Susan D. Harris

Susan D. Harris


  • America, God, and a Thanksgiving Like No Other

    November 28, 2024

    America, God, and a Thanksgiving Like No Other

    There are, of course, all those personal reasons that it may be exceptionally wonderful — successful cancer treatment, recovery from an accident, or a repaired relationship.  Then again it might be exceptionally hard — the first year...

  • Trump Belongs to the Common Man

    October 22, 2024

    Trump Belongs to the Common Man

    Life will never be the same for Donald J. Trump.  Nowhere was this more evident than the Al Smith Dinner in New York this past Thursday. At first glance, Trump’s delivery seemed a bit lackadaisical compared with the passionate loqu...

  • Does ‘No Contact’ Mean No Accountability?

    September 20, 2024

    Does ‘No Contact’ Mean No Accountability?

    (Author’s note: Dan and Laura are real people going through this situation right now; their names were changed to protect privacy.) A frail, 85-year-old cancer survivor sits in his living room obsessively dialing a number on his landline pho...

  • Trump miracle widens Christian divide

    July 22, 2024

    Trump miracle widens Christian divide

    Imagine being painted as so divisive that some self-professed Christians won’t even say your name on Sunday morning. That’s what happened in some churches in America this last Sunday as pastors tiptoed to the pulpit to give a neutral ...

  • Do Angels Still Walk among Us in a Modern, Messed Up World?

    June 23, 2024

    Do Angels Still Walk among Us in a Modern, Messed Up World?

    Listening to a pastor telling stories of angels as protectors and “ministering spirits” made me realize how many of my own amazing experiences I should document for the inspiration of others. The pastor had recounted a now infamous sto...

  • My Day with Cornell Protestors:  Antisemitism, Denial, and Ignorance

    May 13, 2024

    My Day with Cornell Protestors: Antisemitism, Denial, and Ignorance

    As I walked around taking photographs of the Anti-Israel encampment at Cornell University, one of the participants kept calling after me -- “Julie! Julie, right?  Haven’t we met before?”   It was one of the appointed me...

  • An Aging Puppet

    March 12, 2024

    An Aging Puppet

    The harm President Biden is doing goes far beyond public policy and geopolitical mistakes. The damage has not only stained the presidency, but has permeated American culture and any other culture that has access to audio and video of him. At this poi...

  • January 21, 2024

    The Rapture Doesn’t Mean No Politics

    Roughly one year ago, author and radio host Eric Metaxas sat down with Pastor Gary Hamrick at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Va. to discuss Metaxas’s book, Letter to the American Church.  Pastor Hamrick said the book was important an...

  • January 8, 2024

    The election might be thrown into chaos, but not by Trump

    “I Just Hope We Get Fair Treatment” -- That should have been the takeaway headline from Trump’s remarks this past Friday in Sioux Center, Iowa. Instead, Trump’s remarks were presented to the American people as a possible th...

  • October 28, 2023

    #Dickipedia and the Future of Unbiased Information

    After a brief exchange with social media influencer Ian Miles Cheong in December 2022, Elon Musk sent out one of his craftily concise tweets directed at Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales. Reporter Jon Levine at the New York Post soon followed up...

  • October 27, 2023

    No, Supporting Trump Is Not ‘Idol Worship’

    I am tired of hearing that impassioned support for former president Donald Trump means that one worships him as his savior and hails him as his king.  Personally, I interpret such accusations as an attack on my faith.  What’...

  • October 19, 2023

    Is Israel’s biggest danger from the Biden White House?

    Renowned journalist and Middle East expert Caroline Glick says Israel is now facing dangers from a quarter no one anticipated: the Biden administration. During yesterday’s broadcast of “The Caroline Glick Show“ on JNS TV, Glick o...

  • October 1, 2023

    Head in the Sand Dunes: Cape Cod's Self-Destruction

    If you are an illegal alien lucky enough to be picked for rescue by a wealthy, white, virtue-signaling Massachusetts resident — who also happens to be a cable news talking head and immigration attorney — you may be able to spend the rest ...

  • August 17, 2023

    One Year After Mar-a-Lago, Trump's MAGA Movement Won't Be Silenced

    It's been over a year since the unprecedented raid on former president Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, and nearly a year since I attended Trump's rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — his first rally after the raid. Writing about that day, I c...

  • June 30, 2023

    Good riddance Pride Month

    “What is so rare as a day in June?” asked the poet James Russell Lowell.  A favorite of my mother’s, the poem rejoices in the return of cowslips to the “meadows green” and celebrates birds and blossoms and the ...

  • May 21, 2023

    Dr. Malone: The vaccine-injured have been suppressed, demeaned and gaslit

    Andrea Bocelli’s “Music for Hope” performance at the height of the worldwide COVID lockdowns garnered 25 million views.   Performing at an empty Milan cathedral, it was the cutaway shots to empty cities that were the most gu...

  • May 16, 2023

    Gutfeld: Durham lays the basis for questioning the 2020 election results

    In a segment from Fox News's The Five Monday evening, TV host and political commentator Greg Gutfeld took us to a logical conclusion after he'd examined the final Durham report: why shouldn't we question the 2020 presidential electio...

  • April 19, 2023

    Instead of Taunting Us, Help Us: Who Will Address Jab Concerns and Pregnancy?

    If there is anyone who still thinks there isn’t a political element to the overwhelming thrust to keep the mRNA jabs coming, consider this: A new study reported on the website for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP...

  • April 1, 2023

    NY Citizens' Voter Audit Challenges Blue-State Hegemony

    When you first hear about the group New York Citizens Audit (NYCA), you wonder why it took so long for regular citizens to start scrutinizing their own voting rolls.  It's shocking ,really, even contrary to the American spirit, to think...

  • February 14, 2023

    A hopeful phenomenon in Kentucky

    It's about time we had some good news:  an unexplained something that has absolutely nothing to do with spy balloons or UFOs has broken out at a private Christian university in Wilmore, Kentucky.  It began last Wednesday and h...

  • January 31, 2023

    UK government spied on citizens over COVID views: 'Too Orwellian. Too horrible'

    Monday night, YouTube personality Dr. John Campbell covered a story that he said was "too Orwellian, too horrible." For those not familiar with Campbell, I'll refer to his interview with Russell Brand in February of 20...

  • January 21, 2023

    How the 'vaccine lies' will play out

    The internet is exploding with talk of sudden deaths, vaccine injuries, and altered immune systems — and it's coming from all corners of the world. The National Herald India ran a story in December titled "Covid-19: What explains th...

  • January 7, 2023

    The Disturbing Details Behind the Bird Flu and Egg Prices

    Consumers can take a lot, but when you start raising prices on staples like eggs and milk, a definite din begins to rise from the streets. I knew something was up during a pre-Christmas trip to Costco, where a frenzied mob of shoppers were exasper...

  • January 1, 2023

    New Video Explores How the Pandemic Unveiled the Worst Among Us

    “Someone said things aren’t getting worse.  The veil over society is being removed.” So begins the narration on a recently uploaded YouTube video titled, “The Veil over Society Got Removed for a Moment.”  Cu...

  • November 22, 2022

    Brazil was watching Canada; now it's freezing bank accounts and threatening children

    In some corners of the world, America and Canada no longer stand as beacons of freedom, but as examples of what can happen when democracy is successfully attacked from within. The world has watched protests that revolved around everything from ele...

  • November 7, 2022

    Why Zeldin has to win New York's governorship

    Sunday was crunch time for the man positioning himself to become New York State's next governor.  Lee Zeldin, his wife Diana, and their two girls traveled across the state from Erie County to Monroe, Onondaga, and then Broome Counties a...

  • October 22, 2022

    #LetsVoteBrandon Williams: An Insurgent Republican in a Dead Heat Race for Congress in Upstate New York

    While Governor Kathy Hochul’s lead against Rep. Lee Zeldin seems to be tightening, there are other New York State races to watch. City and State New York magazine identified six congressional races to watch, singling out one as “one of...

  • October 16, 2022

    'Democratic Dames' impersonator has big plans for conservative comedy

    After years of belittling and often offensive comedy directed at both President Trump and the conservatives who support him, it's way past time for conservatives to take the lead...especially in an era where the fruit is ripe for the picking. ...

  • September 6, 2022

    Trump's rally in Pennsylvania was a pivotal moment in history

    Most of President Trump's supporters, including myself, agreed with Mark Levin that the raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was "the worst attack on this Republic in modern history.  Period." That is one reason I joined tho...

  • August 16, 2022

    GOP leaders need a plan to avoid unprecedented civil unrest

    In a well written yet disturbing article over at PJ Media, writer Athena Thorne tells readers, "Yes.  They are going to arrest Donald Trump.  Deal with it."  Presumably, this is advice for nearly 75 m...

  • August 13, 2022

    Don't abandon Trump because you have a DeSantis in your back pocket

    At this writing, a Fox News subheading reads, "EXCLUSIVE: FBI found classified documents during search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence."  Did they think this would bowl me over?  I'm disappointed in Fox for feedi...

  • March 6, 2022

    Is hating everything Russian a constructive form of cancel culture?

    The images from a live-streamed war are heart-rending for the 90% of Americans who use the internet; (up from roughly 50% just twenty years ago.)  Graphic scenes like this video on Twitter, purportedly from Mariupol, Ukraine, are shocking people...

  • April 1, 2018

    The Tumultuous Effect of the LGBT Agenda on One Young Mind

    Sometimes something as mundane as a visit to a drive-through can leave your head splitting from an overdose of culture shock.  No matter which way you turn these days, you're bound to offend someone about something...but did you ever no...

  • March 12, 2018

    A dead nun, Katy Perry, and a social experiment gone awry

    You don't get courtroom scenes more dramatic than this, even in a Perry Mason novel: A nun involved in a years-long legal dispute with pop star Katy Perry over a sprawling 8-acre former convent died in court Friday[.] Acc...

  • February 25, 2018

    On Finding Warnings for America from Rev. Billy Graham

    The old dresser holds my prized possessions.  No jewels or money or a key to a safe deposit box – just simple things that hold a place in my heart. Today, I've opened its weathered drawers to look for an old dress pattern ...

  • January 11, 2018

    Groomed for Paradise or WWIII? The Race for the Red Sea

    While many consider Jerusalem the center of the world, the Red Sea might easily claim the title for second place, as countries from around the world are stumbling over each other to gain (or regain) a foothold on the historic waterway. ...

  • December 31, 2017

    Keep Your Family Close: A New Year's Tale on What Might Have Been

    Every year at this time, traders at the New York Stock Exchange rededicate themselves to carrying on the 100-plus-year tradition of singing "Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie."  Sung on both Christmas and New Year's Eve, it's a y...

  • December 1, 2017

    Kate Steinle and the globalists

    While most decent Americans are lamenting the fact that our court system failed Kate Steinle and her family, I can't help but think of people like George Soros and organizations like the Center for American Progress.  How larg...

  • November 27, 2017

    NBC joins the archbishop of Canterbury for a 'hate Trump' diatribe

    The archbishop of Canterbury justified a possible meeting with President Trump (apparently to appease those who might consider it abhorrent) by rationalizing that he meets lots of people he disagrees with, including mass murderers.  The Most Rev...

  • November 21, 2017

    'Mystery booms' leave many frightened and unnerved

    You're sitting in your living room with your family, watching TV.  Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a loud explosion.  The house shakes.  You run to the window, expecting to see your neighbor's house reduced to a ruinous hea...

  • November 8, 2017

    Molding the Citizens of Tomorrow: Mindfulness and Manipulation

    Here comes the submissive new world of feigned individuality meshed into universal oneness for the sake of the greater good – a world rejecting the moldy, cavernous halls of Christian cathedrals and synagogues while grinning like the Cheshire c...

  • October 15, 2017

    Mexico's Day of the Dead Takes Over Halloween

    It’s practically official: The truly unique American Halloween experience has been forced to incorporate the Mexican Day of the Dead.  Elite globalists made a decision somewhere, somebody flipped a switch, and 2017 sees the dawn of the Day...

  • September 17, 2017

    The Catholic Church’s Push for a Multicultural Utopia Gets Weird

    Motivated by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who they claim was himself a migrant and a refugee; the Catholic Church is set to kick off their “Share the Journey” campaign on September 27, 2017.  With left-leaning Pope Francis at the helm...

  • September 13, 2017

    Why is there no mass mobilization on the right?

    It's infuriating. The message on my phone reads as follows: Hi Derk. This is Laurie volunteering with MoveOn. Last week, Trump announced he's terminating the DACA program – putting 800,000 young people at risk of deportation to count...

  • September 8, 2017

    The Musical Glue of America

    I brought a radio to the hospital bedside of my elderly mother.  It was Saturday night, the night our local classical music station switches over to old country music.  The tunes came pouring out, and included vintage recordings from the 19...

  • September 3, 2017

    Witches: The Most Recent Victimized Minority to Come Out of the Closet

    Move over LGBTQ activists and Black Lives Matter.  The most recent victimized minority to “come out of the closet” and demand acceptance and attention is your local witches’ coven.  That’s right – witchcraft, W...

  • August 27, 2017

    Snobs Beware: I'm Cranking Carmen in My Ten-Year-Old Ford

    Instead of pulling an Elvis and shooting my T.V., I sought relaxation and diversion in classical music.  Eventually I even learned to appreciate opera more than I thought possible. Let snobs beware; I’m cranking Carmen in my ten-year-old F...

  • August 18, 2017

    Itching for a fight: America under siege before Charlottesville

    Long before talk of KKK and neo-Nazis came to Charlottesville, Va., large fights were leaving cities across America battered and bruised.  Spring and summer of 2017 saw an epidemic of what the media simply called "large fights" –...

  • August 14, 2017

    Sabotage and Destruction: From My House to the White House

    There was a time when America wasn’t quite so evil; a time when very few people would boldly lie or sabotage someone else’s work or destroy a career.  Now it seems commonplace…from the living room, to the boardroom, to the cou...

  • July 31, 2017

    Western media eliminating 'Temple Mount'

    There is a subtle repositioning in process by the mainstream media to influence the way people think – or don't think – about the Temple Mount.  In short, we are to think of it primarily as a sacred Islamic Jerusalem shrine that ...

  • June 4, 2017

    The Most Absurd, Needless Cultural Suicide in History

    With a family member seriously ill and confined to different hospitals recently, I’ve sought out hospital chapels to be alone and say prayers.  Or I should say I sought out the areas formerly known as “chapels.”  Now they ...

  • May 14, 2017

    Two of American Thinker’s 'senior readers' grieve for America’s future

    Don and Jeanne Glass live in Arizona. They are in their mid-80s and are loyal readers of American Thinker. They wrote me years ago after reading one of my articles here; and we became great friends. They probably don’t fit the age demographi...

  • May 7, 2017

    Catholics and Muslims: Too Close for Comfort?

    Having been in the hospital on and off for the last few months, even thinking once that I might die, I found myself, as many people do, delving deeper into my faith. I was raised by my parents with a strong Protestant faith, but have long felt aba...

  • May 2, 2017

    Another Day, Another Apology to Muslims

    “Don’t listen to liberals, because the Muslims will cut your heads off.” That’s the comment that warranted the KRQE headline, “Parents accuse Belen priest of making discriminatory comments against Muslims.” Apparen...

  • April 16, 2017

    Growing Up American: Easter, the Story That Can Never Die

    Every year at Easter there are those predictable Puritans who come forward to educate us on that holiday’s pagan origins. In an example from as far back as an 1877 newspaper, an article slyly titled, “Easter Traditions: Interesting Not...

  • April 14, 2017

    A Stranger in My Own Land

    It was my 11th-year social studies class when the teacher gave us some "Xeroxed" papers – still warm, with that "just copied" smell, and repeating that old school refrain: "Take one and pass it back." A square b...

  • April 3, 2017

    Three who kept the communists at bay in popular culture

    When I was young, there were three people of import who held me spellbound when they spoke: William F. Buckley, Jr.; Reverend Billy Graham; and Venerable Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Each one of them seemed to hold within himself a palpable, direct lin...

  • March 31, 2017

    Upstate New York students debate exterminating Jews

    The New York education commissioner defended a local teacher's assignment asking students to argue in favor of exterminating Jews.  It sounds incomprehensible, but MaryEllen Elia, speaking in Syracuse, N.Y. (Onondaga County) this past Thursd...

  • June 19, 2016

    My Promise to Daddy

    Daddy died in January.  For eight long years he struggled with Alzheimer’s.  My mother and I struggled as well, me the most.  My mother being too disabled to get up the stairs (due to spinal stenosis) and necessarily sleeping dow...

  • April 11, 2016

    It's the Little Things: Remembering Western Civilization

    Classical music is a pinnacle of Western civilization that always evokes in me a feeling of prideful human achievement.  Now, seeing Western civilization seeming to scramble in disarray, I sometimes feel a bit mournful when I listen to the great...

  • November 9, 2014

    Destroying God Shows Contempt for Mankind

    “If this article doesn’t blow open a few doors of perception, I don’t know what will,” Dorothy M. Murdock trumpeted on her Facebook page discussing her new article, “New Research Exposes Hidden Relationship Between Jesus...

  • October 31, 2014

    Grappling with the Unseen: Ghosts

    “The greatest thing you have to fear walks on two legs.”  That was what my parents taught us children whenever we got spooked or watched a ghost story on TV.  It was a smart thing to drill into a kid in case he stupidly passed o...

  • September 20, 2014

    Armed and Dangerous: Manhunts and Cop Killers

    The hunt for the 31 year-old suspect who shot two Pennsylvania State Troopers earlier this month, ambushing them near their state police barracks, is eerily reminiscent of two other manhunts in the Northeast. Most recent was the hunt for deranged ...

  • September 11, 2014

    Politicians: Why Aren't You in Mexico Helping Our Marine?

    The wild, lawless country of Mexico took to their illegitimate courtroom for another round of in-your-face international goading.  In short, they flipped the bird to America once again.  It isn’t enough they send us their drug cartels...

  • August 24, 2014

    The British Rapper Suspected of Beheading an American

    It’s no wonder British Prime Minister David Cameron cut his vacation short and rushed back to London:  It was that darned Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary again. British media outlets and the New York Post are reporting that Bary, who rapped unde...

  • August 21, 2014

    Is Obama's Detached Demeanor a National Security Risk?

    I don’t know if something is medically or psychologically wrong with President Obama; whether it’s simply stress or if, God forbid, he has some sort of addiction that is causing him to look like an aging skeleton.  But for some reaso...

  • August 8, 2014

    Ann Coulter's Article Hits Home -- Literally

    Ann Coulter’s recent article “Ebola Doc’s Condition Downgraded to Idiotic” really hit home -- if you’ll excuse the pun. Coulter makes a good argument as she questions why American missionaries don’t stay home an...

  • July 27, 2014

    Growing Up American: Small-Town Dog

    Before dog licenses and leash laws; before doggie mohawks, colored hair and painted toenails; before $100 teeth cleaning, $800 vet bills, and humiliating Halloween costumes, there existed – in almost every sleepy town with a red brick school an...

  • June 6, 2014

    'Good morning. This is D-Day'

    The announcement came from a transatlantic radio-telephone hookup from Supreme Headquarters to all major press services and broadcasting networks in the U.S. A dramatic 10-second pause preceded it.  Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy, General Eisenhower...

  • May 31, 2014

    Michelle Obama's Crazy, Embarrassing Potato Manifesto

    It was eleven o’clock at night and the lady in front of me in the supermarket line was buying jars of baby food and bottles of Pedialyte.  The cashier pulled some of the jars aside and told the lady they weren’t covered under the WIC...

  • May 30, 2014

    Obama and Other Dreamers

    Bringing to mind the movie title, “The Uninvited,” President Obama unexpectedly inserted himself into our lives once again when he introduced the History Channel’s much hyped six-part series, “The World Wars.”  This...

  • May 10, 2014

    Tina Brown Exemplifies the 'War on Women'

    First a clarification to The Daily Beast’s editor-in-chief Tina Brown:  Gargoyles are supposed to ward off evil spirits.  That “appalling cast of tabloid gargoyles” was what the rest of us like to call courageous whistlebl...

  • April 6, 2014

    'Music is God's Voice'

    “Don't forget: music is God's voice,” Brian Wilson reminded us at the induction ceremony of The Beach Boys into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Let’s face it; the Catholic Church has had a lot of bad press over the years....

  • March 25, 2014

    Soylent Green Really Is People

    Imagine it’s 2014. Nazi concentration camps whose smokestacks emitted the by-product of incinerated human remains were eradicated more than sixty years before. The only place one could see such horrors was in old newsreels or science fiction fi...

  • March 13, 2014

    NY-21: The Mysterious Snub of Tea Party's Joe Gilbert

    If you’ve been wondering, New York’s 21st Congressional District is still in a rotten mess. Back in January, Democratic Rep. Bill Owens announced he was retiring.  The New York Times reported: Mr. Owens is the latest Democrat...

  • March 9, 2014

    The Dark Debut of Debbie Wasserman Schultz

    It was a turning point in my life.  Some people remember where they were when Kennedy was killed or Apollo 11 landed on the moon.  I remember where I was the day Terri Schiavo died.  I was crying in a bathroom stall at work, wondering ...

  • February 12, 2014

    Shirley Temple gave us a heartfelt appreciation of innocence

    Was there anything that captured the indomitable spirit of America more than a Shirley Temple movie?  We can proudly boast that we gave the world people like Elvis and Marilyn; but Elvis hip swivel and Marilyn's tasteful-but-overt sexuality made...

  • January 29, 2014

    SOTU: Tuned Out, Turned Off, Dropped Out

    In my house, we watch the State of the Union no matter what we think of the president.  This year, however, you could count me out. I wasn't in the mood for another page from Obama's old KUBARK Torture Manual. My 80 year-old mother decided to ...

  • January 19, 2014

    Growing Up American: Birth, Sex, and Hitler

    It's hard to believe now that sex education is a mainstay of American schooling. It didn't start out well and has only become more controversial with each passing decade. My sex education began when I was 12, though the majority of my classmates had...

  • December 31, 2013

    Hospital Spokesman Dictates Limits For Hope and Prayer

    Sam Singer, spokesman for the Children's Hospital Oakland, has taken it upon himself to dictate the limits of hope and prayer. Singer is one of the players in the gut wrenching saga of Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old Northern California girl who went i...

  • December 27, 2013

    Comedy as a Weapon of the Left

    How is it that leftist mockery of conservatives became a staple of popular culture? One of the major sources of the attitude that now pervades the dominant media of our time is a man named Herbert Lawrence Block, aka Herb Block, aka Herblock. As a ...

  • December 25, 2013

    An Evil World Falls To Its Knees Once Again

    We've all read the articles, seen the documentaries and heard the scholarly opinions on a litany of controversial Christmas subjects: Jesus wasn't born on December 25th; the shepherds weren't tending their flocks in the winter; the Wise Men didn't vi...

  • December 8, 2013

    On Angels and Ministers of Grace

    I was living in a small town that had only two watering holes, one of which was a rundown VFW post.  It was a low point in my life.  I had recently broken up with my fiancé and was on my way to drown my sorrows at a bar at a nearb...

  • October 27, 2013

    A Nightmare in October

    It was late at night and the warm smell of the flame scorching the top of the pumpkin drifted through the air. It was that quiet time when the excitement was over, the roads emptied of cars and trick-or-treaters, and you sat in the darkness with only...

  • October 22, 2013

    Huckabee's 'Bully' Pulpit

    It's bad enough that the Media Research Center found the media overwhelmingly blamed Republicans for the government shutdown. But when Republicans keep blaming Republicans, there's nowhere to go but down. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee did ju...

  • October 12, 2013

    Unholy Alliances

    The morning of October 10th found me happily surfing the internet looking for information on the truckers planned ride to Washington D.C. I went to their website, RidefortheConstitution.org. In a knee-jerk reaction, I clicked on "Chat" at the top of ...

  • September 18, 2013

    Did Navy Yard Shooter Answer his 'Call of Duty'?

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  • September 1, 2013

    The Road to Dystopia

    With misty eyes, I will always remember my parents huddled at a garage sale, literally scraping together all the money they had to buy their youngest child a box set of encyclopedias and the classics of western literature. My mother convincing my fat...

  • July 28, 2013

    What Are Your Neighbors Really Up To?

    Throughout our lives we mistakenly assume our neighbors and acquaintances are going about their lives in a manner similar to our own. It often takes a good hard shaking to wake us to the fact that this is occasionally not the case. That reality ...

  • July 7, 2013

    Growing Up American: Summer Vacation 1939

    The year 1939 was a seminal time for America and the world. Hitler was negotiating a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, while simultaneously planning the invasion of Poland. War was on the horizon, but Americans were struggling to revive them...

  • June 24, 2013

    A Nation Transfixed: High Wires and Prayers

    In 1938, in the midst of the Great Depression and suffering from an ominous foreboding of world war, America suspended the harsh realities of life to tune into a horse race.  A small horse named Seabiscuit, whom the media called "the cast off so...

  • May 5, 2013

    Do You Remember Sweet Betsy from Pike?

    For a long time since our founding, American society shared a common belief system, common morals and societal norms, and a common language.  It no longer does.  While the people who formed the great melting pot of yesteryear maintained asp...

  • April 9, 2013

    Growing Up American: From Church School to Scouting

    So maybe life in the old days wasn't all Ozzy and Harriet, or Wally and Beaver.  In their day, however, we do know that one in ten school-age children were not being diagnosed with ADHD.  That also means two-thirds of those children were...

  • December 31, 2012

    There is No Escape

    Every once in a while we try to escape to one of those rare, childlike, stay-in-your-pajama's, popcorn-munching days when we can block out the fear of a collapsing economy and hide from a repulsive culture that seems to embrace everything that is bad...

  • December 25, 2012

    Growing Up American: Christmas 1941

    While it now seems to us to be Christmas 2012, somewhere behind us it is still Christmas 1941. Imagine you are paddling a canoe downstream. From God's view above, he sees the bend in the stream you've already passed. He sees you now, paddling slowly ...

  • December 2, 2012

    The Last Voice You Hear

    Something always rubs me the wrong way when people tell us that hard times draw us closer together and teach us what is really important in our lives. "We've lost the country, at least we've got each other." There is something inherently defeatist an...

  • October 28, 2012

    Obama and Me: Four Years Later

    Obama.  Every day is Halloween as I hear Vincent Price echoing that name in my mind like a warning in a horror movie...sure to haunt me until my dying day. As we near the election, a graduation speech comes to mind: "We've have had a l...

  • November 7, 2009

    Do I Wake or Sleep?

    It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.  - J. KrishnamurtiRemember the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"? Undoubtedly the only song that successfully rhymed the phrase "children of tha...