August 21, 2017

Reading Maureen Dowd

If we read Maureen Dowd, we learn how, years ago, her dad, a tough Irish cop, gun on hip, faced down the KKK in her Maryland hometown when she was a child.  It's a good hook to swing a story from, and hey, it might even be true. She ...

August 18, 2017

This Is Really Rich

I was born and raised in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 1940s and 50s. Still a wonderful neighborhood defined by parks and lovely prewar buildings despite being blighted in the 60s by the towers of the gigantic Verrazano Narrows Bridge looming over it (s...

August 11, 2017

I haven't read James Damore's manifesto...

I haven't read James Damore's manifesto.  I don't have to.  Because I don't have to be convinced that liberals are certified schizophrenics. On the one hand, they insist that whatever a man can do, a woman can as well....

July 19, 2017

Can we stop with the 'nation of immigrants' mantra?

I have a strong stomach, but if I hear one more Democrat justify the  government's importation of Syrian, Roma, Somalian, Afghan, and Libyan peoples, and their grandmothers, by mindlessly chanting that we're a "nation of immigrants,...

June 30, 2017

A strangled chihuahua, a possessed rabbit, and the media

The arrest this week of 61-year-old Alice Evans of Marathon, Florida for killing her 12-year-old Chihuahua might go some way to explain the media's blind animosity toward President Trump. The dog, Big John Evans, had bitten her, the third...

June 14, 2017

Diversity Is Bunk

I attended one of the premier educational institutions in the United States in the nineteen fifties: P.S. 104 on the corner of 95th Street and Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It’s still there. But as Dr. Thomas Sowell said about one he att...

June 5, 2017

Surf's up

For the globalist left-elite, President Trump backing away from the Paris Climate Accord can only be compared to pulling the plug on the great atmosphere machine created by the mysterious Orovars on Edgar Rice Burroughs's fictional planet Barsoom...

May 31, 2017

The Coming of The Hatespeakers

Several dozen students from a Middle School in New Jersey refused to pose with Speaker Paul Ryan in a photo op at the Capital. Later they bombarded his Instagram account saying they hate him for opposition to LGBTQ rights, because he’s sha...

May 20, 2017

Coming to terms with the creeps in the media

The animus of the Democrats, the MSM, and academia toward president Trump has gone from vicious to insane to just plain creepy.  For example, Fox host Tucker Carlson faced off the other night against former Democrat congressional candidate, MSNB...

May 3, 2017

Time to ban Pit Bulls in the USA

A short time ago, a well-meaning but foolish young couple in my town adopted a "rescue" dog from New Jersey.  It was a heavy (60-80 lbs) two-year-old Pit Bull.  Scary, but they had attended several training sessions learning how t...

April 23, 2017

The cultural appropriation bullies

I tired of the left telling me what words I have to use or what bathroom my granddaughter must be in, I’m tired of being told what area of the country to live in in order to be thought capable of reading and thinking, what TV shows I can watch,...

April 20, 2017

What do we do now at 8:00 PM?

O'Reilly's gone, and it's going to leave a hole.  My wife and I didn't watch him every night, but we did quite a few.  We often we laughed at his pomposity; he wound up in a village in Central America where people were shoot...

April 2, 2017

Tired of politics?

Need a break from politics?  From the daily drumbeat of vituperation and lies?  More importantly do your kids need a break from listening to you and your spouse grousing about sub-committee hearings, thugs breaking up talks on college campu...

March 24, 2017

In the fields and in the streets

3 Killed, 20 Injured. Terrorist Shot Dead. But UK Is Defiant. That was the headline in the U.K. Sun this morning.  Defiant?  The definition of defiant is "boldly resistant or challenging" (dictionary.com).  Think of Britai...

March 21, 2017

Shrugging Off the Liberal 'Resistance'

American tourists in foreign countries once had the reputation of believing that if they shouted loud enough the dumb foreigner standing there with a puzzled look on his face would somehow understand what they were saying.  A stereotype that Lib...

March 20, 2017

Jimmy Breslin has died

Jimmy Breslin, the common man's incomparable chronicler, has died of complications from pneumonia.  He was eighty-eight, and for forty years, I believe, he wrote for four different New York City dailies about cops and street vendors, workers...

March 18, 2017

Trump And The Sittaford Mystery

What’s his plan? The headline on Drudge is: Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. The budget proposes many other cuts in discretionary spending as well – see Ed Straker here -- but ...

February 25, 2017

No more 'Nazi,' please

As many of us are all too aware, a young female member of the Revolutionary Communist Party named Sunsara Taylor faced off with Tucker Carlson the other night over the question of whether or not the president of the United States is a Nazi, a Fascist...

February 13, 2017

The Democrat frontrunners

Somehow, the United States has to learn to relax.  We just finished the long and jangling roller coaster ride of the 2016 presidential election, and the media are already fulminating about the 2020 matchup with Trump. With nothing better to d...

February 10, 2017

Happily armed in retirement

  Well up on the liberal "progressive" agenda for the U.S. is the legalization of assisted suicide.  Of course, the problem is that that Christianity and Judaism have always held it to be a sin because it's only one short u...

February 8, 2017

The edge of the precipice

American Thinker pieces by Michael Filozof ("The United States Cannot Survive as Presently Constituted"), Ed Straker ("Trump should disregard clearly unconstitutional court orders"), Selwyn Duke ("Trump could just i...

February 1, 2017

The Liberals' Great Nonwhite Hope

After eight years of a permanently aggrieved minority president in the White House, liberals were convinced they getting another pony for Christmas. But November 8th arrived and the bottom fell out of the tub. No pony. The only transition Hillary Rod...

January 22, 2017

The 'ladies' of the Women's March: Not powerful, not tough

We last saw these women – liberal, largely white, and middle- or upper-middle-class – sobbing their eyes out in the early morning hours of November 9.  Now here they are again in the streets of D.C., channeling Lena Dunham – no...

January 19, 2017

Look at these mugs!

Look at these mugs in a photo stolen from Drudge.  Every one with a face on like a seven-year-old whose pet rabbit died. Only twenty-four hours left in which to tell us how many gallons of water per minute the shower in our bathroom at home c...

January 17, 2017

Can’t you hear the nation laughing?

A piece titled “Americans Will Get The Trump They Elected As President” by Julie Pace, White House correspondent for the Associated Press, continues the same meme that had Hillary Clinton burying Trump in the run-up to November 8. Here...

January 11, 2017

A liberal fantasy

I occasionally watch The Five on Fox.  Recently, the discussion concerned Trump’s effort to return manufacturing jobs to the United States, and Dana Perino opined that perhaps what is needed is a federal job training program for workers. ...

January 4, 2017

The Wilding of America

The Daily Mail quotes Prince William: “…this is a turning point in saving elephants from extinction,” as he salutes China's decision to shut down its ivory trade by the end of this year. Bravo. Best Wishes. Bull Flop. ...

December 21, 2016

Christmas again in America

Perhaps, in this holiday season, the nation can reflect upon lessons learned and resolve never again to elect a community organizer to high office.  God knows there wasn't any excuse the first time round, let alone the second. I believe t...

December 19, 2016

Help Us with Public Education, Donald

I have one great hope for a no-nonsense, business-oriented Donald Trump administration. It's that the Federal Government finally begin to ask what the return was, and is, for money spent – just as every private enterprise, from the windo...

December 12, 2016

A Pox on Diversity

Lloyd Marcus, in his wonderful piece "The Myth of Racist America" in American Thinker, describes how "[b]lack seniors are prone to experiencing "racism paranoia."   The issue is parodied in the Seinfeld episode when U...

December 6, 2016

California dreaming

It’s politically incorrect to call a fireman a fireman.  Because the liberal party line goes (come on, let’s all pretend together) that women can do any job as well as men.  Well, they can’t.  At least not when it com...

November 27, 2016

If you think our trouble ended on November 8, think again

Prior to November 8, no liberal ever imagined they'd be humiliated by Donald Trump the way they were.  Not in a million years.  The idea that the smartest woman in the world could actually be forced by some beefy real estate tycoon into...

November 13, 2016

Bullet Points About After The Election

The staging never stops.  Touching photo of Hillary accidentally bumping into a mother and child on a hiking trail in New York.  Only it turns out the young mother is the daughter of a major Hillary contributor.  Then touching p...

November 8, 2016

The blessed ignorant

The Cubs win the World Series.  Those lucky enough to be at the seventh game knew immediately.  Those who weren’t, but stay plugged in to the national news, knew by that evening.  Those who only occasionally pay attention wouldn...

October 31, 2016

FBI relations with the NYPD have a storied history

The FBI criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton is back on.  But we may know that it is only because the NYPD was involved (somehow) with the FBI in retrieving the emails from Anthony Weiner’s and Huma Abedin’s computer.  Whic...

October 29, 2016

Hillary the Dream-Killer

I don’t read California papers or plug into any West Coast news sites.  Instead I’m usually found three thousand miles further east hunkered down under a four hundred year old Black Walnut drinking ice cold spring water and some very...

October 24, 2016

It’s the turnout, maybe

In appraising the presidential polling data, let’s remember that in another throw-the-bums-out year – the famous race between the Democrat liberal Mario Cuomo and the Republican George Pataki for governor of New York – all the polls...

October 21, 2016

What Tough Guys Do

My American brow rose when I came across a piece in the Telegraph online recently entitled “Fabulous, Fun Ideas to Get Your Grandchildren In The Garden”. It was by a Brit named Adam Lee-Potter. Adam? What kind of a man would publish an ar...

October 15, 2016

Nothing Touches the Tired Spot

As the Civil War seesawed and the Union scored one of its rare early successes, a man met a somber-looking Lincoln at the White House.  Trying to cheer the president up, he suggested that the president should be pleased by the latest news from t...

October 6, 2016

The marking of Kaine

On his and Pences's debate night, it was disgusting to hear Tim Kaine bleat about Hillary's "leadership" by grabbing the tail of Obama's 2012 election boast that he killed Osama bin Laden.  Hillary, Kaine insists, was part ...

October 4, 2016

What’s Scary, Scarier, and Scariest about Hillary

It’s not good to get into personal appearances especially when, like me, you live in a glass house.  But I believe what Brit Hume was hinting at in regard to Hillary’s appearance the other night was that she was so made up and rigidl...

October 1, 2016

Make Life Simple Again

My wife and I recently decided to resurrect the VCR so that we could enjoy the hundreds of videotapes we’d collected before DVDs came along. Towards that end I ordered a seven-dollar set of cables on-line.  I received a confirmation via...

September 22, 2016

Yes, Obama is an intellectual

Like one of those smoldering Pennsylvania coal mine fires far underground that can’t be extinguished, the argument among conservatives about whether or not Obama is an intellectual keeps smoking up my rabbit hole.  And with only a few mont...

September 17, 2016

The power of name recognition

We hear a lot about creepy clowns standing by the side of the road and gesturing youngsters into the woods this autumn – but among that group it’s only Hillary Clinton who presents any real danger to our children and grandchildren.  ...

September 5, 2016

How Donald Trump Fixes Chicago

Donald Trump's pitch to the black community of "What do you have to lose?" is not doing much.  Because they do have something to lose. Or at least they believe they do. If unemployment in some black community is 20%, they cou...

August 30, 2016

The racial grievance left’s crazy train picking up speed

A woman by the name of Nina Revoyr had an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday entitled “What’s missing when you hike the California backcountry? People of color.”  Here,  But it’s better entitled ...

August 9, 2016

Obama the Frightened Child

As a youngster at bedtime, I remember being immensely entertained, and more than a little frightened, listening to the opening lines of Kipling's "A Smuggler's Song": If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don...

July 29, 2016

The wench has a stench

Watching the Democrats’ convention lionize Hillary Clinton gave me some sense of the way Moses must have cringed when he looked from Mount Sinai and saw his relatives and friends dancing around the image of a golden calf. I’m a lifelon...

July 12, 2016

What’s a Reasonable Number of Blacks to Shoot?

Barack Obama’s position on police shootings seems to be that more blacks get shot by police than their percentage of the population tells us is reasonable. In other words, about 45 a year is okay, any more is racist. Where the idea of a quot...

June 24, 2016

Tombstones and a footrace

Breitbart reports that the polls are essentially tied between Trump and Clinton in the swing states, which usually decide a presidential election.  Here’s an excerpt from Mike Flynn’s recent piece: Given the constant apocryphal ...

June 18, 2016

How bad can 'politically correct' get?

A man flicks a cigarette butt off a P&O cruise ship and is thrown off the ship, leaving his wife to travel onward alone, sobbing in her room.  Huh? The first time I crossed the Pacific (23 days to Okinawa) was on Naval MSTS with 3,00...

June 13, 2016

The Real Popular Culture: An Opening For Donald Trump?

A short time ago, I had a piece in American Thinker explaining why, once it became known what a fiction the story by Alex Haley was, I couldn't be made to watch Roots II.  Apparently I wasn't alone in feeling this way.  The expensiv...

June 2, 2016

No, I’m not going to watch Roots again

The original series Roots was a phenomenon.  With maybe more viewers as a percentage of population than any TV event in history.  When it aired some forty years ago, I and everybody I knew had their eyes glued to the screen.  The vario...

May 24, 2016

The Great Critical Thinking Dodge

On an open house day at a private school in the area I once heard a teacher describe the course she taught as "Math With Numbers". Huh? It would have been a couple of minutes of real fun getting her to explain how you could do math without ...

May 19, 2016

What the restroom war is really about

One of the rare defeats progressives have suffered in the last couple of generations occurred in the 1970s, when the states refused to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, due in some large measure to the belief that the ERA would abolish separate male...

May 9, 2016

Trees are racist (but don’t worry; the Wood Man is on the job)

Hoping to give my wife and me and our golden retriever Sparky a better view of the mountains, I hired Don The Wood Man to widen the meadow in back of our house.  Trees started coming down, brush got pushed to the side, and logs were stacked t...

May 7, 2016

The Castle and the Pool (and the American Imagination)

America took a lot of imagination.  The idea that you could make a better home on a wilderness shore two thousand miles off across at tempest tossed ocean absent privilege and long established customs must have been bizarre.   Or for t...

May 1, 2016

If I Were Running For Congress

Watching a campaign ad on TV for a Republican candidate for Congress in a district close to mine I think: “what sort of idiots does he take us for?”  Because the ad has the 1994 and 2010 themes - I’m one of you, a responsibl...

April 21, 2016

Why do liberals want the Bible out of public libraries?

James LaRue, who directs the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (an especially moronic oxymoron if there ever was one), has recently listed The Bible as a “challenged” book – which should cause us t...

April 16, 2016

The Don of A New Golden Age

Donald Trump’s speech before the Republican Gala on Thursday went off in another direction.  Trump spent most of his time talking about something his opponents cannot. How he solved big business problems by talking to the right guy and ...

April 15, 2016

Time for conservatives to stop griping about the liberal university system

Conservatives really must stop griping about liberal bias on the college campus.  It's like complaining about a lizard's scaly skin.  No matter how many emoluments you rub it down with or how many cucumber slices you plaster on, it...

April 6, 2016

Hillary is channeling Roger B. Taney

I don’t believe anybody has commented on the fact that Hillary Clinton’s confirmation of the liberal belief that an “unborn person doesn't have constitutional rights” eerily resembles U.S. Supreme Court chief justice Roger...

March 2, 2016

Trump and the holy Roman emperor Frederick II

The Republican establishment, which includes people like Rich Lowry of National Review and Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal, really, really don’t like Trump. It’s a matter of chivalry.  Consider the analogy to the way Eu...

February 14, 2016

Is John Kasich Right?

Maybe John Kasich is right when he jokes that he's running in the wrong primary. Hillary Clinton's candidacy is beached, and it's anybody's guess whether another fifty million dollars, another hundred celebrity endorsements, or hun...

February 11, 2016

Unasked questions about the New Hampshire primary

How many of the votes for Sanders were really anti-Hillary votes and so would have automatically gone to somebody else anyway? The negative feelings that people - a lot of people - have towards Hillary run the gamut from out and out foaming...

January 22, 2016

A plea to conservative voices

There seems to be a certain weariness in the formerly mainstream media when it comes to reporting on the Trump campaign.  He's had them so many times they're behaving like those trout in popular catch-'n'-release western streams ...

January 16, 2016

Teddy Bear Therapy Versus the Mental Health Professionals

It’s been a number of years since I wrote a book about a severely emotionally disturbed foster child we accepted into our large family.  And despite the fact that I didn’t tout mental health programs or therapies, I still get the occ...

January 7, 2016

Could Obama be planning a huge surprise for the 2016 election?

The U.K. Daily Mail reports that Joe DiGenova, a one-time federal prosecutor, told radio host Laura Ingraham Tuesday "that the FBI's still-pending investigation of Clinton's email server seems to have reached 'a critical mass....

January 3, 2016

Peggy Noonan and the left's prom dress

Ray Kroc, the man who built McDonald's, once said that if his competition was drowning, "he'd stick a hose in his mouth."  A very American attitude toward life and winning, which hasn't taken root in today's Republican ...

December 30, 2015

Conned and embarrassed

On Monday 12/28/2015, American Thinker ran a blog piece by me entitled "The Same Face."  An anti-abortion work which recounted my emotional response to seeing a picture of a baby who had survived an abortion and would now be killed by ...

December 17, 2015

Dueling Immigration: American Settlers vs. Moslem Refugees

If you're like me, your early education encouraged certain assumptions about why European settlement triumphed north of the Rio Grande.  They go something like this: the Indians had no written or common language, while Europeans possessed bo...

December 9, 2015

The Lumberbumperer

A staffer recently told me that you don’t want to be in one of the Capitol building’s marble hallways if Loretta Lynch, aka “Mighty Mouse,” decides to stroll down the same space.  Because if you are, the attorney general...

September 19, 2015

How Many Refugees Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?

Almost every Western European leader today is standing up like a little boy in his second-story bedroom window with his Superman cape on.  About to find out if he can fly. That is to say, about to find out if the idea of welcoming millions of...

July 26, 2015

Is the Battle Flag More Fun?

Why is the left is so intent upon removing the Confederate battle flag from public display?  After all, everybody knows that outside a handful of skinheads, people don’t display the Confederate battle flag in order to celebrate America...

July 9, 2015

Lots of luck explaining the Supreme Court to a child

There used to be a simple analogy that could answer almost any question a young child might have about the U.S. Supreme Court.  Since most of America’s children were farm-raised, you could tell them that just like the chore of candling egg...

June 24, 2015

Newspaper does pretzel twist to support global warming

Under the category “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up,” The Independent reports today that a study which shows a fall in sun spot activity over the past few years closely mirrors what happened in the sixteen hundreds when less heat reach...

June 9, 2015

Trying To Gauge the Anger Of The People

My earlier piece in American Thinker was criticized on a number of different levels.  For suggesting that in By The People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission, Charles Murray may have written the wrong book. For using the analogy of running a...

June 5, 2015

Did Charles Murray Write the Wrong Book?

Charles Murray, a man I admire immensely, has a new book entitled By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission.  Before you’re two sentences in, there’s the pithy reflection that “we are at the end of the American proje...

May 3, 2015

Community Investment? Oh, Please

In the face of the Baltimore riots, President Obama is reportedly resigned that nothing much can be done to prevent similar events in the future because of Republican opposition to any greater “investment” by the federal government in mai...

March 28, 2015

We Still Have Paris

You won’t hear the song about the decline of the nation’s power and influence overseas along American rivers out on its farms or in its factories, nor in its offices and homes, but only among the self-obsessed chattering class in Man...

October 4, 2014

Grandparents, Liberal Children, and the Grandkids

I once wanted no part of grandchildren.  Indeed when my daughter and son-in-law announced that our first grandchild was in the works I toppled into despair.  Did I look like I was old enough to be a grandfather?  My hair was still red,...

September 27, 2014

What A High School Coed Can Teach Us About Getting In A Liberal College Professor's Face

The recent student demonstrations in Colorado against curriculum changes that present a more positive view of America don’t bother me at all.  Dollars to donuts they were organized by the teachers.  Last year we had some Liberal prote...

September 22, 2014

Baboons, Government, and the War on Science

Looking ahead to the mid-terms and 2016, conservatives are not going to be able to resist the cliché that “government doesn’t do [something] very well.”  But a much better way to make the point with voters is to say that...

August 28, 2014

Summoning the Mockingbird Mob

Years ago, I was a small-town cop, working a steady twelve to eight in the morning and spending most of my patrol engaged with my Main Street’s eleven bars.  Combative drunks, runaways hitchhikers out on the State Route who’d duck in...

April 15, 2014

Megyn Kelly and the Sandberg Head Shaker

Megyn Kelly’s "Kelly File" is a great news show.  She’s incisive, informed and customarily handles the toughest guest with  aplomb.  But her lengthy interview of Facebook C.O.O. Sheryl Sandberg about her second bo...

March 15, 2014

What Did W.E.B Griffin Know And When Did He Know It?

In the fallout from the hijacking of Malaysia Flight 307 there nothing being said about the uncanny resemblance the affairs bears to the plot of W.E.B Griffin’s Presidential Agent series blockbuster By Order Of The President.   In thi...

March 14, 2014

What Libraries Can Teach Governors About How To Purge Ineligible Voters

As a former local Police Chief allow me to let everybody in on a secret.  The governor of Florida or any other state where ineligibles litter the voting rolls can purge most of them a couple of weeks before the next election with a press release...

March 9, 2014

CMT vs BET?

McDaniel College in Westminster Maryland finds itself at the center of a controversy after it was revealed that a fraternity and sorority jointly sponsored a party themed CMT (Country Music Television) vs BET (Black Entertainment Television).  P...

January 2, 2014

News for Democrats: Profits Push Costs Down

Harry Reid's renowned for shooting his mouth off with his brain only half-loaded.  But we don't need his occasional lapse one way or another for us to know that for him, ObamaCare is only a "stepping stone," or a "work ... passed," on the n...

August 31, 2013

Bring On the Elephants

Mark Levin has made the case for a constitutional convention called by the states in order to consider certain very carefully drawn amendments -- The Liberty Amendments. Every one of my stars aligns but one -- that is the "ministerial" role of the ex...

August 7, 2013

What Does It Take To Produce An Exceptional Child?

A wag might remark that it's not all that difficult - just take a gander at the competition.  A statistician argues that parents as a whole can't control for the result.  A public school educator demands parents not try because "ability sta...

July 28, 2013

Is ObamaCare Destined to Become a Parking Lot?

Once upon a time, some of us counted heads and concluded that there was little chance of ObamaCare ever becoming law -- or, if through some mischance it did, ever staying law.  But now after the passage of a number of years and any amount of pub...

May 7, 2013

Shutting up the FBI

The FBI's public posturing in the matter of the Boston Bombing is like watching the hundredth rerun of a bad movie. "Stand between the FBI and a press conference" the old saying goes, and you'll "get run over like leaf debris." But what's most alarmi...

April 13, 2013

Working Up to Auschwitz

A demon has been revealed in twenty-first-century Philadelphia, and the three broadcast networks have been enforcing a policy of silence about the discovery.  So have most major newspapers. One reason may be that the trial of late-term abortio...

December 19, 2012

Lindisfarne To Sandy Hook: The Tragedy of Wishful Thinking

I pull up in front of our town's little savings bank branch, drop out of the door and when my boots hit the pavement reach under my shirt and the remove the Smith & Wesson Model 28 .357 which I then put under the seat before locking the truck....

October 31, 2012

No Men in The White House

Between e-mail revelations and whistle-blower testimony, the Band-Aid is very painfully being pulled off the Obama administration's Benghazi disaster.  And as in any management failure, we have two ways to look at the issue -- long-term and shor...

August 8, 2012

Mitt's Lesson on Discretion

(See also: "Demonizing Romney") Mitt Romney has impressed on two intimately related issues recently: his willingness to compare Jews and Palestinians in order to admit the role of culture in determining economic and success, and his reiterated determ...

June 29, 2012

Poets on the Bench

It's been said that history doesn't repeat itself but that it often rhymes.  The Supreme Court, principally Justice Roberts, by finding that the people of the United States have no property rights the government needs respect, rhymes with Chief ...

May 23, 2012

Education Decline, One Step at a Time

Some time ago, I joined the National Council for the Social Studies, the NCSS.  I've since had that membership canceled -- I suspect because they read some of my pieces and realize I'm neither a social studies teacher nor a groupie.  Howeve...

February 29, 2012

Did Gingrich Just Win In Michigan?

Ever since Newt Gingrich's loss in Florida's Republican primary I've been trying to read that gotcha-just-where-I-want-you smile of his.  What's his plan for winning the nomination?  No matter how bleak his prospects appear, he does have a ...

February 21, 2012

The Problem With Intellectuals

Isn't it long past time that conservatives take a pitchfork in one hand and a flaming torch in the other, and then, after mustering up the like-minded, simply burn Frankenstein's castle down?  Especially since as far back as 1942 George Orwell p...

December 26, 2011

A World without Schoolteachers

The Kindle and Nook may make for not only the most important advance in reading since Gutenberg, but also, quite likely, a major lesson in unintended consequences.  Especially for the educational establishment, because for the first time in hist...

October 21, 2011

Who Will Save New York? Herman Cain?

I've just had my fourth grown son move his employment or business from New York State to Virginia.  A fifth had already moved to Colorado.  A daughter and three grandchildren are still here both working and living.  For how long I don'...

August 21, 2011

Retaking the Culture: Finding The Right Stories

See also: Time For Once Upon A Time In America At first glance it's not all that easy for Conservatives to recognize the stories they should be telling themselves, others, and their children, because Left-Wing Liberal fairy-tales clutter up the Ameri...

July 17, 2011

Time For Once Upon A Time In America

For many years now America has been profoundly altering its culture, reordering its economy, and shedding individual liberties in response to inventive short stories told by liberal left-wing theorists.  Yet, whenever one of these stories turns ...

March 18, 2011

Fukushima And The Truth?

My wife and I have vacationed on Waikiki in Hawaii several times and always stayed at the same hotel.  Country folk ourselves, we enjoyed starting each day with an early morning hike up into the bustle of the main boulevard and on the way would ...