December 15, 2024

Post-election anguish

More than a month after the 2024 national elections, the lamentations from many who voted for the losing side continue unabated.  For some reason, I cannot dance to their tears.  I see a mirror.  Ironically, some of thei...

November 15, 2024

The ‘Hitler’ dilemma

I have been perusing some videos and commentaries posted by some people who vehemently disapprove of the second election of Donald Trump to the presidency.  Some of these are from longtime online acquaintances — people whom I like and...

September 3, 2024

The folly of limited warfare

It would be foolish to allow a minor fistfight, over some small matter, to erupt into gunfire.  However, when one nation attacks another with deadly effect, it is foolish to respond “proportionately.”  The would-be agg...

August 30, 2024

What if they held an election and too many people voted?

When even Mark Zuckerberg admits that he yielded to federal pressure, to help skew the 2020 election results, then it becomes reasonable to expect that the coming election will be corrupted by the left.  The fact is that there are a...

August 27, 2024

Why the government will never manage the economy

In 1973, as a young airman first class, United States Air Force, I was assigned to Yokota Airbase in Japan.  It was winter.  I had my wife and child with me.  Skipping over some details, we were assigned to a special gov...

August 17, 2024

Secret Service agent abandoned her post to breastfeed

According to a news report, a Secret Service agent, assigned to protect President Trump, abandoned her post to breastfeed her infant.  Okay, enough with the jokes.  This is some kind of anti-feminist fabrication, or some fals...

July 13, 2024

4 factions vying for control of America

The Democrat party has three main factions vying for control.  One of them is the Biden family.  Another consists of so-called down-ballot Democrat office-holders.  The third one is composed of the intelligence agency he...

July 11, 2024

Nothing matters (in elections) more than election integrity

With all the questions and issues surrounding the upcoming 2024 election, the elephant in the room is the overwhelming possibility of election fraud.  Nothing else matters more. Somehow, it has become unfashionable to mention that beast....

June 7, 2024

Sports should not be about theater

Throughout my seventy-six years’ (and counting) tenure in this life, sports have always occupied a major part of my attention, even though I have more in common with the late Howard Cosell, of “I Never Played the Game,” fame, t...

June 4, 2024

The dangers of arguing with a leftist

The rich are not like the rest of us.  Whether that adage is true or not, it is becoming increasingly clear that leftists do not think as we do.  They are not like the rest of us. I am reminded of the very nice lady who brought...

June 1, 2024

Should the U.S. and Europe go their separate ways?

Since at least as far back as 1917, when the U.S. unwisely intervened in World War I to rescue the Western Allies, the major European nations have grown accustomed to American largesse.  Americans have played the role of overindulgent paren...

May 8, 2024

Society’s Gordian Knots

When Alexander the Great invaded Phrygia, in 334 BC, he is said to have encountered the legendary Gordian Knot.  It was a tightly knit tangle of rope, so convoluted that none could untie it.  The legend has it that whoever could u...

May 5, 2024

I am an expert on experts!

I have long wondered how certain people are referred to by the title of “expert.”  While some people are true experts, the title is oftentimes misappropriated to people who have no expertise in anything. For example, on the p...

May 3, 2024

What is Islamophobia, exactly?

Islamophobia is a technical word, the meaning of which is of little practical value.  The more colloquial meaning, however, has great impact.  It applies to people who see in Islam a threat. Juan Williams, a well known liberal ...

April 30, 2024

Paranormal science: Is it time?

Among the critical factors that caused science to revolutionize human technology are repeatable experiments.  The process of observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and duplication by indifferent skeptics is what makes modern civilization...

April 22, 2024

The losers will lose everything

Any political prediction for the remainder of 2024 must, to be taken seriously, account for one overbearing fact:  neither side can afford to lose.  For one side or the other, it will be game over.  Political power will thereafter...

March 29, 2024

Maybe the official UFO-watchers can do better

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, according to the adage.  AARO (the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) seems a little bit unclear on that.  The recent statement of the official government “UFO Hunters,”...

March 23, 2024

Leading the children astray

Today I received the following in my email: Dear Friend of Scientific American, Many parents of children who are LGBTQ are desperately trying to protect their kids from discrimination and moral panics, and provide them with pro...

March 22, 2024

About those innocent Palestinian civilians...

Among the heart-breaking scenes from the Middle-East are video reports showing civilian casualties of the current war.  In the West, we cringe at those images, especially the ones showing small children — dead, grievously wounded, or ...

March 13, 2024

Maybe they really are Nazis after all...

In the 1930s, when Hitler was rising to power, there were some Germans who correctly foresaw that the end result would be catastrophe for Europe and for the German people, as well as for Jews and others.  They attempted to persuade their fe...

March 7, 2024

Secret clauses in the Constitution!

You probably did not know that the Constitution contains a “Good and Plenty” clause.  Well, according to the late Representative John Conyers (D-Mich.), it is one of several clauses in the document that permits the fed...

March 5, 2024

Asking that same old disturbing question again...

A Muslim police lady in Pakistan was praised for courageously rescuing a Muslim woman from a murderous Muslim mob of attackers who mistakenly believed that she had defamed the Koran.  They would have killed her.  There w...

February 26, 2024

The unique spiritual tie binding America and Israel

The United States’s existence is predicated on the existence of God, the divine Creator who has endowed us with inalienable rights. While other nations may acknowledge the Creator, and some may even have official churches to worship Him, only o...

February 22, 2024

Are frozen embryos really people?

I have been pro-life ever since, in my childhood, I first heard of abortion.  Killing a developing baby in his mother’s womb is clearly an act of killing an innocent person.  It is one issue on which science and morality agr...

February 15, 2024

But you have to eat, don’t you?

One of the more memorable Sunday sermons I ever heard was from a Baptist preacher regarding one of his classmates in the seminary.  The lesson for the day concerned the End Times, the prophesied future time when, for seven years, the world ...

February 11, 2024

The worst ‘what if’

Imagine three highly improbable future events.  Consider also the physical evidence that they might occur. What if incontrovertible proof were to be presented that world food supplies are being systematically sabotaged in order to cre...

January 17, 2024

How long will the volcano stay dormant?

It already happened once.  What makes us think it will not again?  On April 29, 1992, the United States experienced a mini civil war in which more than sixty people were killed in armed conflict, and 2,300 were wounded.  L...

January 15, 2024

Secret UFO hearings held in Congress

Whatever the UFOs are -- or are not -- they continue to generate controversy. Congress held secret, closed-door hearings on January 12, 2024, about them. We are not being told much more than that.   I have gradually become a UFO skeptic, base...

January 5, 2024

Is an American dictatorship inevitable?

A YouTube video presents the story of the El Salvadoran dictatorship that has eradicated the criminal gangs, which, for decades, tormented families in that small nation.  A lawless nation has, for now, been tamed by a lawless governmen...

January 3, 2024

Sinking the Navy without a shot

The U.S. Navy built its reputation on canvas sails, not satin. Matt Walsh has produced an excellent video on X (Twitter) reporting on a cross-dressing sailor, upon whom the U.S. Navy is now relying, at least in part, to bolster its anemi...

December 19, 2023

It’s the power, stupid

If a way were discovered to produce free material wealth, in unlimited supply, the initial result would likely be something that feels like utopia.  With all material needs satisfied, what need would there be for conflict, for competition, ...

December 6, 2023

Are there ten good men in Gaza?

The war between Israel and Hamas is reshaping the approach of civilized nations to war.  Hamas’s use of human shields has escalated from simply hiding behind a few women and children in a limited tactical encounter to hiding behind mi...

December 3, 2023

Once the mind is transfixed, it is hardened beyond repair

There is a little known, and less understood, mental affliction, which I will call transfixion. It is to the mind what setting is to concrete.  When freshly mixed with water, concrete is malleable.  Once it sets, however, it ...

November 29, 2023

A splendid little war?

One would think that the present war between Israel and Hamas would fit the same mold as WW2, albeit on a smaller scale.  Both are wars with moral clarity.  Both are wars of national survival against a pitiless aggressor. ...

November 19, 2023

Christianity is not a ‘nice’ religion

I heard a disturbing statistic today.  Roughly one third of Christian pastors — clergy of various faiths, I assume — have a Christian worldview.  Even one half would be shockingly low.  Listening to the sermons...

November 2, 2023

The grim (and unavoidable) reality of war

“Give peace a chance” may sound nice in a song, but it is not a viable policy in the real world.  Slavery is not peace.  Submission to evil is not peace.  Those two things are the result of appeasement. ...

October 30, 2023

The growing weirdness of the 'drag queen' phenomenon

Among the several sexual perversions enjoying increased social acceptance, the so-called “drag queen” phenomenon is arguably the most disturbing.  Its most pernicious feature is that it is not content to seek the right of men to...

October 15, 2023

Why no gay pride flags in Gaza?

As I watched the pro-terrorist demonstrations on news media, I could not help but notice the prominent absence of the otherwise ever-present gay pride flags, which are displayed at virtually every leftist rally. The reason is obvious: within Gaza,...

October 3, 2023

The vital question that physical science can never answer

What is the only observable physical phenomenon that science cannot explain?  It is perhaps the most important one of all. Let's use an analogy.  Suppose that the government were to commission a study about music. ...

October 1, 2023

I want to be among 'my people,' she said...until she was

In response to what he sees as intractable racial conflict, Scott Adams, author of the excellent comic strip "Dilbert," has been canceled for urging white people to move away from black people.  He says, perhaps despondently, ...

September 23, 2023

Is Kathy Hochul late to the game, or are we?

From a Newsmax article online: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters earlier this week that it was never "envisioned that this [immigration] would be an unlimited universal right or obligation on the city to have to house lite...

September 22, 2023

Is the vote sacred, or just a formality?

One major factor in holding the Republic together is the vote.  If one disagrees with government policies, one can hope to remove that government at the ballot box.  If one is disappointed with the outcome of an election, he can c...

September 20, 2023

Without core values and bedrock principles, we are doomed

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others." —Groucho Marx While funny, the joke (as so much humor does) points to a tragic reality.  A house built upon shifting sand cannot endure ...

September 3, 2023

Some flags are more equal than others

The brief video of a child brought before an informal hearing at the charter school Vanguard School, in Colorado, is not as outrageous as many controversial videos are.  There was no radical left-wing mob.  There was no viole...

August 26, 2023

Woke leftists object to Catholic school LGBT policy

Woke leftists are outraged that a Catholic school district has enacted policies contrary to the teachings of the Church of Wokeness. Catholic school officials have the unmitigated audacity, the gall, to insist that Catholic schools teach...

August 24, 2023

What did they expect?

A man who was allowed to compete in a women's weightlifting competition won decisively over the women.  What else was anyone expecting? For many months now, the transgender movement has defied biology, sociology, and logic,...

July 29, 2023

Truth, lies, and slavery

Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott, who is black, rebuked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for defending Florida’s curriculum regarding slavery.  That curriculum contains a line which offends those who have not read it in conte...

July 3, 2023

UFOs and the changing federal response

In the past ten years or so, the UFO phenomenon has moved out of the realm of science fiction.  News stories now involve government admissions of actual cases. As we evaluate those cases, we begin by making entirely plausible conclusions...

July 2, 2023

Our Deeply Flawed Heroes

We need heroes.  We need people to whom we can look up, as examples of, and exemplars for, the virtues of courage and devotion to duty.  So urgent is our need that we sometimes create unrealistic myths about them — for examp...

June 29, 2023

The hill we will die on

In the decades during which I have followed politics and social issues, I have seen passionate disagreements among Americans.  The Vietnam War was the focus of massive protests.  Legalized abortion, after Roe v. Wade, was followed...

June 22, 2023

Wokeism's Achilles heel

Perhaps you might remember the TV commercial for a home burglar alarm system.  Husband and wife are in bed when they hear someone breaking in downstairs.  The manly husband bravely picks up his gun and — wait — picks u...

June 17, 2023

Anti-constitutional military leadership is becoming more brazen

One of the chief characteristics of the stereotypical "banana republic" is that, whether or not it has bananas, it is not a republic, but rather a military dictatorship.  "El presidente" may speak Spanish, Russian, or Ko...

June 11, 2023

Is official UFO disinformation designed to trap us?

There are several anecdotes in UFO literature, dating back as far as the 1950s, which describe incidents in which reporters were told amazing stories of UFOs by government officials.  Whenever the reporter followed standard journalistic pro...

June 7, 2023

The next very, very important frontier for human rights

There are some people who have six fingers.  The condition is rare.  It is known as polydactyly, and the sixth finger is called a supernumerary.  The extra digit is usually considered a useless appendage and is sometimes...

June 5, 2023

Hand over your children, or else

In Virginia's House of Delegates, "Elizabeth Guzman [has] announced that she would introduce a bill that would hold parents criminally liable for refusing to treat their children as the opposite sex if they identify as such....

June 2, 2023

Govt UFO report seems to have learned from John Durham

One of the headlines at Space dot Com says, "UFOs will remain mysterious without better data, NASA study team says." Well, duh — what a disclosure.  Who would have thought that better data are needed? ...

May 24, 2023

It’s the economists, stupid

It is quite curious that so many expert economists have such strongly conflicting opinions.  That means that a great many of these experts are not only wrong, but considering that they influence vital policies, they are dangerously wrong. ...

May 22, 2023

The system failed, but which system?

There were four young people, archetypes but undoubtedly real.  As racial minorities, they were born into the wealthiest nation in the world and given every possible opportunity to succeed.  Two of them did: a young man and a youn...

May 14, 2023

When reality hits, it will hit hard

There is a phenomenon called "super-saturation."  It occurs when a liquid has been mixed with a solid substance (think hot water and sugar), not just to the point of saturation, but even beyond that.  It is where we are,...

May 12, 2023

What do reparations repair?

In 1619, when the first African slaves arrived in North America, and were classified under law as property devoid of human rights, a sequence of events was set in motion that include the Civil War of 1861–65 and its aftermath, such as Jim Crow ...

May 8, 2023

They also serve who stand their ground

The famous English poet John Milton once wrote, "They also serve, who only stand and wait."  The meaning is simple: there are important people who never get much attention, but who nevertheless perform vital, lifesaving services....

May 7, 2023

Follow the science — to where?

The dictum "follow the science" seems to make good sense until you actually follow it to a conclusion that is opposite to that which the "experts" intend you to reach.  We all saw that during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

May 4, 2023

Economics, politics, and war are all one thing

Economics has been called "the dismal science."  Anyone who has formally studied it understands why.  Therefore, I am going to address its exciting, thrilling, and fun aspects.  Just kidding. Economics is wh...

May 1, 2023

The truth about morality

According to the philosophy of physicalism, any purely scientific view of reality has no place for notions of good or evil, right or wrong, justice or injustice.  It is entirely neutral, neither preferring nor disdaining either side. It ass...

April 23, 2023

Artificial intelligence is no big deal — until it is

There is a lot of hype regarding artificial intelligence, known also as A.I.  That hype has been fed by old movies such as Colossus: The Forbin Project and by less fictional but still spectacular predictions of a technological sin...

April 16, 2023

You need not believe in Satan to believe in Satanism

The United States is, per the Supreme Court, a Christian nation, a fact by which even those among us who are not Christians are blessed with many benefits.  The positive influence of Jewish and Christian principles of governance is, by...

April 13, 2023

Is transgenderism destroying gays?

I have noticed recently that many homosexuals are openly opposing the transgender movement — the one that advocates the surgical mutilation of children who, however temporarily, express gender confusion.  Against such immense evil, we...

April 6, 2023

When leftists oppose transgenderism, conservatives should listen

When radical leftists oppose transgenderism, conservatives should listen — and learn. Jennifer Bilek is by no means a conservative.  Quite the opposite — she is a feminist leftist with whom I agree on as close to nothing as I...

April 4, 2023

Cascading mistakes are destroying our nation

I've made a lot of stupid mistakes during my seventy-five years, so maybe I have no right to speak, but I just can't help myself.  Some mistakes are beyond the pale — and they are numerous.  Some have implications fa...

March 25, 2023

The free will paradigm

I firmly believe that I have free will, but a recent post here on AT made what I consider a less than optimal case.  Most of the items mentioned in it can be explained away, even by me, in terms of a deterministic chain of events ...

March 19, 2023

Transgenderism and UFOs

There is already more than enough hyperbole surrounding the transgenderism controversy, so this commentary will focus less on the moral and political aspects of the emotional controversy, and more on the sedate and sober implications of sociology. ...

March 12, 2023

Physical science is in a crisis

It had to happen.  Sooner or later, as technology began to rapidly expand, scientists were bound to observe phenomena they could not explain — not now, perhaps not ever.   There are a number of examples of this. ...

February 18, 2023

Is the old America gone forever?

Mike Nowak's recent piece in American Thinker on the old Perry Mason TV show, although somewhat tongue in cheek, awakened in me some nostalgic memories.  As a teenager, I watched many of the episodes when they first ...

February 16, 2023

The DNA of Intelligent Design

Resistance — by scientists — to new scientifically demonstrated evidence becomes even more stubborn when their motivation is not science at all, but ideology.  Evidence is not proof, of course, but when a large body of evidence ...

February 13, 2023

Democrats will try everything except what works

New York State's housing crisis has gotten so bad that the Democrats in charge of this fiasco are willing to try anything to solve the problem — anything, in traditional leftist fashion, except the actual solution.  That "any...

January 31, 2023

The root of our problems as a nation

When a six-year-old brought a gun to school and shot his teacher, the first thought was that it was an accident.  When upon further review it was announced that it was intentional and deliberate, a sort of shock wave went through the popula...

January 28, 2023

China and the abusive husband syndrome in world politics

In too many cases, abused wives have discovered that obtaining a restraining order against their abusers has resulted in worsening the abuse, sometimes tragically.  The abusive husband, instead of being restrained, is sometimes enraged and ...

January 23, 2023

How the world works (for dummies)

Poverty in America is so bad that some people can barely afford their cell phones.  In much of the rest of the world, poor people starve to death, or die of what in America are ordinary, survivable diseases or injuries.   In Am...

January 22, 2023

Has artificial intelligence become dangerously woke?

The first time I ever played chess against a computer, I won.  It was a very simple computer, running a very simple program, but my paltry skills at chess had some difficulty in outwitting it.  In the end, however, I felt the same...

January 19, 2023

Accountability versus determinism

Imagine a world populated only by robots. Robots do not choose what they will or will not do.  They act only according to their computerized algorithm. Given the same initial conditions, everything that follows will be inevitable. Perhaps the si...

January 16, 2023

Democrat godfathers (and mothers?)

In the 1972 movie, The Godfather, the main character, Michael Corleone, subtly asserts that there is little substantive difference between the U.S. government and the Mafia.  He even hints that U.S. senators sometimes go so far as...

January 7, 2023

A paradigm shift in the sciences?

The founding document of our nation's independence relies for its authority on the existence of the Creator, who is the author of all our rights and duties. Of the other major document, the Constitution, John Adams stated that it "was made o...

December 29, 2022

They were punished for being right

Two men of note lost their jobs as military commanders after they correctly predicted that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor, which happened on that "day of infamy," December 7, 1941.   One of them was Army general Billy M...

December 18, 2022

The military duty to disobey

There is a well-known requirement in the United States armed forces that all who serve in it are required to obey the orders of their superior officers. This is only common sense. No military organization could long survive if those in it could choos...

December 17, 2022

The pope makes a dire prediction

Pope Francis is not alone in his recently publicized premonition that we are on the verge of, in his words, "even greater destruction and desolation than what we are currently experiencing."   History is, if not replete wi...

December 15, 2022

Spacing out: NASA shows leftist bias against Trump, Musk

Space dot com is a NASA website that reports on the latest news in such topics as astronomy, satellites, and space travel.  It has even reported on news of UFO/UAP phenomena.  Its articles and commentary are well written and ...

December 6, 2022

We are headed for a dark age in science

Science has had a long and difficult path to its success, and to its well deserved respect over its main competitors: superstition and falsehood.  Arguably, in 1945, that respect reached its zenith, with the detonation of the nuclear weapon...

November 26, 2022

Voting accountability is like cash flow reporting

One of the trolls I encounter online repeats the mantra that if we are to allege electoral fraud, the burden of proof is on the accuser.  No matter how strong the evidence, nor how much of it there is, the mantra remains the same. ...

November 18, 2022

It cannot happen here?

In the 1930s, good people in Russia, Germany, and Japan watched in horror and disbelief as each nation was led downward into the darkest recesses of depravity.  Each day, there were glimmers of hope that matters might be reversed, that the ...

November 11, 2022

Is the election system irretrievably broken?

We are at a crisis of confidence regarding elections.  Once that confidence is eroded, once the vote tallies can no longer be trusted, then what are we to do?   I won't pretend.  I was shocked by the reported elec...

October 21, 2022

America: They don't make it like they used to

When I was very young, in the 1950s, Thanksgiving dinner was always a pleasant and memorable affair.  The food was wonderfully good, and the visiting family members always lavished my mom with praise for her cooking.  We talked to...

October 6, 2022

Military recruitment decline portends catastrophe, in more than one way

Allow me to concisely interpret, for your convenience, a rather lengthy news item.  I may have editorialized just a bit to save space. As Army Officials Report Catastrophic Enlistment Numbers, a Scary Last Resort Just Became Reali...

October 4, 2022

It was all a dream, but then I woke up, and it's real

The year was 1912.  I was a passenger aboard RMS Titanic.  It had hit an iceberg and was sinking fast.  As I herded my family toward the lifeboats... Fast-forward 110 years.  I was suddenly (you know ho...

September 25, 2022

Socialist Utopia: A pleasant stop on the road to Dystopian Hell

While I strongly disagree with many of the expressed opinions of the famous author H.G. Wells, I must give credit where credit is due.  In particular, I refer to his science fiction novel The Time Machine, published in 1895. ...

September 19, 2022

The Time Machine just landed

According to H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, in the year 802,701, no one will have any inkling that you ever existed.  All historical memory will have been lost.  If you think that that is fiction, you are of course correc...

August 13, 2022

Abuse of the citizenry: Is it ending or expanding?

The year 1865 marked the end of slavery.  It was an inflection point in history.  Until 1800, institutional slavery had always been the norm, unquestioned for thousands of years.  Male and female, free and slave, these w...

August 5, 2022

If words matter, then why do top officials use them so poorly?

I confess that I make occasional grammatical errors, both when writing and when speaking.  In my defense, I have known many people, more intelligent than me, who do that.  Along with incorrect grammar, we all may use the wrong wor...

July 13, 2022

Sexual inequality is a permanent fact

Inequality is not the same as unfairness.  For example, small children are not the equals of adults.  There is no unfairness in that.  On the contrary, try to imagine the disaster that would ensue if three-year-old child...

July 11, 2022

How a pope civilized the West

It is a case in which mixed motives, some selfish, some noble, played a vital role in making the world a more civilized (or at least a less barbaric) place.  It happened around the year 1095.  Medieval Europe was in chaos. ...

July 7, 2022

Is this grim prophecy what America is in for?

It is a scenario all too familiar to historians.  A given society becomes chaotic.  Its economy impoverishes the ordinary citizen, stealing away hope.  Crime becomes rampant, instilling fear.  Corrupt governmen...

June 22, 2022

Were the elections rigged? It might not matter.

Elections will not legitimize any government if they are rigged.  We must end the absurdity whereby a private corporation can be hired to count our votes and then refuse to prove to us exactly how it got the final numbers.  If the...

June 4, 2022

The sacrifices of D-Day don't stop with the best known heroes

Soon it will be another June 6.  On that date, we will commemorate the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy, the landings that nearly ended in disaster for the Allies, but which, after horrendous cost in lives, crashed through the walls of Nazi ...

May 18, 2022

UFO hearings reveal a disturbing discrepancy

A peculiar moment occurred during the congressional hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs, AKA UFOs) Tuesday (May 17).  Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) asked a question about the 1967 Malmstrom Air Force Base incident and...

January 2, 2022

How socialism is like the Flat Earth Theory

Arguments for the Flat Earth Theory and socialist doctrine share many aspects in common.  At first glance, to a casual observer, the Earth really does seem flat, and for most practical purposes, that observation is sufficient to guide our a...

December 23, 2021

Space aliens could change our lives whether they're real or not

There are some vital implications of the UFO/UAP incidents, and also of the ongoing scientific Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), that already affect our lives.  Many consider these to be frivolous matters, of no importance t...

December 9, 2021

'When science mixes with politics, all we get is politics'

I just finished reading an article on the Big Think website titled "When science mixes with politics, all we get is politics," by Professor Marcelo Gleiser, theoretical physicist, Dartmouth College.  I mistakenly thought...

November 1, 2021

Transsexualism is a lost cause

It is said of frontiersman and explorer Daniel Boone that he denied ever having gotten lost, although he did concede that once, he had been “a might bewildered” for a few days. I know, men hate to admit being lost, but the fact is that...

October 30, 2021

I could never do such a terrible thing as that

No, not I. Whether in history or in current events, we often read of horrible crimes, committed by horrible people.  If it so happens, as too rarely it does, that the miscreant is caught, then we call for his punishment.  Let h...

October 28, 2021

We're at the fork in the leftist road, and it's a scary place

The position of the left is well known by now:  your speech is violence; their violence is speech.  Moreover, even your silence is violence.  If you disagree with them on any point, then you are not merely mistaken; you ...

October 13, 2021

Atheism, the Bible, and doubt

I am not an atheist, nor even an agnostic.  Keep that in mind, because I am not saying the Bible promotes atheism.  Quite the opposite, of course — but there is a passage in the Bible that helps us Jews and Christians to und...

October 4, 2021

More representation will shrink government, not grow it

It is counterintuitive, but the problem with big government is not its bigness in numbers of officials, but rather in its concentration of power in too few hands.  Diluting that power would work wonders for shrinking the real size of govern...

September 26, 2021

The last-ditch effort to restore America

All my life, I thought I was doing my part.  I read the news.  I made the effort to understand the issues.  I followed the debates.  Then, after exercising my best judgment, I voted for the candidates who most ...

September 19, 2021

Is the Republic dead? Can it be saved?

It’s not nearly as complicated as once I thought it was.  It’s a top-down insurrection.  All that it ever needed was a sufficient number of conspirators, in key positions, to network with each other.  Granted...

September 14, 2021

Incompetence, corruption, and the Pelter Principle

The Pelter Principle is similar to the Peter Principle, not only in spelling but in a more important regard.  The Peter Principle is a term invented by Laurence J. Peter.  He said, "In a hierarchy every employee tends to...

August 29, 2021

Why do believers believe?

I recently read an article written by an agnostic, who neither believes nor disbelieves in God.  Briefly, his point is that he would believe if he had a reason to do so, but he finds none.  He remains neutral.  This leads ...

August 20, 2021

The value of a fierce enemy

The value of a fierce enemy is that he forces us to recognize and overcome our weaknesses.  We are now faced with several fierce enemies.  Their actions are reprehensible.  Their crimes are horrific.  We are on...

August 14, 2021

Will the next major war find us unprepared and unwilling to win?

In World War 2, the United States lost 400,000 men.  This works out to about 300 deaths per day.  Some days saw few men killed; at other times, thousands were killed in a single day.  Okinawa alone, the final battle, saw...

August 6, 2021

Cultural catastrophism

Geologists define catastrophism as the theory that sudden, violent, and unpredictable events have dramatically changed the world throughout prehistory.  The dinosaurs were the victims of one such event, the Yucatán meteor impact...

August 4, 2021

Curing the virus of leftism

There are two kinds of viruses that most people know about:  computer and biological.  There is a third kind that we are beginning to understand more fully than ever before.  It is cultural and political.  It i...

July 31, 2021

Advanced economics that even a child can understand

Even though I studied fundamental economics at the college level, I have found that anyone, yes, anyone, can learn enough about economics, on his own, without college, to tell the difference between common sense and the idiocy that pervades leftist a...

July 29, 2021

What I learned about imposters from the private sector

Working for a major business, I discovered firsthand that big corporations are actually small governments.  Therefore, their problems, and their solutions, point the way to how we can identify, and repair, what is going wrong with America....

July 28, 2021

Misperception is becoming reality

Decades ago, it occurred to me (and undoubtedly to many others) that there would come a day when movies would no longer need human actors.  We are on the verge of that.  Special effects will, in the future, mimic humans so well th...

July 27, 2021

It's not the vaccine, stupid

Why do so many Americans resist being vaccinated against COVID?  Or is that what they are actually resisting?   When I was a child, I was vaccinated against a number of deadly diseases.  As an adult, I had my own chil...

July 24, 2021

Dictators and washing machines

The reach of the political left can find its way into unexpected places and impose its will in surprising ways.  Even the ordinary washing machine has not escaped.   About three years ago or so, my wife and I replaced our aging...

July 22, 2021

Maybe we don't need a solution to 'gender inequity'

I recently watched two online video presentations about gender inequity (here and here).  There are many others, but I stopped there.  Both of them are informative and, I think, well-meaning, but they have two glaring de...

July 14, 2021

America as an old car: Worth repairing?

Years ago, short of money, I owned a car that, in retrospect, I should never have bought.  Almost everything imaginable was wrong with it.  It leaked oil, used too much fuel, was oftentimes difficult to start, and when it did, it ...

June 14, 2021

Why most of us can never understand politicians

By and large, politicians are a different breed of person from the average voter.  This is especially true for those who are dishonest.  The most avaricious of politicians are worlds apart from the rest of us.  Their ava...

June 9, 2021

Why the government cannot answer the UFO question

The anticipated release of a government report about UFOs (or UAPs) later this month has created a lot of public discussion about what might be included in that report, and perhaps more importantly, what might be excluded.  But in the end, ...

June 5, 2021

Growing up on the stoop

The stoop of an apartment building consists of a few steps upward, at the entrance.   They are a common sight in many large cities, especially where a large number of brown-brick, multi-story buildings are crowded together, often on bo...

May 30, 2021

The niggling problem with religious freedom

The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1892 that "Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law ... not Christianity with an established church ... but Christianity with liberty of conscience t...

May 11, 2021

Leftism: The snake is eating itself

Leftist theory has become terminally self-contradictory. Like a snake eating itself, leftism ensures its own doom.  Unfortunately, it can take down much of the society with it. Its self-contradictions are numerous.  As one...

April 30, 2021

I cannot imagine their mindset

Many of us recently saw an online video of a young teenage girl brandishing a knife, large enough to be a deadly weapon, attempting to stab another young girl.  Just in the nick of time, a police officer shot the attacker, who died. ...

April 17, 2021

Believe it or not, we need more congressmen

Most conservatives would agree that the federal government concentrates too much power in too few hands.  It was not always so.  Regarding representation in Congress, Article One of the Constitution states, "The number o...

March 30, 2021

No presidency anymore

The radical left did not steal the presidency — they eliminated it.   The Biden so-called press conference, a parody of itself, proved that.  While Biden had some moments in which he seemed lucid, he had many in which he ...

March 21, 2021

What are the conditions that cause a rebellion?

Oppressed societies do not automatically rebel.  Perhaps contrary to intuition, oppressed populations have a tendency to keep their heads down.  Despite their misery, they continue their increasingly dismal lives, until something ...

March 19, 2021

Mitch McConnell is really pushing our credulity

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader, cannot be as stupid as his words make him sound, but the alternative is worse than mere rank stupidity. On the Senate floor, he said:   Does anyone really believe the Americ...

March 8, 2021

Is it right to kill to protect mere property?

Most of us would agree that a human life is worth more than material goods.  There are limits to what we can do to protect our physical possessions.  Even the life of a thief is worth more than a hubcap or a lawn ornament....

March 2, 2021

Will the states save us from a corrupted GOP?

President Trump said, at CPAC, that he does not support the idea of leaving the Republican Party to form another one.  I understand his reasoning, but I am very skeptical that we can work within the party to successfully reform it. ...

February 25, 2021

The sad, sad state of modern science reporting

Science reporting is one of the saddest casualties of the schools of journalism.  It is one thing for reporters to fawn over this or that politician and to vilify the opponent; we can, after all, decide for ourselves in such matters. ...

February 20, 2021

Is space exploration a waste of money or a necessary endeavor?

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite (Sputnik) into orbit.  The Soviets had "beaten us" into space.  That was a "wake-up call" to the United States on many levels. In response, the U.S. beg...

February 17, 2021

Wanting a strong American culture is not racist

A few years ago, I engaged in conversation with a nice elderly lady.  Her opinions included the full panoply of leftist thought, including approval of redefining marriage and of abortion, both of which I abhor, but I listened.  Th...

February 16, 2021

How Democrats thank Mitch McConnell for his help in bringing Trump down

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) may have learned a painful lesson about straddling the political fence.  After he strongly rebuked President Trump, accusing him of inciting the January 6 riot, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in turn, rebuk...

February 14, 2021

Yes, there is a God

One equals one (1 = 1).  Any competent mathematician can tell you that.  But, like a lot of things, no one can prove it.  (I’ll wait while you try.)  Mathematicians will tell you that it cannot be done....

February 11, 2021

America is in its 'darkest before the dawn' stage now

I am not a defeatist, but the road to victory often begins with a dismal start.  It was so in World War 2, when the Germans and Japanese steamrolled American and British forces in every battle for the first months of the conflict. ...

February 6, 2021

What's China going to do with a Biden-run America?

I recently watched a few videos online that purport to predict the near future.  Prediction is an understandable desire, especially as the domestic and geopolitical situations have become very critical and complex.  It is mor...

February 3, 2021

Donald Trump, the cleaning lady, and the economy

There is a story I've heard about a professor in a college of business.  As I recall, he was teaching students who were on track to become top-tier managers in major corporations.  On the final examination for his course, ther...

January 28, 2021

The mystery of conservatives hating Trump

Five to six years ago, I was corresponding online, on a regular, frequent basis, with several strong conservatives.  We all advocated for policies like smaller central government; lower taxes; First, Second and Tenth Amendment freedoms; res...

January 24, 2021

Why do such incompetent people so often get to be leaders over others?

Some memories, seemingly trivial, tend to stay with one for a lifetime.  More than sixty-five years later, I still remember Billy E. We were in elementary school.  On the playground, the girls would go off to one side, the boys...

January 21, 2021

Those who celebrate the Biden presidency will be disappointed

Doubtless, they did what they honestly believe is right.  I respect that, and I hope they continue to always do what they sincerely believe in.  I know they despise Donald Trump, and for reasons they believe justifies it. ...

January 16, 2021

Capitol riot: What is going on beneath the surface?

Anyone who has spent much time fishing has likely observed turbulence on the surface of the water, without necessarily understanding what was causing it.  Sometimes, it is due to a school of fish attempting to escape from a predator. ...

January 9, 2021

Was the Capitol storming America's Reichstag fire?

It remains to be seen whether the incursion into the Capitol (Jan. 6, 2021) was the act solely of Trump-supporters or whether there was some involvement by Antifa agents provocateurs.  Given the propagandist character of the major news...

December 31, 2020

Americans need to get their World War II fighting spirit back

In the 1930s, when Japanese military forces attacked China with bullets and bombs, the local populace, for the most part, ran or hid in terror.  Theirs was a nation of warlords, not really a nation in the sense that we understand it. ...

December 29, 2020

Old-guard scientists reveal their biases as new scientists suggest evidence for God

For many years now, the argument by atheist scientists has seemed reasonable.  It goes something like this:  we do not claim that there is no God.  We simply claim that there is no scientific evidence for Him. ...

December 25, 2020

We have entered the Twilight Zone

With the refusal of the US Supreme Court to even hear the facts of the election fraud case, we have reached a political and societal singularity.  In physics, a singularity is a condition in which all the known laws of nature seem to break ...

December 20, 2020

How would you prove you're getting robbed?

One of my idle hobbies is writing science fiction stories.  The first one will be published after I die, at which point I will become rich and famous.   None of them, however, is as strange as the bizarre world in which we now ...

December 16, 2020

Is the whole government in on this fraudulent election?

Every once in a while, most of us wind up in situations where we are completely baffled.  It may be a simple situation, such as having looked literally everywhere for our reading glasses, and not having found them.  Did they viola...

December 12, 2020

It's not looking good

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, I knew that the nation had made a big mistake, but I was confident that we could survive it.  Now I have no such confidence.  Biden and Harris have done all they can to steal an ele...

December 10, 2020

Will the Supreme Court ignore the stolen election?

Remember the famous football game?  It wasn't just a pass-interference infraction that caused the controversy.  It was blatant.  It was seen on live television by millions of football fans.  The pass defend...

December 5, 2020

When does a conspiracy theory become a conspiracy?

Consider the following scenario:   Two similar businesses, literally side by side, are subjected to laws designed to prevent the spread of the China Virus.  One is shut down; the other, with the blessing of the state, remains o...

December 4, 2020

Is America ready to commit suicide?

I was at a stop light, waiting for it to turn green, when I noticed in my rearview mirror a large truck speeding toward me.  I knew that it was about to slam into me.  Instantly, I took my foot off the brake, and accelerated throu...

December 2, 2020

Yielding to tyranny is a shameful way to die

It has been quipped that the only thing people learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.  In that regard, while it may be tiresome to draw analogies to Adolf Hitler, his example reveals how little we have learned. ...

December 1, 2020

Will the courts help America on the road to suicide?

I recall a case in which a criminal had murdered a child, then buried her.  A complication arose, and the question came up — might the victim still be alive?  There was a limited time to find the little girl.  If i...

November 26, 2020

An America of snitches and rats?

During Army Basic Training, decades ago, I was one of about a hundred recruits in our class.  One hot summer day, we were called outside, to stand in formation, so that the commanding officer could address us.  It was not a pleasa...

November 25, 2020

Sometimes you don’t need to be a lawyer to make a case

As I watch President Trump’s legal team make the case that the election was stolen from him, I get lost in the convolutions -- but not in the simple principles of fact and fairness. Were I to be granted five minutes in front of the Supreme ...

November 19, 2020

Justice Amy Coney Barrett left an important clue concerning an electoral fraud ruling

In a Senate hearing, Senator Kamala Harris demonstrated a twofold ploy of dishonesty while attempting to trap Judge (now Justice) Amy Coney Barrett in a trick question.  See if you can quickly pick out the two ploys in the following short v...

November 11, 2020

How Trump might still win

There is hope.  It's slim, but it's there. This has never happened before, and we are in murky territory, but let's try to see through the murk. In several states, including the ones Trump is now suing (Pennsylvania includ...

November 5, 2020

Paying tribute to the vanishing heroes of Guadalcanal

Seventy-eight years ago this month (in November 1942), the United States was embroiled in a major battle of World War 2, a battle that lasted for months and easily could have gone either way at many times.  Had we lost, many thousands of Am...

August 26, 2020

Trump knows about the deadliest threat to his re-election

President Trump, in a recent press event, strongly alluded to the real and deadly electoral threat.  It is not merely the potential fraud of mail-in ballots.  It is the built-in incentive for unmotivated Biden-supporters, who woul...

August 19, 2020

How do we explain Republicans who support Biden?

I personally know some Republicans who now support Biden for president.  Mind you, these are people who vigorously opposed Obama's ruinous depredations of the American economy for eight solid years.  They ranted against his tr...

August 4, 2020

Real racism versus fake

I'm triggered.  After more than six decades of experience, I finally decided it is time to speak about the twin curses of racism: the real and the fake. For years, I have learned to avoid the subject whenever I was in the compan...

July 27, 2020

John Newton — from slave-trader to abolitionist

In this era of tearing down statues of anyone who had anything to do with slavery, the story of John Newton should cause some to question their actions. John Newton was born in 1725 and died in 1807.  He is famous for having written the hymn...

July 4, 2020

Groveling, sniveling revolutionaries?

The mental picture of a revolutionary that first comes to mind, at least to me, is that of a toughened, hardened zealot who carries his torch or pitchfork to the walls of the baron's castle and who braves the arrows launched at him, as he defiant...

June 4, 2020

Midway: Victory and scandal

Seventy-eight years ago (on June 4–7, 1942), the United States Navy fought and won the Battle of Midway.  Courageous American warriors defeated a powerful Japanese invasion fleet and, in the process, sank of four of Japan's six la...

May 30, 2020

Science's inadequacies show more starkly now than ever

When we begin life, it is as if we were suddenly thrust into a game, a deadly serious game, one in which we know neither the rules nor the object.  We have no alternative but to play it.  We have no choice but to seek answers, or ...

May 29, 2020

China is setting the stage for the next major war

Before the ink was dry on the treaty that ended World War 1, planning began for the Second World War.  That is not far from the truth.  The 1920s and '30s saw Japan, Germany, and Italy seeking to expand their military forces, ...

May 13, 2020

Swamp still un-drained in Washington? Blame the Brother-in-Law Effect

Over the years, a number of inexplicable events have perplexed many observers of politics.  Here are a few examples. Chief justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare is a tax.  Obama's lawyers had argued...

May 6, 2020

Coral Sea, the forgotten battle that saved America

Seventy-eight years ago this week, (May 4–8, 1942) the United States Navy, despite being outnumbered and outgunned, repelled a large Japanese invasion fleet in the Battle of the Coral Sea, just east and north of Australia.  It wa...

April 15, 2020

Necessary education innovation after COVID-19

With the prolonged shutdown of schools across the USA, local boards of education are struggling to avoid the prospect of interrupted school years and delayed graduations.  They are wondering what to do about promoting students to the next g...

April 11, 2020

Reporters are not just biased, but incompetent

The following exchange speaks volumes: REPORTER: "Checking on oil again today —" PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Where is it today? Give me the price." REPORTER: "I am not sure, to be honest." PRESIDEN...

April 2, 2020

Forces of cultural destruction running wild in America

We are facing a struggle for survival.  The Chinese Virus, the invisible enemy, is but one of the threats that face us.  It has unmasked other threats, which for far too long have been ignored.  They are threats to our n...

March 26, 2020

COVID-19 and the fog of war

Every year, many thousands of people die of what is called ordinary flu.  Tens of thousands die in traffic accidents.  Then there are industrial accidents, household mishaps, and huge numbers of avoidable deaths attributed to toba...

March 11, 2020

The most important vice president we will ever choose

Traditionally, the nominated candidate for vice president is regarded as almost an afterthought on the ticket, chosen more for the hope of adding his state's electors to the final total than for any dramatic qualification.  This time, h...

February 15, 2020

The transgender road to Hell

If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, those intentions include the status of transgenders in society. A transgender person is someone who mistakenly thinks he is a she, or vice versa.  Mistakenly?  Those who advoca...

December 6, 2019

Accusing President Trump of bank robbery

The following did not happen.  It's all a lie. A man named Joe looked over his bank statement and found what he believed to be an error.  He wasn't sure, but he thought his balance should be more than the statement refl...

November 24, 2019

A simple proof of intelligent design

One of the biggest, and most consequential, debates in science is the question of whether the universe, and the life it harbors, are intelligently designed, or whether we all exist only by random chance.  Many minds far greater than mine...

November 7, 2019

Hillary Derangement Syndrome, or its 2020 equivalent

More than once in my past commentaries, I have confessed that, had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential election, I would have developed HDS; Hillary Derangement Syndrome.  Before that election, I wrote of dark premonitions, the forebo...

October 31, 2019

Is the USA headed for a violent revolt in 2020?

The United States was founded in a violent revolution and then, "fourscore and seven years" later, found itself in the midst of a brutal civil war that cost the lives of three quarters of a million Americans, more American deaths ...

October 29, 2019

How America's justice system is beginning to crumble

We Americans have long prided ourselves on the fairness of our system of justice.  It remains the best in the world.  But, just like a strong and magnificent bridge across a wide river, corrosion can set in.  If not moni...

October 24, 2019

Plea bargains are a blight on our justice system

Some years ago, near where I live, a young man was accused of battery against another young man.  The police investigated, and the prosecutor suggested that a plea bargain would be advisable.  The family of the victim was outraged...

October 22, 2019

Men and women are different: Settled science or sexism?

The U.S. Army recently instituted a new and controversial physical fitness test to evaluate combat readiness for soldiers.  Why is it controversial?  Because eighty-four percent of the women who take the test fail it. Many...

October 21, 2019

Liberals just don't think like us

If you are mystified by things liberals say and do, then you are in good company.  What they say, and what they do, begins with what they think, and they do not think like us.  Their thinking makes as little sense as what they say...

October 16, 2019

Time for an end to wars of sincerely good intentions

For millennia, humans have fought wars.  Most of them were probably launched unjustly, wars of conquest and enslavement.  Some were matters of national survival, wars in which the defending side, if it lost, ceased to exist. ...

October 12, 2019

Is Trump Luring Kim and Xi into a Death Trap?

One of the Machiavellian principles of power, at least inferred, is that dictators must surround themselves with their enemies.  This sounds illogical, but it's true.  Mafia bosses must surround themselves with a protective la...

October 5, 2019

It's impeachment or violence. Take your pick.

The Left finds it not only acceptable, but necessary to kick old men while they are on the ground, clinging to their pro-life protest signs.  Worse is yet to come. Leftists make the case that their violence is justified because...

September 20, 2019

America is the linchpin of the world

If the sun were suddenly to vanish, the planets would darken and be flung into the frigid wilderness of outer space, doomed to lifeless oblivion. In world society, politically and economically, the United States of America is the powerful, and mor...

September 18, 2019

Of course UFOs are real...but what are they?

For decades, the U.S .government has dismissed reports of unidentified flying objects, known more familiarly as "flying saucers."   Pilots learned that reporting what they saw could end their careers.  Their sanity ...

September 17, 2019

What I may remember about an incident that may have happened

After years of secret shame, I must finally go public with the truth, or something resembling the truth — maybe.  Here are the sordid details.  Thirty years ago, if my memory is correct, I suspect that I may have possibly be...

August 17, 2019

The hijacking of civil rights

At a very early age, I remember being babysat by a beautiful young lady named Willie-Mae.  She taught me a simple lesson that has guided me for more than sixty-five years.  One day, when I was about four or five years old, I crawl...

July 26, 2019

Shrewd as a fox: Does Ocasio-Cortez want Trump to win in 2020?

Anyone who has seriously played deep-strategy games such as chess and Othello recognizes the importance of making a counter-intuitive move that, although in the short-term seems to lose, does in the long-term set up a win.  In chess, this i...

July 19, 2019

For love or money…

The expression is "for love or money."  Of the announced hopeful candidates for the 2020 presidential election, Marianne Williamson promises love, and Andrew Yang promises money: a thousand dollars a month for every American....

July 11, 2019

How the US Justice System Can Put You in Jail Forever...When You're Innocent

The American justice system works well.  It does not work perfectly.  Like a well running, expensive automobile, a single malfunctioning part can result in minor inconvenience or, sometimes, disaster.  Our justice system...

June 13, 2019

Gillibrand almost got it right

She almost got me.  For a moment, I thought Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and I could finally agree on something.  False alarm. Gillibrand started her statement well enough.  She said, "Some issues ....

June 11, 2019

Could bribes be involved in Congress's refusal to seal the border?

It is no secret that the Mexican drug cartels are, at least in large part, running Mexico.  Those whom they cannot bribe, they murder.  The murders are intentionally brutal, sending an unmistakable message to those who might other...

June 9, 2019

The divisions among Americans are reaching a tipping point

The first step toward solving social ills is to understand people.  Our founders well understood that people are not inherently good, but they are redeemable.  That is the true condition of human nature.  The sooner that...

June 6, 2019

How do we deal with America's mental illness crisis?

Before Ronald Reagan became President Reagan in 1981, the old Soviet Union (dominated by today's Russia) imprisoned political opponents in psychiatric hospitals.  In later years, many of those former inmates recalled that the very fact ...

May 25, 2019

Is political bias ruining science?

Science junkie that I am, I enjoy reading science articles written for laymen like me, the titles of which might be "Science for Idiots" or something like that.  Being informed about science, and being able to think rationally, ar...

May 12, 2019

Are Moral Values Subjective?

We are told, by the Left, that matters of right and wrong are situational.  They change with the times, with cultures, or with other conditions.  They reject the idea that there are eternal, objective standards to which we are all...

May 8, 2019

Are driverless cars a threat to freedom?

My grandfather was the first person I personally knew who had a reliable driverless vehicle.  In the 1920s, he had a horse-drawn buckboard-style wagon.  When the workload at his farm permitted, he would go into town at night and d...

May 4, 2019

Prohibition: Good idea, bad law

Nationwide prohibition was repealed on December 5, 1933.  After that, the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages to adults was, for the most part, once again, legal. In the years since, much has been forgotten about how and why the ...

May 1, 2019

Time to sound the alarm about 5G?

My grandmother cooked in her kitchen on a wood-burning stove until, at 92 years of age, she passed away.  Wood stove technology is not as simple as some people think.  We may have to learn it all over again.  Here is why...

April 30, 2019

For leftists, the only goal is to win

This is war.  It is a war of ballots, not bullets, but no less a war, because no less is at stake.  The radical left understands that and has been acting accordingly for years.  Trump is the surprise attack — the une...

April 25, 2019

US Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs

These days, few educated people are dismissive of the idea that, elsewhere in the galaxy, there may be advanced technological civilizations capable of space travel.  We have no actual evidence for believing that there are, but the notion se...

March 15, 2019

Why I did not get into Yale (hint: I wasn't qualified)

Pity the rich.  It used to be the middle class that got squeezed.  We had too little money to pay for college, but so much money that we had to buy tuition (and books, etc.) for the poor.  Still, we found other ways to succeed....

March 3, 2019

What does it take to start a civil war?

Perhaps the most famous civil war in history began on April 12, 1861, when secessionist Southerners attacked the United States Army garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.  Subsequent hostilities embroiled the American states in bloody bat...

March 2, 2019

A manifesto of freedom

What is more valuable to a free man than his freedom?  Is it safety?  Comfort?  Love?  Whatever treasures one can name, each of them, without freedom, is, sooner or later, forfeit.  Our freedoms are not...

February 26, 2019

Will women be subjected to involuntary service in the combat infantry?

A federal judge has ruled that drafting men, but not women, into military service is unconstitutional.  The ruling as of yet has no immediate enforcement effect, but it has raised the stakes for young women.  Indeed, for many who ...

February 24, 2019

Dianne Feinstein flubbed the most important interview of her life

Leftist Senator Dianne Feinstein was recently affronted by an even more leftist activist group using small children as political props as a tactic of confrontation.  Here is a clip. One child in the group then told Feinstein the Green ...

February 22, 2019

Waking up in an American nightmare

I woke up this morning expecting to smell the aroma of bacon wafting from the kitchen and my mother's voice calling me to "get ready for school."  I expected to see my homework (arithmetic and spelling) already done and my Mig...

February 16, 2019

Have the Democrats discovered the Constitution?

For many years, the Democrats have found the Constitution to be an impediment to their goals.  To get around that document, they have invented the concept of a flexible Constitution, one that must be interpreted not as written, and not in a...

February 8, 2019

The rich are not like us

When Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer speak of getting justice for the poor, they are merely reading lines from a Latin liturgy — in other words, from a language they do not comprehend.  Abortion, the wall, foreign wars, social justice ...

February 4, 2019

Forgive me, but this is not who I am

Gov. Ralph Northam confessed.  He asked forgiveness from his fellow Democrats.  He got none. He also confessed to Republicans, but not on the racial matter for which Democrats will never forgive him.  He confessed to ...

January 29, 2019

Saints-Rams game: A microcosm?

By now, even many of those who are disinterested in sports have heard of the controversy in the National Football League (NFL) concerning an error by a referee that probably changed the outcome of a championship game, likely costing the New Orleans S...

January 23, 2019

George Orwell and 2084

While I continue to believe that the United States can survive anything, there are times when that faith is sorely tested.  We survived the sundering Civil War and two world wars, as well as a decades-long nuclear face-off with the Soviet U...

January 5, 2019

America is self-destructing over 'hate speech'

Most of us are firmly opposed to hate speech.  What is hate speech?  A problem arises when our definitions vary.  Another problem arises when we seek the right way to oppose it. Unfortunately, there are powerful force...

January 4, 2019

Epiphany of a betrayed conservative

The classic stereotype of dishonesty and deception involves the used car salesman.  In my case, the allusion became literal.  After having found myself aghast at the obvious and blatant lies told by a salesman, I walked out of the...

December 16, 2018

A crisis in science

Science is on the brink – of either a stunning breakthrough or the abyss of defeat.  For centuries, science has progressed from superstition to discovery, and current predictions include the promise of solving nature's greatest myst...

December 15, 2018

They are not us

In 2009, as Barack Obama began his depredations on the Constitution, I participated in a Tea Party march in Washington.  A number of infiltrators tried to enter the marches, carrying banners designed to put us into a false, and racist, ligh...

December 14, 2018

Scientific American: If you like Trump, you suffer from 'antagonism'

They're at it again.  The very title of the magazine, "Scientific American," is less and less apt with nearly every issue.  Its increasingly political agenda has been on display for years.  This time, ...

December 13, 2018

The war on Christmas and the government as King Herod

As yet another Christmas season dawns upon us, those who rejoice in its message must once again contend with those who despise it.  Anti-Christianity has become the hate that dares not speak its own name, disguising itself instead in the sh...

December 7, 2018

China 2018 = Japan 1918

China is following the path that Japan took in the years leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor 77 years ago.  Of course, China has been much more subtle, but no less aggressive.  Indeed, the outcome may be worse. Some backg...

November 8, 2018

Irrational People Cannot be Persuaded

I once worked for a brilliant man who ran a successful company.  He was frugal, took prudent risks, and was generous to his employees, whom he credited with his success.  I learned much from him. But, every once in a while, this man woul...

October 31, 2018

Would the American left suborn an invasion?

Sometime in the 1960s, as I recall, a prominent person in the news made the sarcastic statement that if an enemy invasion army were to land on our shores, the ACLU would meet the soldiers on the beaches to protect their rights.  The ACLU qu...

October 23, 2018

When 'schools, not battleships' gets you killed

History repeats itself.  Those who do not take its lessons must learn them all over again, and painfully.  The current tumult facing President Trump is vastly more complex than the headlines suggest, and the consequences of failin...

October 21, 2018

Men can be women now, you bigot

Everyone knows that when you engineer a bicycle, its parts should work together with each other, not against.  The same is true of a society.  Unfortunately, society is becoming like a bicycle in which each wheel turns in the oppo...

October 18, 2018

The top ten ways 'Roseanne' should have died

As we all know by now, those who wield the most influence in the entertainment industry despise conservatives, especially those who succeed despite all expectations.  Donald Trump is their number-one deplorable, followed by Brett Kavanaugh....

October 9, 2018

When Joe Manchin pulls his mask off, what do you see?

Do liberal politicians really advocate socialism?  Do they truly condemn due process?  Are they sincerely committed to abortion?  If so, can they be persuaded to see the light? Indeed, many of them already have seen i...

July 24, 2018

Who owns a word?

They call it, the N-word.  It is the scarlet letter of modern culture in the English-speaking world.  Everyone in colonial New England knew what the "A" stood for, and we all know what the "N" signifies: nigger...

July 16, 2018

Why is dictatorship possible?

I have often wondered how it is possible for one person, or a few people, to give orders to an entire nation, which then obeys those edicts, even to its own detriment. Were I to try such a thing, I would be ignored, or worse, thrown out on my ear ...

June 11, 2018

Marriage in chaos

In the lifetime of us older guys, the institution of marriage has taken a severe beating.  Easy divorce, premarital cohabitation, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and same-sex so-called marriage have all thrown the civil institution of marriage an...

May 29, 2018

The Leftist College Student Handbook

Welcome to Leftist College.  As a student at our prestigious institution, you will be required to comply with all of our rules, written as well as unwritten. Each of you has by now been issued a dictionary of permitted words.  Words not ...

May 26, 2018

Why are white 'bigots' stockpiling guns?

I propose that Scientific American magazine (S.A.) be renamed Pseudo-Science Magazine.  My inbox, every so often, receives articles from S.A.'s online platform, and as I have previously reported here, they contain decreasin...

May 24, 2018

Government corruption and the destruction of a great man

It is easy to corrupt the greedy man.  It is another to corrupt a heroic man.  Yet within each of us lurks a dark corner that, unless we implore God to shine His light into it, can corrupt us. If anyone doubts this, consider th...

May 18, 2018

The North Korean enigma

Call me simple, but I am confused about why, or even whether, North Korea will denuclearize. As we all know, North Korea is a dictatorship.  Worse yet, it is an inconceivably brutal dictatorship in the mold of Stalin.  Such a s...

May 13, 2018

It's not a debate...it's warfare

A conservative friend (call him Sam) and I were discussing the bizarre but common phenomenon of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).  As we did so, Sam expressed his growing frustration.  Each of us has, on occasion, whether online o...

May 3, 2018

Human nature and feminist biology

Human nature contains two overlapping and asymmetric natures: those of manhood and womanhood.  Failure to develop a comprehensive philosophy incorporating those two have led to tragic confusion. It seems widely accepted, at least by the ...

April 30, 2018

Always blame capitalism, even before humans existed

As we all know, Earth's climate has undergone numerous changes, some of them catastrophic, even before humans were around to cause it.  This poses a dilemma for those whose political philosophy requires them to blame capitalism for virt...

April 18, 2018

Why Chemical Weapons Are Banned

In recent days, the question has arisen as to why we are concerned about Syria's use of chemical weapons.  After all, in the Syrian conflict, tens of thousands of people have been killed by what are called "conventional weapons....

April 17, 2018

Can you be trusted to vote wisely?

Imagine that you are on your way to the voting booth, intending to vote for Candidate X.  Just as you are almost there, you hear the news:  the FBI has announced that candidate X is under investigation for (insert the worst crime ...

April 8, 2018

In our darkest hour, we find our brightest hope

There are times when I cannot read or listen to, the news.  It’s too depressing.  High government officials are defying the law.  Judges are making absurd rulings.  Major tech companies are becoming de facto governments of t...

March 29, 2018

Roseanne Barr the door

I grew up when two of the most popular television shows were Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver.  Both of them portrayed conventional American families in an idealistic light but also families confronting real social and moral issues....

March 28, 2018

North Korea is not just a military problem, but a moral one

In 1969, I had two experiences in Korea that color my perceptions of the ongoing crisis there.  One day, while on infantry patrol in the demilitarized zone separating South and North Korea, I looked through binoculars and could clearly see ...

March 26, 2018

The robots are short-circuiting

Technology is a wonderful thing.  It has helped to make the lives of ordinary Americans more comfortable than those of kings and queens throughout most of history.  And the future promises even more a cornucopia of ever more astou...

March 22, 2018

Facebook forced me to force my wife to vote for Trump

-Satire- I must have gotten amnesia retroactively, because now I have discovered, from a speech given by Hillary Clinton in India, that I forced my wife to vote for Trump.  Okay, I do have a vague memory, perhaps a false one, that as I f...

March 20, 2018

Little white lies and minor murders

It has been said by experts that we all tell lies, at least now and then.  It has even been said that some lies are of benefit to the person being lied to.  If his wife asks, "Do you like this dress," or her husband asks...

March 17, 2018

The decimation of the English language

Many English-speaking people have little appreciation of what a wonderful gift their language is.  Partly because it incorporates so many other languages, and partly because of the rich traditions of Western culture, English is the most exp...

March 6, 2018

Is prayer a symptom of insanity?

In a televised discussion about Vice President Mike Pence's religious views, in which he stated that Jesus speaks to him, Joy Behar, who is a panelist on the TV show The View, commented, "It's one thing to talk to Jesus.  It...

March 5, 2018

Has science found a way to prevent school shootings?

Having long been a critic of the political bias found in Scientific American, I must now give credit where credit is due.  Its recent commentary on school shootings offered specific and tested preventive measures, and to my s...

February 27, 2018

Transgender doctrine: Absurd premise, deadly results

An axiom is a truth nobody can prove.  For example, everyone knows that one equals one, but there is no formal proof.  However, when one tries to do arithmetic by ignoring that axiom and, say, letting one equal two, then very quic...

February 26, 2018

Crime, Corruption, and College Sports

According to sports news service ESPN, "The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced federal corruption charges against four NCAA assistant basketball coaches on Tuesday.  The three-year FBI probe...

February 2, 2018

Politicizing science threatens science

In the old Soviet Union, science was subverted to promote failed socialist policies. The results were disastrous to both Russian society and to Russian science itself. Everything scientists did was for the advancement of the state, meaning the dictat...

January 30, 2018

In today's America, beggars can be choosers

Begging has been a part of societies since at least as far back as Biblical times.  But today, street begging seems to be a growing industry.  As in any industry, beggars compete with each other.  As in any industry, begging has its ex...

January 26, 2018

Was Obama too smart to be president?

One of the most disappointing current examples of hijacking of science for left-wing political purposes is Scientific American, which in more ways than one has become the New York Times of science. Both publications were, at one time, interested...

January 19, 2018

Hillary Derangement Syndrome

I have a confession to make.  I have HDS – Hillary Derangement Syndrome.   It is dormant, but only because Hillary Clinton did not become president of the United States.  Had she, I would now be every bit as d...

January 10, 2018

War with North Korea Is Inevitable

In 1969, I was a U.S. Army soldier on foot patrol on the banks of the Im Jin River, just a rifle shot from North Korea.  Although the war in Vietnam was raging at the time, getting all the headlines, there were Americans being killed along ...

January 7, 2018

Is Society Evolving toward Extinction?

A recent online article about a computer glitch has exposed yet another vulnerability civilization faces – not despite its technological complexity, but because of it.  We all know that society depends heavily on computers, and we have bec...

December 26, 2017

Why is the US government funding UFO research?

A recent news item involving UFOs has caught the public's attention.  A Navy pilot's gun camera shows an unknown aerial object above the ocean near San Diego.  It was performing aerial maneuvers not known to be possible by...

December 17, 2017

How an abusive government turns the Constitution against you

Question: Does the Bill of Rights protect citizens from government excess?  Nearly everyone will agree that it does.  The very reason we have a Bill of Rights is to protect you, the citizen, against abuses by government. Next question: C...

December 15, 2017

How to brainwash a so-called 'science-denier'

Scientific American Magazine was at one time an informative and objective publication.  But in recent times, it has begun turning into a leftist rag, part of the trend toward politicizing science.  Here is the latest example. In a remark...

December 10, 2017

Is Jeff Sessions being blackmailed?

Let's begin with some accusations.  They are well founded and as credible as any against Roy Moore – perhaps more so. The FBI's first director, J. Edgar Hoover, was reputed to have compiled incriminating dossiers on just about e...

December 1, 2017

Is the Constitution a religious document?

The Constitution of the United States does not even mention God, not even by the term "Creator."  Indeed, Article VI expressly forbids consideration of religious affiliation as a requirement for public office.  It says, "[N]o...

November 29, 2017

Is there a conflict between science and human rights?

Science defines you as a robot.  The laws of cause and effect leave it no alternative but to do so.  And that definition, if accepted, would leave us with no human rights. Is there a better way to interpret science?  Are we automato...

November 27, 2017

Science Needs a New Paradigm

Science and politics used to be very separate institutions. Where they did overlap, science was nonpartisan. The role of scientists was to provide objective evidence -- and dispassionate, nonpolitical interpretations of that evidence. Indeed, one rar...

November 21, 2017

The income tax system cannot be fixed. It must be destroyed.

It's not just that the income tax system is broken; like the protagonist in classic Greek tragedy, it was fatally flawed from the start.  It violates every principle of good government.  Like a cancer, it has spread throughout the finan...

November 15, 2017

Diversity is a weakness

One frequently hears, from the political left, that diversity is our strength.  To a point, the leftists are correct.  But that point passed a long time ago.  Excessive diversity is not only a weakness, but a mortal danger to any socie...

November 13, 2017

The Dark Side of Science

The technology spawned by science grows ever more powerful, and does so at an ever-faster rate. Where is it taking us? Science has bestowed enormous benefits on mankind. But it has a dark side as well. It gives us miracle medicines, but ...

November 4, 2017

Who's chanting 'lock her up' now?

When Trump-supporters at his rallies chanted, "Lock her up!" – referring, of course to "Crooked Hillary" – many Democrats were incensed at what they regarded as sloganeering and poor taste.  Now, with the latest r...

November 2, 2017

Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the swamp

As one alternate juror put it, "I felt like a little kid that finds out there is no Santa Claus."  This was the remark of one citizen who observed testimony and other evidence arising from the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident, in which an inno...

October 25, 2017

Reaganizing Trump

When President Donald J Trump first stepped into the political swamp, he immediately found himself up to his, ahem, waist, in alligators. All of his enemies, and seemingly many of his supposed friends, immediately went on the attack, one which knows ...

October 23, 2017

How much will the final JFK assassination documents reveal?

Now that President Trump has approved release of the final set of documents in the JFK assassination, we may be closer to answers to the nagging doubts that have plagued Americans for more than half a century.  I am old enough to re...

October 4, 2017

Slouching toward dictatorship

The most efficient and effective form of government is totalitarian dictatorship.  In such a system, things get done.  No time is wasted on the niceties of debate and protest.  The order is given, the minions obey, and the trains run o...

September 30, 2017

Why Didn't They Shoot the German?

I was watching a World War II movie in a theater, with an Asian immigrant friend, when I learned a lesson in culture that no university could have taught better. In one battle scene, there is a cease-fire order, and a German soldier approaches the Br...

September 17, 2017

PC, the Military, and the Police

After decades of affirmative action, including gender quotas, the data are now in.  Why are they being ignored?  How much more damage will be done? I’m going to focus this commentary on women in the police and military forces....

August 12, 2017

Women Can('t) Do Anything Men Can Do

The phrase, “Women can do anything men can do,” seems at first to be a rather harmless sentiment. As with all such, it has its uses, if not taken too far. If men can be surgeons, then so can women. If men can run a hardware store, then so...

August 8, 2017

Hitler and Kim: History repeats itself

If we doubt the truism that history repeats itself, then let us examine a book published a year before the onset of World War 2 in Europe.  Here is a quote: In a tense atmosphere of dictatorial demands and acts, the people are held in the c...

August 2, 2017

North Korea: Should we act now or wait?

It seems possible that plans are already being implemented to invade North Korea.  I am not speaking of contingency plans; I am speaking of a date certain, a definite schedule, with step number one being the recent flyover of B1-B bombers n...

July 31, 2017

What Is normal? What Is Abnormal? Who Decides?

Now that President Trump has declared that so-called "transgender" persons are unfit for military service, the radical left is bringing out its (yawn) big guns.  In other words, it is playing the same broken record.  If you disagr...

July 10, 2017

Sorry, Son, You’re Not a Girl

I recently engaged in a back-and-forth discussion on another website, concerning the issue of GID (Gender Identity Disorder) with a person who supports transgender issues. More precisely, he (I will presume it’s a he) advocates societal changes...

June 28, 2017

Supreme Court Declines to Affirm Second Amendment Rights

The United States Supreme Court has declined to affirm the constitutional, Second Amendment rights which are guaranteed to citizens. They did so by rejecting an appeal from a lower court. That court had ruled that the state of California ca...

June 20, 2017

America is a Christian nation...so far

While the Constitution is neutral concerning religions, it is not neutral concerning religious philosophy.  The official neutrality among religions is an impartiality among specific denominations.  It is not, and never was, a proscription a...

June 15, 2017

Is Bernie Sanders Going to Hell?

We all have our own views on separation of church and state.  Some people think that the Constitution simply forbids the establishment of a Church of America.  Others hold that any hint of religious principle must be excluded from the publi...

June 12, 2017

The two Americas

For many years now, we conservatives have had the impression that our nation is fragmenting.  Day by day, more signs of this disintegration accumulate.  Throughout it all, many of us had hoped that the fragmentation could be reversed. ...

June 2, 2017

Was the Japanese Driver Insensitive?

This year’s Indianapolis 500 auto race classic was won by Takuma Sato. He is Japanese. Terry Frei, a veteran sportswriter for the Denver Post, seemed to ask, how dare he? After all, the event was held on Memorial Day, May 29, a day set aside to...

May 31, 2017

A parliament of whores and thieves

Why do Americans put up with it?  I'm talking about our kleptocracy, a government of kleptomaniac thieves. Not to pick on Janet Napolitano, but I wrote about her recently on this site, after she was caught squirreling away taxpayer money ...

May 27, 2017

Your opinion is hate speech

The implication cannot be missed: hate speech, as defined by Chelsea Clinton, is not protected under the Constitution.  Therefore, any speech radical leftists regard as hateful – and that covers pretty much everything with which they have ...

May 22, 2017

The Suicide of the Republican Party

Sir Winston Churchill once quipped that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Today, we might quip that Trump was the second worst president we could have elected. But, whatever his faults, Hillary Clinton would have b...

May 19, 2017

A tale of two countries

We have never been more secure.  We have never been more vulnerable. Forgive the mangling of beginning of A Tale of Two Cities, but these sentiments are true.  The complexities of society and technology have made us safer than ever befor...

May 11, 2017

James Comey, a modern Greek tragedy

As Americans, we tend to divide our prominent public figures into two main categories: hero and villain.  Would that life were so simple.  It has not been, not even in ancient times. Ancient Greek tragedy is a genre of classic literature...

May 10, 2017

Privacy Rights versus Public Necessity

Does the government have any right, or any compelling interest, in regulating my private behavior? The libertarian’s default answer is, “no.” In many, if not most cases, the libertarian is correct. There are, however, some import...

May 9, 2017

Congress complains that Congress cannot run Congress

According to this news article, "Capitol Hill, with its marble floors and magnificently landscaped grounds, is for many a desirable place to work.  ... [L]ong winter and summer recesses, for example, help compensate for the [low] wages. ...

May 5, 2017

Whence come our rights?

The single most important word in the Declaration of Independence may well be "Creator."  Without the Creator, we would not be "endowed with certain inalienable rights."  Our rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit...

May 3, 2017

Darkness at the Heart of Liberal Progressivism

We live in a nation in which the Constitution does not mention God.  Many on the left have used this fact to argue that the United States is a secular nation.  They then expand on this to justify banning all religious expression from any go...

April 29, 2017

Are Liberals Hopelessly Irrational?

In theory, two intelligent people who disagree on something, should be able to discuss the matter and resolve the issue. In practice, I have (to my dismay) found this not to be the case. Some people seem never to learn from experience. For example, n...

April 27, 2017

So how does Janet Napolitano do it?

One must wonder.  How does Janet Napolitano do it?  How does she continually wind up in places of power, despite her consistent reputation for ineptitude and corruption? While she was governor of Arizona, Napolitano requested increased f...

April 26, 2017

Flash robberies: The newest homeland threat

A recent incident on a train in Oakland, California offers a glimpse into how domestic terrorism may soon affect all of us, close up and personally.  In that incident, a group of teenagers swarmed onto a train, robbed several passengers, beat tw...

April 21, 2017

Our elections are being hacked – by Democrats

There is no doubt that the Russians, among about 500 other nations, would dearly love to hack elections in the United States.  Israel might be one of them – whoops, it was the Obama administration that actively attempted to unseat Isr...

April 18, 2017

Criminals are, after all, good people...not

According to a recent news report, California has adopted a policy of increased leniency toward criminals.  Unsurprisingly, violent crime in that state has significantly increased.  Could anyone fail to make the connection between the lenie...

April 15, 2017

War: The Necessary Insanity

The final line from an episode of "Black Sheep Squadron" has the TV show’s star saying, “Have we all gone crazy?” It is spoken after a battle in which the famous World War II fighter pilot is lamenting the loss of Ame...

April 13, 2017

Democrats: Worse than merely deranged?

I'm becoming more and more like a Democrat.  No, wait – let me explain.  Democrats believe that we conservatives are evil.  I'm starting to think about Democrats in the same way.  I am right to do so. It all st...

April 12, 2017

Trump needs to define his core principles

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump focused on winning.  He covered all bases and stamped out all brush fires.  He never quit; he never even slowed down.  He won! But now that he is in power, Trump has met his first f...

March 31, 2017

A Trumpian microcosm

Many years ago, I met a former mayor (selectman) of a small New England township whose brief political career had amazing similarities to that of the man who would become president in 2017.  His story is in many ways a microcosm of the present....

March 21, 2017

Re-educating the school system

The attempt by liberals to preserve the public education system is just that – an attempt to preserve a system, one that is failing all too many students and ignoring the needs of those students. Now that Betsy DeVos is the new secretary of ...

March 8, 2017

The left's war on science intensifies

Politically active scientists on the left are increasing the intensity of their already frantic anti-Trump propaganda.  While they wage a war on truth, they accuse us of waging war against science. Here is a quote from Jonathan Foley, the exe...

February 23, 2017

It's a choice: Brute force or democracy

Before democracy, there was only force.  Kings and oligarchs ruled with the supreme authority of the sharpened blade.  To question power was to die.  The only way to change the occupant of the throne was to kill him. Howsoever one m...

February 20, 2017

Science journalism is going full leftist

We on the right have grown to expect bias in political journalism – but most of us probably thought science literature would always be objective, and exempt from radical leftist opinion.  If so, then our thoughts were mistaken. Every on...

February 11, 2017

The second civil war is coming

Wars begin when, in a major crisis, no peaceful solution can be found.  We are at or near that point. The political left considers us irremediably evil and dangerous.  Thusly do they justify engaging in violence, sending their version of...

January 24, 2017

Inside the mind of a Trump-hater

Every once in a while, I encounter someone or other whom my head tells me I should despise, but instead, I feel strangely sorry for that person.  Here is a video example of that: In the video, an older woman on an airliner chooses to bera...

January 19, 2017

'Chelsea' is not a woman

Bradley (aka Chelsea) Manning is no more a woman than traitors are patriots. By blurring the distinctions among words, liberals have for many years now labeled terrorists as freedom-fighters, taxes as investments, and illegal aliens as immigrants....

January 18, 2017

Can Trump keep his promises?

If Washington, D.C. has a motto, it is probably something like “It can’t be done.”  If it can be done, then the motto becomes “That’s not the way we do things around here.”  One could list a gre...

January 16, 2017

Trump vs. the bureaucracy

As a child, my image of the government was formed by old newsreels from the 1940s and ’50s in which government officials were all stately gentlemen acting in the best interests of the nation.  As I grew older, that image became increasingl...

January 12, 2017

Killing CNN

Someday, Bill O'Reilly may add to his list of historical books, which include Killing Kennedy and Killing the Rising Sun, the title Killing CNN.  It portends to be the chronicle of a vital turning point in American history, the death of ...

January 11, 2017

Obamacare will self-repeal

The debate is over.  We do not need to repeal Obamacare; it will repeal itself.  Two words summarize why: risk pool. The ACA is founded upon a stunning misconception of the very definition of insurance.  Its advocates have mistakenl...

January 6, 2017

Donald Trump versus the black knights of the left

In the Monty Python comedy movie The Holy Grail, the legendary King Arthur encounters a fierce opponent, the Black Knight, guarding a bridge and forbidding Arthur to pass over it.  Swords are drawn, and a duel ensues.  Soon, Arthur has cut ...

December 26, 2016

Religious intolerance disguised as freedom

The American left has learned how to disguise its intolerance of religion as acts as freedom.  Two personal experiences led me to understand this. Years ago, I went through customs at an airport in Saudi Arabia.  I was shocked when the i...

December 22, 2016

It’s Babylon for the Democrats

The fury and ferocity we have seen from the liberal left is only beginning.  Their jeers have turned to tears, but those will soon boil away into a frenzy of frantic attacks on the new president-elect, Donald J. Trump. Many of us have been fo...

December 22, 2016

No brain required to import terrorists

One of life’s great mysteries is the fact that people with high intelligence scores are so often stupid – not just stupid, but breathtakingly so. I have seen it in my personal and professional life, as I am sure that you have also....

December 20, 2016

Warning to Democrats: The rules have changed

Bob Dylan's 1964 hit song, "The Times, they are a Changin'," might today be appropriately listened to by liberals and Democrats.  I doubt, however, that they will listen.  As the adage goes, none are so blind as them that ...

December 9, 2016

Restoring the real Democratic Party

Many Republicans rejoice in the repeated election disasters that, over the past six years, have reduced the Democratic Party to its present anorexic version of its formerly robust self.  The Democrats have sold out themselves, their followers, a...

November 30, 2016

Begging for voter fraud

Democrats are complaining that Hillary Clinton may have lost the election due to voter fraud.  It is ironic that they complain only now, when the policies they approved have left many doors wide open to fraud – in favor of Democrats. On...

November 21, 2016

Will the left actually incite a civil war?

In recent months, we have heard a lot of hyperbole concerning the deep divisions in American society.  At its most extreme, this division is described as embodying an impending civil war.  I used to laugh at the mere suggestion.  Now I...

November 18, 2016

Why the Clinton Machine broke down

Much will no doubt be said of the fact that Hillary Clinton lost the election despite having supposedly won the popular vote.  Yes, there are those who claim that her margin in the popular vote was due to fraud, but even if there was no fraudule...

November 12, 2016

Just what exactly did you mean by that?

For a number of years, my online discussions with liberals have met with a common frustration.  It is this:  two people can hear the exact same thing and yet hear them entirely differently. This became glaringly apparent in this year...

November 10, 2016

Scientists and unscientists in the wake of Trump's victory

When one thinks of scientists, one tends to picture solemn men and women in white laboratory coats, dispassionately seeking facts, wherever the objective evidence may lead.  Sadly, however, it seems that even science writers are subject to emoti...

November 3, 2016

Profiles in cowardice

The late President John F. Kennedy, while still a senator, published a book titled Profiles in Courage.  It won the Pulitzer prize in 1957.  See here. The book is a series of extended anecdotes from the lives of American statesmen, whom ...

October 25, 2016

The tip of the government corruption iceberg

In the George Orwell novel 1984, a scenario is presented in which nations go to war against each other not to win, but simply by agreement, to keep their populations subjugated.  It has been suggested that the Democrats and Republicans are do...

October 12, 2016

Tell me again who is anti-science

It is an astounding demonstration of hypocrisy.  Many in the scientific establishment say that if we are not persuaded that global climate change is man-made – and that it is reversible through man-made policy – then we are not simpl...

September 29, 2016

Is government really the problem?

Take it from this die-hard Reagan conservative: he was not quite entirely correct when he said, "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."  True, government is not the solution, but then the question be...

September 21, 2016

Islamists are making the case for profiling

We knew this would happen. To be sure, it’s easy to say so afterward, but then, you and I both know that we knew. It started on that infamous day of April 15, 2013, when two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, leaving three dead a...

September 16, 2016

Yet another liberal got mugged...literally

For the sake of humor, I often email my friends with a news report followed by a parody of it. Sometimes it is difficult, however, for readers to accept that the real news item is not itself the actual parody.  Here is an example. Accordin...

September 14, 2016

Why the Democrats cannot replace Hillary Clinton

With the much publicized recent health scare regarding Hillary Clinton, there are rumors of the Democrat National Committee seriously considering replacing her.  Here is why they can't. In a nutshell, it is the Clinton Family Foundation....

August 31, 2016

Evolution of the American dictatorship

The United States was designed from the ground up to prevent itself from becoming a dictatorship.  Checks and balances and a Bill of Rights were among the measures the Founders took great care to install in our Constitution.  For two centur...

August 27, 2016

Grinding down the public

A recent commentary in American Thinker reminded me of yet another example of seemingly minor abuse of citizens by the government – minor until one considers the overall accumulation of these unjust burdens.  The regulators who are suppose...

August 26, 2016

The edge of darkness

As election day approaches, I feel a dark premonition that we are about to lose our freedoms.  The portents are all too clear.  If Hillary Clinton takes the Oval Office, she will impose by executive order a list of so-called Progressive mea...

August 18, 2016

Coming soon: Everything will be free

The day is coming when everything will be free.  This is not a utopian pipe dream, but the inevitable result of ever increasing manufacturing efficiency and innovation.  As efficiency rises exponentially, costs will plummet.  Eventuall...

May 13, 2016

Existential political war has arrived...in both parties

Both major political parties are now locked in a death struggle.  The irony is that they are attempting not to annihilate each other, but rather to survive the onslaught of the voters.  No longer is the struggle between Democrat and Republi...

May 11, 2016

Suicide of the Two-Party System

Into which powerful organization can you become a voting member without at least filling out an application form?  Perhaps there are some, so let's clarify the question.  What if that organization were a major force in establishing who ...

April 17, 2016

Can we really govern ourselves?

It has been said by some, and not entirely without reason, that the American experiment in self-governance is failing.  Is it?  Are we incapable of the virtues required of sovereign citizens? The founding principle of American civics is ...

April 10, 2016

Society is reaching critical mass

There is a limit to how much stress can be put on something before it is finally and irreversibly destroyed.  It goes by several different names.  Critical mass, tipping point, and system overload are but a few.  In each case, the term...

March 31, 2016

How we got into this mess, and what will happen next

Once upon a time, there was a government founded upon the idea that the people govern themselves, and that in order to do so, those people elect representatives, who are responsible to the voters.  In other words, the voters govern themselves th...

December 23, 2013

Has A&E Awakened a Sleeping Giant?

While the Japanese were celebrating the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, the mastermind of that attack, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, had a sobering message for his countrymen. "We have awakened a sleeping giant," he said. Even before the wa...

October 29, 2012

Why Communism Works and Socialism Does Not

One of the most amazing phenomena of current political thought is the fact that only a very small percentage of people on the political left have a clue as to what socialism and communism are. If one were to ask 100 college students -- students who ...

August 28, 2011

A Conservative's Practical Guide to Challenging Libertarianism

Libertarianism is the political equivalent of an orange.  No sooner does one taste of the orange than he discovers both its sweetness (the flesh) and its bitterness (the white pericarp).  So it is with libertarianism, with its mix of s...