's killing a king or a baby, these are Unnatural ChoicesYears ago, when I learned I would teach Macbeth as part of my high school English class, I got comfortable and started reading. Since I was already a fan of Shakespeare, I looked forward to the encounter. Oddly, I did ...
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June 16, 2022
In Congress, it's time for McChange!Every time I get excited thinking about the elections in November 2022, my rapture is checked by the prospect that Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are in line to lead the Republican Party in the Senate and the House of Representatives. ...
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June 14, 2022
Where's Ray Epps?Since 1987, some of us have spent leisure time asking, "Where's Waldo?," looking for him in crowded cartoons clad in his red and white striped shirt. It passes the time and stimulates the mind. Since January 6, 202...
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June 8, 2022
Moonlighting Joe, the part-time presidentIf you listen to conservative media, you get the impression that the Biden administration is "hands down" the worst since our first, and perhaps greatest, president, George Washington, was inaugurated in 1789. Biden's gaffes,...
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June 1, 2022
I'm for debating anything"In all my years, I never seen nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell, yes. I'm for debating anything," declared Delegate Stephen Hopkins in a scene from 1776, th...
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May 29, 2022
Regarding the Uvalde shooter, are we really being told the truth?Where was Salvador Ramos born? Early reports say he was from North Dakota. North Dakota is a big state. In what town in North Dakota was the future mass killer born? Where is a copy of his North Dakota birth certificate? How about a baptism certifica...
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May 27, 2022
Escape from M. A. D."It worries me that we have stopped listening to each other," lamented my politically liberal English Department chairperson one day several years ago. As a conservative, I begrudgingly had to admit that her comment sounded proph...
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May 10, 2022
The ongoing fight against slaveryThe slavery virus was alive and well in America when our new nation was born on July 4, 1776. Our founding fathers understood the dangers that particular virus presented, but they realized that independence was not attainable without suppo...
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March 21, 2022
Women have more power than they know against 'Lia' ThomasWilliam Thomas of Texas is confused. Born as William Thomas, he now claims he is a woman and has changed his name to Lia Thomas. Under normal circumstances, William's confusion would not make the news, but in this wildly wok...
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March 16, 2022
Man up, JoeJoe Biden seems both surprised and angry at his low popularity and the unpopularity of his programs. There are many factors contributing to his current plight, but the biggest, the elephant in the room, is the fact that many Americans have...
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March 7, 2022
Rooting for Taiwan, the 'David' in AsiaTaiwan is a democratic country in Asia, but the United States and most of the nations of the world do not recognize it as a sovereign nation. Why? Because recognizing Taiwan would offend the nearby communist plantation called Ch...
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March 5, 2022
What obligation do we have if we see something to say something?What are we supposed to do when we see something or hear something that is wrong and should be reported to authorities? Do we look the other way or report the incident? These are important questions as our society has gone from ...
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March 2, 2022
Is Donald Trump coachable?I voted enthusiastically for Trump in 2016. I voted for him in 2020 with a bit less enthusiasm. At the just-concluded CPAC convention, Trump emerged as the favorite of conservatives, garnering 59% of the straw poll, while DeSant...
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February 25, 2022
A game-changing proposal for the Big GuyIt has been a bad first year for Biden. Biden and his allies claim that, in his victory, he received more votes in the 2020 presidential election than any candidate has ever received. Many question that claim, but Biden and his ...
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February 22, 2022
What we have here is a failure to educateIs the USA in 2022 a military superpower? Yes. Is the U.S. economy in 2022 a superpower? Yes. Is the USA in 2022 a superpower in terms of public education? Not hardly, or, as Biden likes to say, ...
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February 12, 2022
Are Republicans engaged in premature cackling?It is mid-February 2022, and we conservatives are watching Joe Biden blunder and gaffe his way into infamy. Biden's poll numbers are in the toilet. Democrat members of Congress are announcing their plans to retire in alarmin...
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February 6, 2022
It’s time for plain speaking about communismI like political leaders who speak plainly about the dangers of communism. I recall Ronald Reagan calling the communists in Russia an evil empire for the way they oppressed their people and the peoples of Eastern Europe in the 1980s. I liked the way ...
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November 19, 2021
Why I won't watch the CCP Olympics? (Let me count the ways)It gives me a way to tell Chairman Xi he is number one with the equivalent of a well known hand gesture. It gives me a way to tell Brandon that we know he is "on the take" from CCP. It gives me a way to thank NBC for all its fair and ...
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November 5, 2021
Educrats and false advertisingImagine you are driving down the road with your family, and you pass a school proudly displaying a National Blue Ribbon banner on the side of the school. What do you think? Many, I suspect, would be impressed. Some mi...
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November 4, 2021
Who is in charge of American public education?As Terry McAuliffe and the Democrats reflect on McAuliffe's recent failure to become governor of Virginia again, they might want to revisit what he said during his last debate with Governor-Elect Glenn Youngkin, for it speaks volumes about the se...
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October 28, 2021
Progressive schools encourage juvenile delinquencyAs I follow the cover-up in nearby Loudoun County Public Schools of the rape of a young girl by a transgender classmate, I am not as surprised as others by the school board's mendacity. In the spring of 2015, an incident occurred in one of my ...
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September 24, 2021
America's media are practicing bad medicineWhen the media hide important information from us to achieve their political agendas, it doesn't matter if they apologize after. Their initial decision was the media and political equivalent of bad medicine. Let me explain. ...
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September 11, 2021
Globalism plus propaganda equals 'Globaganda'With all due respect to President Trump or whoever first coined the term fake news, I think it needs to be replaced with something a bit more accurate and descriptive of what is happening in the 21st century. I propose Globaganda...
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September 9, 2021
Thou shalt not proselytizeTwenty-eight years ago, I interviewed for a teaching position at a public high school in Maryland. After getting the good news from the principal that he would hire me, he gave me a warning. Seeing that I had earned a Master of ...
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September 2, 2021
An important American demographic has been silent about election fraudWhen the stink of slavery choked England and America, Christian leaders and laypeople spoke out, and slavery was ultimately abolished in England and America. When the horrors of Nazi socialism became evident in the 20th century, Christians...
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August 2, 2021
The 'Greatest Generation' was special, but was it truly the greatest?Just in time for Christmas of 1998, Tom Brokaw unleashed one of the most seductive books ever written. In his book, The Greatest Generation, he declared that the men and women who fought for the Allies against the Axis nations were ...
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July 17, 2021
Usurpations and the winners who write historyEngland, America's political ancestor, occasionally had a usurper problem. At the end of the 14th century, Henry Bolingbroke had reason to be angry with King Richard II of England, who had exiled him and seized his lands. In...
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July 15, 2021
A win-win exchange and prodigal AmericansOver the past weekend, we saw Cubans protesting Communism and calling for "libertad" in Havana. As I recall similar protests in Hong Kong and Beijing, the answer seems obvious to me. Let's offer a swap. ...
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June 10, 2021
The dangers of digital doggy doorsHow did the public-school vice principal gain illegal access to Ferris Bueller's home? He used the doggy door in the back. I recall this funny scene from American cinema to alert my fellow Americans to the dangers of doggy d...
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May 25, 2021
Dismantling the big stick of political correctnessThe first time I noticed the modern scourge of self-censorship was in one of the Speech and Debate classes I taught in a public high school. The topics available to my students had to be timely, debatable, controversial, and researchable....
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May 19, 2021
What's left to celebrate this Fourth of July?The Fourth of July is near, but is there anything left to celebrate? Last month, I took down the American flag that I have been flying since 2000 in the front corner of my yard. I did so because I am convinced that the vast left...
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May 1, 2021
If you see something, say something!I was driving home from a haircut on the last day of April 2021, when an announcer on the radio in a government public service announcement said, "If you see something, say something!" That tagline followed a radio skit in which a guy no...
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April 13, 2021
I am a '2020 Doubter'In the 18th Century, George Berkeley asked, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" In 2021, I ask, "What if widespread treason happened in Washington in 2020 and the media refused to rep...
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April 9, 2021
Father of anti-AmericaIf George Washington is the Father of our country, then Ted Kennedy is the father of anti-America. What is anti-America? It is a deep-seated disdain for the America most of us love. Anti-America hates our history, our culture, and our success. Hatred...
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March 30, 2021
Diminishing returns on dissing diminished JoeHave I made fun of Joe Biden and his age-related decline? Yes, I have! Will I be tempted to mock him in the future? Probably, but I have come to the strategic conclusion that mocking him for his age and possible age-r...
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March 17, 2021
Reparations incognitoIf someone were to ask me what the United States of America's greatest mistake was, I would answer without hesitation: slavery. The legacy of slavery is a cloud that hangs over our nation much like clouds of genocide that hang over Chi...
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March 15, 2021
For elections, we need to think outside our bordersJoe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer refuse to listen to the cries of millions of Americans who believe that the 2020 presidential election yielded a dubious outcome. All they seem to care about is winning, while many in this country...
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March 10, 2021
Times of testing for the 'Fear God' crowdAs I mentally walk among the ruins of post-2020 America and try to account for the downfall of our republic, it seems to me that what's left of America falls into two groups: the Fear God group and the No Fear group. The No Fear group ...
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March 5, 2021
Strange bedfellows cause DC nightmareMy nightmare starts, I think, in 2019, at a dinner party in D.C., where prominent members of the Swamp have gathered to socialize and scheme including Obama, the Clintons, McConnell and other Never Trumpers, Pelosi, and Schumer. The mood is festive a...
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February 26, 2021
There's something happening here"There's something happening here; what it is ain't exactly clear," warned a rock band called Buffalo Springfield in 1967 in a song called "For What It's Worth." The song had a hypnotic and ominous melo...
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February 5, 2021
Censoring to get to the truthSomeone once said, "The nice thing about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said." I mention that quote because the definition of truth is getting a lot of attention recently. Yesterday, ...
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January 23, 2021
Educrats say the darndest thingsWhen I was much younger, there used to be a TV variety show called The Art Linkletter Show. At the end of the show, Art would gather young children around him and ask them loaded questions. This segment was called "Kid...
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January 15, 2021
Partial truth ain't truthThe New York Times still boasts that it holds "all the news that's fit to print." That implies that it holds "all the truth," too. But in today's journalism world, you're as likely to fi...
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January 14, 2021
Why are Christians loyal to Trump?A Christian friend of mine recently received a question from one of his Democrat friends. "Why," asked the friend, "are Christians so loyal to Trump?" My friend asked me to pen an answer. I can tell you why I supp...
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January 13, 2021
The Lincoln (in name only) ProjectThere is a group of malcontent Republicans who have the chutzpah to call themselves the Lincoln Project. Since Lincoln is the hero of the Republican Party, they think they can cleverly claim some of his glory by using his name. ...