November 21, 2024

The working classes have their revenge

The left is more closely aligned with socialism and communism than it is with capitalism, and leftists are inherently self-contradictory in their ideological philosophy.  They demand equality for all yet set themselves up as elitists who st...

September 24, 2024

Tradition, progress, and political polarization

The Left says man is perfectible. The Right says not so, that man is fallen, that whole Garden of Eden thing. Left wants government to make man perfect, but that's impossible and inherently authoritarian. Right believes in building a better futur...

April 9, 2024

Henry VIII and the split between faith and reason

One of the better original series currently streaming on Prime Video is The Tudors that originally ran on Showtime from 2007 to 2010. The production and acting is first class. It's a great portrayal of the compelling reign of Henry VIII...

February 15, 2024

The arrogance of the elites

Wealthy liberal elites in the media and the entertainment industry, e.g., Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough, and all the women on “The View,” not to mention most of Hollywood, by definition can't feel the same as the average American whe...

May 18, 2023

GOP needs to get in the game on election process

There was an extremely important discussion on Hannity Monday night with Ronna MacDaniel and Reince Priebus, current and former Republican National Committee directors, about how the GOP needs to get its act together to stop losin...

May 4, 2023

When are Democrat voters going to wake up and hold their representatives accountable?

It really is bizarre that there are so many people in this country who continue to vote for Democrats every election cycle — at all three levels of government: federal, state, and local — when economic and social problems continue to get ...

February 19, 2023

How the creation of the administrative state led to today's political crisis

Unmasking the Administrate State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand today's political crisis at the federal level.  In a way, it is an ongoing constitutional cris...

January 17, 2023

The Whale is another cheap shot at Christianity

One of the more successful indie movies of the last couple of years is The Whale, now playing in theaters across the country.  The film recently crossed the $10-million mark at the box office.  For those who aren't famili...

December 6, 2022

2020: The Year the Ruling Class Took Control

A reminder to those in today's progressive and woke establishment who forgot about Georgia changing its election laws after the 2020 cycle. The world went ballistic, claiming it to be racist voter suppression and Jim Crow 2.0.  Major League ...

November 7, 2022

Vote as if your children's future depended on it

No, democracy isn't on the ballot, as Biden and other high-profile Democrats have been espousing lately in order to come up with some kind of narrative undecided voters might fall for. What's really on the ballot is inflation, sky-high food a...

October 17, 2022

The Great Disrupter crashed the DC Establishment party, and they hate him for it

As a Baby-Boomer, I've been hearing about intractable problems like urban poverty and crime along with a broken public education system since the sixties, messages always delivered by the political, media, and academic establishment.  Then o...

September 12, 2022

How the personal becoming political turned into a threat to the Republic

The left has made the personal political by politicizing everything.  With the political personal, feelings are now more important than facts. What is so important about this is that the political left has pulled off a psychological...

August 26, 2022

Boomers, Failed Idealism, and the Triumph of the Ruling Class

At one point, Baby Boomers were all about bucking the system and speaking truth to power. However, now that most of the clout inside the major institutions is held by members of that generation, they are making sure it stays that way through heavy-ha...

July 26, 2022

Thanks to Biden, the Modern Liberal Project is Dead

If there is a silver lining to the disaster that is Biden's presidency, it's that it has brought into sharp focus all that's wrong with the Democrat Party. It's culminating in trajectories that began as far back as the Sixties that ga...

July 5, 2022

Democrats don't want anyone to succeed

Virtually every top Democrat these days is projecting onto everyone criticizing their elitism exactly who they are and what they've been doing for decades. Today's liberalism has moved farther and farther from its modern roots that began w...

June 12, 2022

Postmodernism promises an ugly future

Modernism was founded on rationalism and reason, which allowed for the construction of a new and orderly society.  The seeds of its eventual destruction were also planted at the beginning, because it wasn't fully grounded by moral struc...

June 9, 2022

The second civil war is already underway

There is a second civil war going on, just without the shooting. This one is between two factions of elected politicians in D.C. locked in a death match that's never happened before.  It is one that began roughly 12 years ago during ...

June 1, 2022

Two morality tales: Biden and Trump

Joe Biden has zero moral authority — not on mass shootings, not on abortions, not on anything. Why?  Because he and his coterie of radicals are knowingly crushing all people across all classes and particularly across the identity a...

March 25, 2022

America's real divisions

The real divisions in the country are not what most everyone assumes them to be, such as that of right and left. No, they are the upper and lower classes versus the middle, working, and rural classes.  Lower classes mostly vote for Democ...

January 30, 2022

'The Velvet Queen' shows how materialism has replaced Christianity and authentic spirituality

Everyone for the most part loves a clean and beautiful environment and doesn't want to see it degraded while protecting the habitats of wild animals. The problem that's so much the case of liberalism and the militant environmentalism of today...

December 26, 2021

The Christian Paradox

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14) It's been said that the most important event in human history w...

November 22, 2021

Pulling back the Democrat curtain

By definition, the Dems are paternalistic because everything they do, like a lot of the so-called social programs in the Build Back Better Act, are designed for the government to provide 'services' normally reserved for parents, and therefore...

October 28, 2021

Progressivism can be hazardous to your health

There are so many ways progressivism has become hazardous to a person's health that it's hard to figure out where to begin.  Progressive policies range from being soft on crime to open borders to defunding the police to transgenderi...

September 13, 2021

In spirit, Trump is still president

Does anyone think it's a little bizarre that all businesses with 100 employees or more have been mandated to make all their employees get vaccinated when most of them still have their employees working remotely? And why 100 employees? Is there a ...

May 6, 2021

If men were angels

Why liberalism will always be coercive and authoritarian is really not too difficult to understand.  Equality must be enforced by a political entity, which by definition is an unequal playing field that exerts power from above on those belo...

April 18, 2021

One guess as to how the Chauvin-Floyd trial might end

The following are some basic facts established during the three-week trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.  Both sides have rested their cases, and Chauvin's defense lawyer, Eric Nelson, is preparing his closing argumen...

April 2, 2021

George Floyd and the Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect, simply put, is the proposition that small events can trigger and lead to much larger and significant events.  It is derived from the idea of a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a tornado elsewhere in the wo...

March 22, 2021

Liberalism is in its death throes

Out-of-control cancel culture, borders open again to illegal immigration, and the Democrat majorities in Congress attempting to impose one-party rule on the country are nothing less than the symptoms of a dying ideology, a modern liberalism that has ...

March 14, 2021

4D chess, hidden agendas, and one-party rule

Contemporary liberalism is a totally bankrupt ideology that has been proven over time its inability to solve real problems. Therefore, to hide its long-running failures, liberalism and, more specifically the Democrat party, have been reduced to manip...

December 29, 2020

The Democrats' Road to Hell

The ruling political class in Washington D.C. is always making matters worse through what appear to be appropriate solutions for serious problems facing the country. Then when they don't work out as advertised many years after they've been im...

November 26, 2020

'Hillbilly Elegy' effectively addresses the crisis of modernity

The movie Hillbilly Elegy is an outstanding portrayal of what life is like for many in the white working class. I was a little apprehensive since I read the book by J.D. Vance and really enjoyed it, but all of the three re...

November 8, 2020

How much longer can America last like this?

With the 2020 presidential election in complete chaos, it can now be said that virtually every institution in the country has broken down and has no credibility left to its name.  This is the logical conclusion to relativism and the destruc...

September 27, 2020

Crybabies and sore losers: Democrats throwing temper tantrums on an epic scale

Democrats are always bending the rules that will eventually destroy them in order to gain political advantage with the objective of gaining and maintaining political power.  Whenever something doesn't go their way, like losing the presi...

July 15, 2020

The Individual Versus the Collective

Once you give the government the power to elevate one group over another, regardless of the reason, you are one step closer to dictatorship. This is why the left focuses only on the rights of the collective that's always based on and enforced by ...

July 2, 2020

How hyperindividualism leads to authoritarianism

Individualism grew out of Christianity, originating with the biblical idea that every single human soul is equal in the eyes of God and every single soul will be saved through faith in the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  It t...

June 11, 2020

The job of a cop is extremely tough

Being a cop has to be one of the hardest, most thankless jobs in the world.  It also requires, along with firemen, the highest degree of sacrifice by being first responders in extremely dangerous situations.  And keep in mind that...

May 5, 2020

The end of history? It's only getting started (again)

Francis Fukuyama asserted in The End of History and the Last Man (1992) that liberalism in its classical iteration came out on top of the battles with the two other "isms" of the 20th century, fascism and communism.  The...

March 17, 2020

How Coronavirus Will Strengthen Trump's 2020 Campaign

While the mainstream media have been running around yelling that the sky is falling and the left is criticizing Trump for not acting fast enough in curtailing the spread of the coronavirus, here's how it will end up helping Trump during his re-el...

March 2, 2020

Coronavirus: Stay Calm and Avoid the Hype

There is a meme that has been going viral on Facebook, saying, "Stay calm and wash your hands" with regard to the coronavirus scare.  That is certainly good advice.  It might be a good follow-up to caution those on socia...

December 29, 2019

Blue-Collar Workers are Now Solidly Republican

Barack Obama squandered the opportunity of a lifetime to become a transformational president. That was his signature ambition, obvious enough in his infamous remarks about how he would fundamentally transform the country. He ...

November 5, 2019

Why the House won't vote for impeachment

Although the Democrats may have done a dumb thing by initiating an impeachment process, they aren't so stupid as to damage their electoral prospects as well as their credibility in the wake of the abject failure of the Mueller investigation....

October 14, 2019

Is Joker a conservative movie?

Joker, with the title character played by Joaquin Phoenix, who has proven in this role that he is in a league of his own in the acting world, is fundamentally a conservative movie because the Joker represents the vast middle and working classes who h...

September 28, 2019

The 800-pound gorilla in the impeachment room

The timing of the whole fake impeachment scandal that's been manufactured once again by Deep State actors is incredibly suspect.  As soon as the Russia Collusion Hoax was put to bed, this whistleblower complaint comes, alleging that Pre...

August 5, 2019

Environmental alarmism behind El Paso shootings

The El Paso shooter is a product of years, if not decades, of environmentalist hysteria.  When a person carefully reads his manifesto, it is clear he's nothing more than a version of the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the man who tried s...

June 19, 2019

Manufactured Reality: When Everything Becomes Fake

If Plato were to come back today and see for himself what the modern world has become, he would be amazed at how accurate his description of reality was with his Allegory of the Cave. In it, he wrote that everything we see is just like shadows t...

May 14, 2019

The Disposability of Liberalism

A recent article dealt with the fiftieth anniversary of The Who's rock opera Tommy: "The Who's Tommy at Fifty."  Tommy still excites me and makes me shake my head in wonder at how a group of early twenty-somethings could p...

March 17, 2019

A Tale of Two Americas in 1969: Apollo 11 and Woodstock

Coming up this July and August are the 50th anniversaries of two seminal events that highlight and distinguish the two visions of American that still define in many ways the country as it is today.  Those two events were the moon landi...

October 18, 2018

The root of where liberals and conservatives diverge

Liberalism has no limiting principles, especially when it comes to growing the size and scope of government and the welfare state.  Conservatism, on the other hand, wants the economy to grow unimpeded.  The only obstacle in its wa...

August 28, 2018

No foundation, no morals

There is an intrinsic problem with secular humanism, a clever euphemism for materialism and atheism, that submits that there is no transcendent deity responsible for the creation of the universe, humanity, and morality.  It is the phil...

July 9, 2018

Nature is conservative

Nature imposes limitations on humanity, and there are clearly consequences, almost always not good, when they are exceeded.  This basically explains the difference between conservatives and liberals.  Liberals seek personal l...

June 28, 2018

'Hotel California' and America's decomposing values

"Hotel California," the signature song by the Eagles and probably their most popular, is a stinging critique and indictment of the American dream and the dominant consumer culture.  There's a certain irony in th...

May 31, 2018

Is Liberalism a Victim of Its Own Success?

One doesn't even know where to begin in reviewing the book Why Liberalism Failed: What Happens When a Political Philosophy and Ideology Becomes the Victim of Its Own Success by Patrick Deneen.  It is a tour de force that ...

April 21, 2018

A Quiet Place: A subversive conservative and Christian movie

Warning: Major spoilers ahead! I suspect that the majority of people who have seen A Quiet Place went into the theater anticipating a thrilling horror story that gives the usual rush of being scared out of one's seat. But...

April 1, 2018

Narcissism, materialism, and the rejection of God

If you are an atheist, then, by definition, you are a materialist, because you reject and believe only in the god of the material self that has no soul.  This is why all self-help and New Age "religions" are man-made spi...

March 5, 2018

Is There a Link Between Progressivism and Depression?

The basic philosophy of progressivism is that both man and society are perfectible. Conservatism has been distorted and smeared over the years, but at its most elemental it is a philosophy of “small is better” and is reflected in politics...

November 25, 2017

The problem with liberalism: It has no limiting principles.

At its core, liberalism is an incoherent, value-free ad hoc ideology that doesn't promulgate any enduring ideas that stand the test of time.  It has no underlying moral foundation to support its ideas other than pilfering those rooted in Jud...

November 5, 2017

The end of identity politics: Liberals eating their own

The final nail in the coffin of identity politics just might have been hammered home by the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal. It appears that nearly every day, a new accusation or allegation is happening against one of the many leftist Hollywood elites w...

August 31, 2017

The Black Church and the Democratic Party: Unholy Alliance or Doublethink?

Something interesting happened to me the other day.  The doorbell rang, and I thought it was a delivery I was expecting, but who was there but two elegant black ladies standing at my front door?  I knew right away why they were there, ...

August 24, 2017

Secular humanism: The tie that binds

On August 3, Robert Curry wrote a rebuttal, "Defending the Founders and the (American) Enlightenment," to my commentary "Modernity and the Secularization of Reason."  I'd like to answer by making some additional points to...

July 30, 2017

Modernity and the Secularization of Reason

Christ revolutionized the world by introducing the concept of the dignity of every person no matter where they stood in societal order. This led to the eventual creation of individual identity that culminated during the Enlightenment with Descartes...

July 11, 2017

The next evolution in personhood

The concept of the individual continues to change over time, although few would notice or really care, since it is such a slow process. A simple analysis can be described this way.  In pre-modern times, people had a soul.  In modern time...

July 5, 2017

The era of our discontent

Progress and the demand to always be improving create perpetual discontent because the present and the status quo are never good enough.  Perfectionism and obsessive control are the unintended consequences, as is the disconnect between contentme...

June 28, 2017

Who Is the Real Radical?

Recently posted on the Drudge Report was an article called "Rise of the Radical Nuns," linked to NationalPost.com.  It's about an orthodox order of Catholic nuns called "The Sisters of Life," located in Toronto,...

June 15, 2017

The Alexandria shooting: A silver lining?

The shooting of congressional Republicans will be extremely beneficial to Trump and his agenda, and for Republicans in the next two elections cycles in 2018 and 2020. What the shooter didn't have in mind besides wanting to kill as many Republi...

June 6, 2017

A major flaw in liberal utopianism

The following is a thought experiment – maybe a little over the top, but one that should illustrate how liberals and their incessant demands for equality and diversity in the end will lead to the exact opposite of their utopian vision. When ...

May 2, 2017

A cold civil war

Back in January, conservative columnist Dennis Prager gave his take on the state of the union – and it was not good.  The piece, titled "America's Second Civil War," begins with the following: It is time for our society ...

April 12, 2017

Opioids and 'the Good Life'

Lately there’s been a great deal of media coverage of the opioid crisis that is going on in the country. It is commonly referred to as a "'disease' along with alcoholism and drug abuse. This seems to be an egregious example...

April 5, 2017

Where do I go to find the roots of liberal morality?

Since liberalism is dominant in the media, academia, and Hollywood, liberals' holier-than-thou message, sent out on a near daily basis, is that they are the compassionate ones and conservatives are the evil ones. I would be interested in knowi...

March 29, 2017

Where the Declaration of Independence went wrong

The first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence reads as follows: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,...

March 15, 2017

A Preview of Liberalism’s End Point

Liberals always stake their claim to the moral high ground, or to put it another way, they believe they own the moral high ground. If this were true, and it most certainly is not, then they would have to believe in biblical morality and authority. Th...

February 25, 2017

Liberal Katy Perry unwittingly sings a conservative message

Watching the Grammy Awards show a few weeks ago, I enjoyed the performance by Katy Perry singing her new hit song, "Chained to the Rhythm."  Although I didn't recognize her at first in her blonde wig and rose-colored glasses (a nod...

January 15, 2017

La La Land: A secret conservative movie?

There is a certain irony that the movie La La Land, at its core, it is a movie based on conservative values such as the preservation and timelessness of tradition, obligation, and self-sacrifice.  They may seem somewhat clichéd to some, b...

November 22, 2016

Who gets the credit for Trump's victory? The Tea Party.

There have been many excellent post-election analyses since Trump's improbable win, most of have which have identified the disaffected working class and the failure of the Democrats' politically correct identity politics as the driving f...

October 4, 2016

If Hillary wins...

If Hillary Clinton should win the presidency on November 8, for all intents and purposes, it's over for the country. This might be hyperbole, but how can one not look at it any other way?  She will absolutely be the third term of Obama, a...

September 29, 2016

The progressive way of growing the economy

Something overlooked in the immigration debate is that the huge numbers of illegal immigrants allowed into the country over the years are very good for business.  Rather than cutting taxes and regulations, the progressive solution is to sim...

September 4, 2016

Is Conservatism the New Counterculture?

If I had to guess, being hip began around the time of Prohibition when drinking went underground and it became a form of rebellion in order to stick it in the nose of the government by going to the local speakeasy on a regular basis. Once Prohib...

July 24, 2016

Liberalism's identity politics is destroying the country

Identity politics, also known as Straw Man Politics, is the creation of  a fictitious adversary, victim, or problem in order to create the impression that I am the one who can create equality, alleviate oppression, or solve the problem...

July 10, 2016

The House that Liberalism Built

Liberalism has evolved to the point where it now dominates virtually every segment of American society: media, academia, entertainment and now even religion and corporate America. The Protestant Church has basically become a wing of the Democratic Pa...

June 27, 2016

Federal Government, Inc.

A good way to look at the political situation today is that the federal government has become the largest corporation in the world, where Americans are both consumers of their products and stockholders at the same time.  Think of it as Federal G...

June 22, 2016

The hidden relationship between progressivism and capitialism

Progressivism is always criticized for being wrong in many ways, but there is one element to it that is often missed.  It deserves criticism, but it also is something that actually explains why it is adopted by so many.  And that element is...

March 21, 2016

Ex Machina: A Review

Ex Machina, released in 2015 and now available on DVD and BluRay, may be the best movie about artificial intelligence to come along in years.  It gives an outstanding portrayal of a possible A.I. revolution in all of its ethical and philosophica...

October 4, 2015

What if the Oregon shooter had been a Christian?

One has to wonder what the outcome would have been if the shooter in Oregon who killed 13 people had been a fundamentalist Christian in the mold of Kim Davis.  And what if that person, rather than asking people their religion, had asked them if ...

September 20, 2015

Can the media prove that Obama is a Christian?

Something happened on Special Report with Brett Baier on Fox this past Friday evening that really opened my eyes as to how political correctness has infected even the conservative-leaning pundits that mostly inhabit Baier's show.  ...

September 6, 2015

The origins of extreme political polarization, and who is responsible

Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America's Postwar Political Order by James Pierson may be one of the best books ever written on American political history.  It traces the evolution of both political parties from the afterma...

September 2, 2015

Snake Oil Salesman, High Priest of Modernity, or Both?

Wayne Dyer, who died a few days ago, is the epitome of the high priests of the secular age, such as Tony Robbins and Marianne Williamson, who surreptitiously blend the language of Christianity into their pitch with seductive messages rooted...

July 6, 2015

The Party of the Head vs. the Party of the Heart

Labeling your political opponents as unfeeling and uncaring is a little like the trick question "when did you stop beating your wife?" The only difference is that it's not difficult to refute the premise of the trick question but next t...

June 17, 2015

An end to racism

It appears that Rachel Dolezal may have unwittingly come upon a way to end racism in the country once and for all. With her claim that she's transracial, having identified as a black person since the age of five, all blacks who find it i...

April 12, 2015

Federal Government Just Can't Keep its Hands to Itself

The Federal government has evolved from protecting basic freedoms to being a parasite. When it sees something as big and powerful as the internet, the feds naturally wants to get their hands on it, not just to control it but maybe even more impo...

March 29, 2015

Liberal Lawyers: Follow the Money

I have some friends on Facebook who are liberal lawyers whom I periodically get into debates with after I post something that incites them to reflexively respond. The funny thing is that debating them is like shooting fish in a barrel. Their argument...

March 1, 2015

Republicans need to learn how to turn the tables on the MSM

The Republicans have a serious messaging problem. Either they are totally clueless when it comes to public relations or they're just "Democrat Lites" as they've been described over the years. With the issue of funding h...

January 11, 2015

Obama: All Talk and No Action

Here is a very simple analogy: the West are the parents and radical Islam is the trouble-making son. Whenever the son misbehaves, the parents respond with a lecture about the need to behave in a proper manner but don't punish the wayward boy for ...

January 4, 2015

John Roberts Gets a Mulligan: Will He Kill Obamacare This Time Around?

Last year was when Obamacare was finally exposed as one big lie greasing the skids for the collapse of Progressivism. And we should thank two people. First should be Chief Justice John Roberts, since after all he saved entire the entir...

November 23, 2014

The Zelig Presidency

For those familiar with Woody Allen movies, one of his more unusual ones was Zelig, a movie done in a black & white, semi-documentary form about a man played by Woody Allen who has a rare chameleon-like disorder where he takes on the physical and...

November 9, 2014

Why Hillary won't run

Hillary will not run for president in 2016 for a variety of reasons.  The midterm massacre sends a strong signal that the electorate is fed up with liberal policies and politics, and Hillary would essentially be the third term of Obama. The ...

September 15, 2014

Obama Betrays the Constitution, his Voters and Tradition

On September 11, Bruce Ackerman, a Yale professor of law and political science, had an opinion piece published in the New York Times fittingly titled "Obama Betrays the Constitution".  Ackerman describes how Obama has broken with th...