June 8, 2024

No more than spectators?

The world has always been divided between decent and indecent, good and evil. Throughout history a battle has raged pitting the noble against the ignoble. All great literature is basically an illustration of the tension involved between the crea...

February 17, 2024

A pair of dreamers

Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum (WEF) in January of 1971. His nonprofit foundation was built on a dream of world governance. In October of the same year, John Lennon released his hit song “Imagine.” Schwab should have a...

February 10, 2024

About that Kobe Bryant statue ...

You can learn a lot about a culture through its statuary. In fact, statuary is a guide to what and whom the society values most. Walk through any park in Europe and America and the monuments to the most distinguished persons (almost all men) ...

February 1, 2024

Income inequality then, income inequality now

Let’s face it: income inequality in our country has gotten out of hand.  I know that these words sound like a Marxists slogan.  Marxists will always grab at a shred of truth to push their destructive economic policies in the...

March 6, 2022

The medical industrial complex arises

As the 72-year-old son of an M.D., I am in a good position to comment on the profound changes we have witnessed in the last 60 years or so. In the sixties, medicine was a product dispensed mostly through the offices of individual practitioners....

June 8, 2019

Another inconvenient truth

Let's do a simple mental exercise before we get to the point.  Visualize a sphere of solid matter, and then subtract fourteen hundredths of one percent.  Is the reduced sphere at all different in appearance?  Of cour...

March 4, 2016

The Terminator and the Trumpinator

There is a well-known saying that goes like this: “The way California goes, so goes the nation.”  This saying is about to be validated once again.  The parallels between the special recall election of Gray Davis in 2003 and the ...

February 29, 2016

American Caesarism

Today there is a palpable sentiment among the American people that we have reached a turning point both as a nation and as a culture.  The fact is that having elected Barack Obama and installed his transformative agenda we have already passed th...

May 9, 2013

Diversity Examined

I recently spotted a "Diversity is America" bumper sticker and it got me to thinking. Is that right? Well, there is no doubt we are a nation of immigrants representing all races, nations and creeds. Since the word diverse means "different" or "varied...

January 14, 2013

We Await our Caesar

Civilized cultures are mortal; they have a predetermined life span just like an organism. There are numerous examples from antiquity whose skeletal remains are still with us. Each example represents a unique metaphysical enterprise that has expired. ...

May 31, 2010

When Masculine Virtues Go Out of Fashion

The culture war begun in the sixties has, in large part, been won by the left. Nowhere is this clearer than in the feminization of men. The virtues of manhood which had been extolled and celebrated throughout the middle ages right up to the 1950s hav...

April 9, 2009

The End of Fair Elections?

Anyone who believes Hugo Chavez's presidency is the result of a free and fair election should stop reading and go protest against global warming.  For the rest of us, it may come as a surprise to some; we may have witnessed the last free and fai...