October 3, 2022

The Reckless Inauthenticity of Joe Biden

As the Biden administration's progressive agenda rages on, shell-shocked Americans are asking themselves, "How could so much go so wrong so fast?" From inflation to energy, immigration to crime, Afghanistan to fentanyl, President Bid...

March 11, 2022

Americans' Faustian bargain with Joe Biden

In the 2020 presidential election, America was faced with a true dilemma, the horns of which were to re-elect Donald Trump — to millions, incomprehensible and unthinkable — or to settle for Joe Biden — to millions, passive acceptanc...

June 21, 2020

America's Nest in the Gale

Dr. Margaret Mead, the distinguished American anthropologist, once said, "The greatest gift we can give our children is to teach them to nest in the gale." "To nest in the gale" is to build a haven in the midst of a storm, to s...

January 27, 2020

The Mass Media's Campaign of Moral Panic

In early October, Chuck Todd stared stone-faced into MSNBC's living rooms and intoned gravely, "I don't say this lightly, but let's be frank — a national nightmare is upon us.  The basic rules of our democracy are und...

July 27, 2018

Obama's Dying Vision: The Only Card in the Democratic Deck

As the Democratic Party continues to scrum ahead of the 2018 midterm elections – and ultimately the 2020 presidential election – Democrats of all stripes are eager to see who will be squeezed out of the pack and step up to articulate some...

March 9, 2016

Waiting for Lefty

In the grand leftist tradition of putting lipstick on a pig, Bernie Sanders's democratic socialism is being touted as "a fair capitalism," where Academy Award swag bags of entitlements will be handed out – free health care, free c...

April 8, 2012

Authenticity: Politics' Little Black Dress

As the GOP presidential campaign plays on, the question remains why one of the four current players has yet to put an end to the contest.  The answer lies in a simple but elusive spiritual value: authenticity.  Somewhere along the line, one...

December 24, 2011

Why Atheists Love Christmas

No one knows exactly when or which Christians stole Christmas, but steal it they did, and the reasons were about as subtle as North Korean diplomacy. One can imagine Jesus's early followers gnashing their teeth as the Ancient Romans feasted and revel...