Trevor Thomas

Trevor Thomas


  • Sincere Christians Should Never Vote for a Democrat

    August 17, 2024

    Sincere Christians Should Never Vote for a Democrat

    I’ve reached that stage of life where, on occasion, I’m asked for life advice.  My best, most succinct answer is this: follow Jesus, and don’t vote for Democrats.  The reason for the former part of my statement i...

  • Democrats: The George Costanza of politics

    July 23, 2024

    Democrats: The George Costanza of politics

    Oh, what might have been! The stunning escapade of events that have plagued the Democrat Party the past several weeks could’ve largely been avoided if only Democrats trafficked more frequently in the truth. For example, if the passionate cascad...

  • ‘Democracy’ means little to those who’ve made a god of government

    July 22, 2024

    ‘Democracy’ means little to those who’ve made a god of government

    Say it ain’t so! Joe is no mo’! At long last—a mere 107 days from the election—the Democrats have abandoned democracy and have concluded that their “party leaders” (Barack Obama’s words) will decide who will ...

  • Of Course Biden Won the Rigged Democrat Primaries

    July 11, 2024

    Of Course Biden Won the Rigged Democrat Primaries

    In an effort to stave off the calls for him to drop out of the race for President, in a letter to congressional Democrats, Joe Biden boldly declared, We had a Democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively. I rec...

  • The main reason Joe Biden should not be president

    July 9, 2024

    The main reason Joe Biden should not be president

    It didn’t work.  Joe Biden’s friendly 22-minute interview with George Stephanopolous did little to nothing to quell the calls from Democrats that Biden should drop out of the race for U.S. president. This should come as no su...

  • Littered With Lies

    July 1, 2024

    Littered With Lies

    The day after Joe Biden turned in the horrific debate performance that many of us knew was coming, and after countless Democrat apparatchiks finally had to admit what many of us have long known -- that Joe Biden is unfit to serve as U.S. President --...

  • USPS going off the rails in Georgia

    April 5, 2024

    USPS going off the rails in Georgia

    Our 15-year-old son Noah is a baseball player.  Baseball gear today can be quite expensive. A new (and sometimes even used!) quality bat or glove alone can easily cost several hundred dollars.  For many years now, we’ve used Christmas...

  • An American Family Lives Debt-Free

    February 25, 2024

    An American Family Lives Debt-Free

    In 2013, my wife Michelle and I published Debt-Free Living in a Debt-Filled World.  Since we’re more than a decade removed from that publishing, and as we are now a quarter of a century into our debt-free journey, we thought it was ti...

  • January 15, 2024

    Fani Willis and the corrupt mainstream media

    Last week contained more than one terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. On Monday, January 8th, Ashleigh Merchant, lawyer for Michael Roman (one of the 18 Trump co-defendants in The State of Georgi...

  • December 25, 2023

    'The Rightful King Has Landed'

    During this season it is often said that the Christmas Story, the story of the birth of Jesus, is “the greatest story ever told.” I believe that the Christmas Story is a beginning of the greatest story ever told. We must never forget t...

  • December 12, 2023

    Bidenflation Right Before Your Eyes

    The economy is the single most concerning political issue for Americans. If you need a source other than your eyes and ears, there are multiple polling agencies, including Gallup and Pew, that reveal this to be the case. More specifically, inflati...

  • September 10, 2023

    Does Marriage Equal Happiness?

    New research on marriage has drawn significant attention, leading to several widely read articles on the matter. Early last month, at UnHerd, in a piece entitled “The best predictor of happiness in America? Marriage” authors W. Bradford W...

  • August 8, 2023

    Leftist hypocrisy at the Idaho Statesman

    The editorial board of the Idaho Statesman — Scott McIntosh, Bryan Clark, Chadd Cripe, Dana Oland, Jim Keyser, and Mary Rohlfing — recently published an opinion piece condemning the actions of Christian organizations H...

  • June 11, 2023

    Don't Trust Corporations with Your Charity

    When it comes to in-person shopping, one of the more frequent complaints I've encountered recently concerns self-checkout registers.  It seems many people despise using them.  I do not.  Whether Kroger, Walmart, Lowe...

  • June 8, 2023

    The SPLC hates the truth

    The left-wing propaganda group known as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has come out with its annual "Year in Hate and Extremism" report.  This latest report is for 2022.  This year's report supposedly documen...

  • June 2, 2023

    ‘Pride’ is Nothing to Celebrate

    In his seminal work Mere Christianity, the great Christian apologist C.S. Lewis describes “pride” as “the Great Sin,” “the essential vice,” “the utmost evil.” Lewis concludes, Unchastity, anger, gr...

  • May 28, 2023

    Transgenderism and its War on Truth

    In all the conversation that is prevalent throughout the Earth today, there is almost nothing further from the truth than the absurd and evil notion that men can become women, and that women can become men, or similarly, the idea that sex (or “...

  • May 16, 2023

    Never forget the COVID fanatics

    Never forget how wrong they were on virtually everything concerning COVID-19.  From lockdowns to masks, social distancing, testing, vaccines, and so on, the American left — especially those in the me...

  • April 9, 2023

    To Rightly Grasp the Resurrection, One Must First Understand Sin

    In one of my favorite songs—Worlds Apart by Jars of Clay—singing of the death of Jesus, the lyrics ask (at about the 2:29 mark in the linked video) “Did you really have to die for me?” The answer, of course, is a resounding ...

  • March 19, 2023

    Media laying on the transgender propaganda thick

    As numerous right-minded (note: those not led by Democrats!) states take legal steps — my home state of Georgia being one of those — to protect children from radical and irreversible medical "transgender" procedures, this past F...

  • March 16, 2023

    January 6 Doesn't Shine a Candle to COVID

    With House speaker Kevin McCarthy's release of thousands of hours of Capitol surveillance video footage to Tucker Carlson, and Carlson's subsequent airing of the footage on his popular Fox News show, it's more clear now than ever: what th...

  • March 6, 2023

    Tucker Carlson Calls Out the ‘Professional Christians’

    In one of his monologues last week, Tucker Carlson called Merrick Garland “the weakest attorney general” in American history. Tucker added, “Merrick Garland has presided over the most aggressive attack on civil liberties, in particu...

  • February 10, 2023

    Those Abandoning Blue States Should Abandon Democrats, Too

    A recent New York Post article declared that, in a "staggering exodus," in 2022, more residents of New York moved to Florida "than any other year in history."  The article reveals, A staggering 64,577 Empire Staters...

  • December 25, 2022

    Christmas and the war on Christmas

    As the parents of four children (ages 20, 18, 16, and 14), my wife and I have had many years of joyous celebration at Christmas time. Interestingly, we’ve done this without ever “doing” Santa Claus. In other words, we have never...

  • December 15, 2022

    In the Marriage Debate, Better Tears Now Than Tears Later

    While passionately pleading with her U.S. House colleagues to reject the wicked, and grossly misnamed, “Respect for Marriage Act,” (RFMA) GOP Representative [Rep.] Vicki Hartzler (MO) broke down in tears: Despite her pleas, the Hou...

  • November 26, 2022

    The 'Transgender' Lie: How We Got Here

    In The American Conservative recently — in a piece entitled "The Coming Storm over Trans 'Tuskegee Experiment'" — Rod Dreher highlights a telling Twitter thread that reveals the tremendous angst and anger of a dad whose ...

  • November 24, 2022

    America’s First Thanksgiving

    On May 14, 1607, headed by a seven-man council that included John Smith, 144 men settled Jamestown. Because of their misguided efforts, it was a disaster from the beginning. These men battled the elements, disease, Indians, starvation, and one anothe...

  • October 17, 2022

    Google clamps down (updated)

    I’m surprised that it took this long.  After returning from another fall baseball game with my just turned 14-year-old son this past weekend, I popped open my laptop to check my website, and I encountered the message below: Of ...

  • October 2, 2022

    Hurricane Ian reveals some shortcomings in weather prediction

    In the days prior to hurricane Ian's devastating landfall, millions of Americans were anxiously poring over Ian's forecasted "cone" and "spaghetti" models.  These models, and the accompanying forecasts, played a ...

  • September 10, 2022

    Never Forget the COVID Fascists

    Recent weeks have made it clear that Democrats don’t know fascism, even when it is staring back at them. On fascism, the Father of Fascism, Benito Mussolini, wrote: “The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, i...

  • July 13, 2022

    Democrat Policies Will Create More Pregnant 10-Year-Olds

    The end of Roe v. Wade, while a tremendous constitutional victory, is far from enough to end abortion in America. Many states in the U.S. will see just as many abortions -- if not more -- as they would have if Roe had never been overturned....

  • July 2, 2022

    Like Roe, Obergefell needs to go

    In overturning the appalling judicial activism of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS), which, in its infamous Roe v. Wade decision, legalized abortion at any stage of pregnancy throughout the U.S., the current SCOTUS writes: The Constitution ma...

  • June 19, 2022

    Advice on Fatherhood

    The words here are dedicated to all the current and future fathers out there, especially to my three sons, Caleb, Jesse, and Noah, and to my future son-in-law.  I'm 52 (soon to be 53) years old.  I've been married to my wi...

  • June 16, 2022

    On Gun Control and Mental Health, Who Decides Who's Crazy?

    The latest bipartisan "gun control" legislative proposal reeks of "Do-Somethingism."  Again, given the rampant disasters wrought from the numerous foolish policies enacted due to our bout with COVID-19, we should've ...

  • June 12, 2022

    It's 'Pride' Month Again

    As you almost certainly well know by now, it’s Pervert -- aka “Pride” -- Month again. Whenever you hear “Pride Month,” remember, this is the kind of thing the LGBTMYNAMISLEGION apologists take “pride” in (war...

  • May 28, 2022

    Mass shootings: Don't confuse madness with evil

    After the evil perpetuated at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in a column entitled "Don't Surrender to Do-Somethingism on Guns," David Harsanyi at The Federalist is mostly correct when he writes, "Law-abiding Americans hav...

  • May 6, 2022

    Abortion and the Evils of the Modern Left

    For decades, the American left has furthered its agenda via leftists on U.S. courts.  Thus, in order to get their way on a wide array of issues — abortion, marriage, LGBT issues, immigration, and the like — Democrats have not ha...

  • April 7, 2022

    Back when comedians made jokes about Democrats...

    And back when Saturday Night Live was actually (sometimes) funny:   A joke in 1978 is fiscal policy today pic.twitter.com/WALIgGpHH1 — Nomad Nero (@Adventure_Nero) April 3, 2022 The inflation rate in 1978 was 7....

  • February 24, 2022

    Why is Fox News promoting the left's gender propaganda?

    On Tuesday of this week, Megan Fox at PJ Media reported on Fox News's correspondent Bill Melugin's somewhat foolish account of child rapist James Tubbs.  While Melugin gets the heinous nature of Tubbs's crime and the terrible re...

  • January 31, 2022

    New study: Lockdowns didn't work

    A little over a year ago, I wrote: [I]t is now clear that, whatever health risks the Wuhan virus presents, they pale in comparison to the social, mental, economic, and spiritual carnage wrought by the foolish political actions — and s...

  • January 8, 2022

    Even SCOTUS leftists have to lie to further the left's Wuhan virus narrative

    Make no mistake about it: leftists lie.  This is especially true of leftists in politics and the media.  In fact, on most any matter dear to the left's perverse agenda, one is safer assuming that the leftist you're he...

  • December 25, 2021

    God's Christmas Gift

    As the parents of four teenagers (ages 19, 17, 15, and 13), my wife and I have had many years of joyous celebration at Christmastime.  Interestingly, we've done this without ever "doing" Santa Claus.  In other words,...

  • December 21, 2021

    On omicron, Joe Biden and his ilk will again be proven liars

    Last week, in a coordinated effort, Joe Biden's White House issued a foolishly disturbing message that he seems certain to repeat today.  On December 16, Biden declared: Due to the steps we've taken, Omicron has not yet sp...

  • December 16, 2021

    Professional sports again prove the folly of vaccines and 'COVID protocols'

    Some of the healthiest people on the planet are being managed by some of the dumbest people on Earth.  According to Vice, the NFL is now a "COVID superspreader."  With the playoffs beginning in almost exactly one mo...

  • November 15, 2021

    More Foolish Examples of Widespread COVID-19 Testing

    Simply put, virtually no healthy person — vaccinated or unvaccinated — should be tested for the Wuhan Virus.  To a large extent, Wuhan Virus testing has become like the masks: a weapon with which to harass those who refuse to bo...

  • October 31, 2021

    America Needs to Stop Cohabitating

    In our culture where "live your own truth" is the worldview of a seemingly ever-increasing number of Americans, women and children in the U.S. are especially in danger.  This is because, as pop-culture "philosopher" Came...

  • October 14, 2021

    The data are (still!) clear: Stop quarantining healthy kids!

    Thankfully, more and more right-minded Americans are standing up against foolish and useless Wuhan Virus mask mandates across the U.S.  Here's another great example, this time from the Fulton County, GA school district — one of th...

  • September 9, 2021

    'You're Only as Good as Your Last COVID Test'

    Just prior to the Georgia (UGA) vs. Clemson showdown on the first full weekend of the college football season, you could just sense that media leftists were aching to make the Wuhan Virus an issue. The last thing the residents of Covidstan want to se...

  • August 15, 2021

    Vaccine ratios vs. Wuhan Virus ratios

    Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) is one of the largest hospital networks in Georgia.  Its Wuhan Virus data are widely used by the local media and other organizations throughout northeast Georgia.  This week, NGHS tweeted out...

  • August 5, 2021

    Mask-Wearing: Not Polite, Not Considerate

    If you think you are being kind, compassionate, or polite as a mask-wearer, please take note of this column.  After the CDC and the Biden administration again ignored science and recommended or re-imposed foolish mask mandates and the like,...

  • July 28, 2021

    NFL wants to make life miserable for its unvaccinated players

    This past Thursday, the NFL sent a memo warning all 32 of its teams that "[w]e do not anticipate adding a '19th week' to accommodate games that cannot be rescheduled within the current 18 weeks of the regular season."  In ...

  • July 24, 2021

    Don't fall for Alabama doctor's Wuhan Virus fear porn

    In order to keep alive the false notion that "systemic racism" is rampant in the United States, leftists across America have peddled massive amounts of misleading information.  (The hotly debated "Critical Race Theory" i...

  • July 20, 2021

    Look what surrendering on the truth in the sexual realm has wrought

    Within the last few months, multiple U.S. polling groups have reported that, for the first time, a majority of Republicans now support same-sex "marriage."  As Reason magazine reported in late March: For t...

  • July 17, 2021

    Democrats: Killing with misinformation since 1840

    In 1840, item seven of the Democrats' Party Platform read: Resolved, That congress has no power, under the constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states, and that such states are the sole and prop...

  • July 11, 2021

    Southeast's Largest Newspaper Commands You to Keep Being Terrified of COVID

    As we are now well into July, plans for the 2021–2022 school year are ramping up.  For many school systems, the first day of school is less than one month away.  Given this, and in order to make sure that the government scho...

  • July 4, 2021

    Revival Lit the Fire for the American Revolution

    As I note in The Miracle and Magnificence of America, between the colonial and Revolutionary periods of American history came what historians have dubbed the (first) "Great Awakening."  The lack of passionate Christianity, along w...

  • June 12, 2021

    Anthony Fauci, Prophet of Scientism

    We were warned decades ago. In 1958, in “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State,” C.S. Lewis wrote, [T]he new oligarchy must more and more base its claim to plan us on its claim to knowledge. If we are to be mothered, mother must know b...

  • June 6, 2021

    A Challenge to the Modern Church: Invest in Christian Education!

    On schools, the Father of the Reformation, Martin Luther, said: I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of...

  • April 3, 2021

    Wake up, people: Science shows mask zealots were very, very wrong

    I've long said the data on the Wuhan virus in no way matched the hysteria visited on most of the U.S. and the world.  Whether "cases," hospitalizations, deaths, masks, lockdowns, or anything else of the like, time an...

  • March 11, 2021

    Today's Democrats Embody 'Neanderthal Thinking'

    Joe Biden thinks it is "Neanderthal thinking" for Americans to take off their masks and get back to church, work, school, and play.  One would think a U.S. president who refuses to hold a press conference, and, while in office bar...

  • February 28, 2021

    Woke Coke is No Joke

    As much as conservatives in America love capitalism, many U.S. capitalists sure seem to hate conservatives — especially Christian conservatives.  On virtually every issue important to conservatives of all stripes, large U.S. corporati...

  • February 1, 2021

    Democrats' Climate Agenda Will Mimic Their COVID Tyranny

    If you've enjoyed the last 10 months of foolish, science-denying lockdowns and mask mandates, the widespread destruction of businesses and economies, and the government telling you what jobs are "essential" and how you are to conduct yo...

  • January 28, 2021

    CDC/NFL Publish Revealing Wuhan Virus Paper

    Multiple outlets have recently reported on a new “scientific paper” published by the CDC in partnership with the NFL. The paper was authored by “medical experts” from both the NFL and the NFL Players Association. The paper det...

  • January 15, 2021

    What Conservatism Must Conserve

    As we stand on the verge of Democrats taking control of the federal government, and as emboldened leftists across media, politics, punditry, and the general population seek to silence and punish conservatives -- even going so far as to draft legislat...

  • January 9, 2021

    Lockdown Leadership Has to Go

    I should have seen the results of the Georgia Senate runoffs coming.  As a lifelong resident (51-plus years) of Georgia, living my whole life in one of the most conservative congressional districts in the U.S. (Georgia's 9th), I've ...

  • January 8, 2021

    Remember when the Democrats rioted?

    After a crowd of protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, which led to the death of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, there has been a chorus of calls for the removal of President Trump via the 25th Amendment or another impeachment. Whatever ...

  • January 5, 2021

    Reopen the Schools Now

    Just the News recently reported that, “States throughout the U.S. are failing to distinguish between patients hospitalized because of COVID-19 and patients who merely test positive for the disease while being hospitalized for other reasons....

  • December 16, 2020

    The Wuhan Virus and Hospitalizations

    Back in the early-to-mid-spring of this year, heeding the rampant Wuhan virus fearmongering, all across the U.S., hospitals shut down almost all care and procedures that they could. This was done in preparation for what we were repeatedly told was go...

  • December 16, 2020

    Remember when the left trumpeted secession?

    Because they are devoted to a theology of self, the hypocrisy of the left is almost as consistent as clockwork. The most recent case in point is the issue of secession in the United States of America.  On Dec. 9, Rush Limbaugh...

  • December 2, 2020

    Coronavirus Hysteria Is Simply Too Ridiculous to Continue

    The ignorance and the lies concerning the Wuhan virus can't continue much longer, because time is simply revealing the truth about it.  As we continue to suffer under foolish Wuhan virus restrictions, and as many parts of the U.S. ...

  • November 14, 2020

    2020 Election Fraud vs. 2016 Russia Collusion

    Just two days after Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the race for President of the United States, the Washington Post ran a piece with the headline, “Moscow had contacts with Trump team during campaign, Russian diplomat says:” ...

  • September 27, 2020

    Media's Wuhan Lies Lengthen, Deepen

    Because they've made a god of government, there's seemingly always another low to which liberals will stoop in order to help slow, sleepy Joe defeat Donald Trump in November.  Many of these lows involve the numerous nefarious reacti...

  • September 20, 2020

    Ignore the Polling on Who Should Replace Ginsburg

    Not even 24 hours after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, multiple media outlets were telling us that on the question of whom they prefer to replace Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, voters prefer Joe Biden to President Trump. The Fox News headli...

  • August 17, 2020

    Fake news and COVID

    Barely a week after the media in Georgia ignored the fact that a Savannah-area seven-year-old boy who supposedly died "from the coronavirus" actually had a seizure and fell in the shower, the largest newspaper in Georgia — the At...

  • August 8, 2020

    7-year-old boy in Georgia died 'from COVID-19'? Media leaving out key details

    It has been widely reported in the last several days that, sometime within the past ten days to two weeks, a seven-year-old boy from Chatham County (the Savannah area), Georgia died "from COVID-19."  If the media didn't say th...

  • August 4, 2020

    Big Tech and Capitalism

    In 2017, Mark Zuckerberg gave the commencement address at Harvard. As was noted at the time, Zuckerberg’s speech was laden with socialist talking points. Would the Mark Zuckerberg of 2017 have started Facebook? Likewise, would the Mark Zuckerbe...

  • July 26, 2020

    Ignore the Battleground Polls

    It seems that President Trump is trailing in the polls again. In other "shocking" news, it seems that only women menstruate; "green energy" is a massive scam; Trump-Russia collusion was a massive hoax; media leftists hate America;...

  • July 10, 2020

    What ‘Systemic Liberalism’ Has Wrought

    After another weekend of violence in Atlanta -- where nearly three dozen were shot and five were killed, including an eight-year-old girl -- Mayor Keisha Bottoms said “enough is enough.” However, because her worldview is corrupted by mode...

  • June 11, 2020

    Media try to hide Trump's success in Georgia's primary

    More evidence of our garbage media: Try to find Trump's vote totals in Georgia's primary election.  It's not easy.  Most sites (The New York Times, local NBC media in Ga., etc.) are  showing totals ...

  • May 18, 2020

    Hate Crime Hysteria in Georgia

    Since the shutdown apologists seem to be losing their argument — because the vast majority of us are in little to no more danger from the Wuhan virus than we are from other such illnesses, because the number of Wuhan virus infections is a near ...

  • April 26, 2020

    An ER Physician/Entrepreneur Perspective on the Wuhan Virus

    In California recently, two emergency room doctors gave a powerful briefing on what’s going on when it comes to the Wuhan virus in their state, our nation, and the world over. The two doctors in the video are Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Mass...

  • April 24, 2020

    Kill Capitalism, Kill the Media

    The economic destruction of our government-imposed, nationwide (for the most part) shutdown has been unprecedented, widely felt, and well documented. An overlooked example involves the media, specifically the newspapers. The UK’s Guardian provi...

  • April 11, 2020

    A powerful personal hydroxychloroquine testimony

    Below is the powerful personal testimony of one of the few people in northeast Georgia who have contracted the Wuhan virus.  According to James Harper, from White County, Georgia, his wife Emily (shown below) started showing symptoms of the...

  • April 8, 2020

    The Wuhan Virus Reminds Us: Beware Scientism and the Technocrats

    It was not unusual in ancient times for individuals to sell themselves into servitude -- as “bondservants” -- which was often described as a form of slavery. Usually this was due to excessive debt, but sometimes it was done simply to have...

  • March 31, 2020

    The Wuhan Virus Reminds Us: Liberalism Is Bad for Your Health

    As of this writing, according to Real Clear Politics's "Coronavirus Tracker," Europe has been the hardest hit by the Wuhan virus pandemic.  Several factors have made this the case, but I believe, and multiple reports confirm, ...

  • March 25, 2020

    Surviving the Coronavirus Financial Tsunami

    As our family of six continues to weather the Wuhan virus and the local, state, and national shutdown that has ensued, and before D.C. politicians spend another trillion or two that this nation doesn’t have on a “bailout,” the Thoma...

  • March 23, 2020

    Capitalism: A Great Weapon against the Wuhan Virus

    As the Wuhan virus wreaks havoc across the world and here in the U.S., Americans would do well to remember one of the biggest reasons why we will most likely weather this storm better than any other nation. After our faith in the One who made us and ...

  • March 9, 2020

    Don't Look for 'Moderates' in a Mob

    With the recent and sudden surge of Joe Biden in the Democrats' presidential primary, the liberal mob running the modern Democrat Party want Americans to believe they have shunned extremism and now have a palatable "moderate" on the ver...

  • February 19, 2020

    The Dems Deserve Bernie

    If nothing else is learned during the 2020 election season, this one lesson must be taught, shared, and passed down through the ages: the Democrat Party of 2020 absolutely deserves Bernie Sanders. Of course, many Democrats will deny this, because the...

  • February 11, 2020

    The Folly of Global Climate Forecasting

    It was particularly warm in Northeast Georgia this past week -- no doubt thrilling the earth-worshipping faithful. We’ve also been very wet. After the latest round of rain, temperatures returned to a more winterlike feel. On this past Friday, t...

  • January 28, 2020

    Remember: Pay Little Attention to Current National General Election Polls

    According to Real Clear Politics, in spite of the economy and everything else going well in the United States of America, almost every current national poll has President Trump trailing a hypothetical Democrat opponent.  Whether Biden; Sand...

  • January 26, 2020

    It's Time for More Christians to Get 'Sexually Explicit'

    Writing about sexual morality in the mid-twentieth century, C.S. Lewis concluded that the world's "great relaxation and simplifying" of the rules of modesty, or standards of propriety, while not necessarily a bad thing, presents this ...

  • January 2, 2020

    The 'Transgender' Endgame

    While listening to the Rush Limbaugh show this past Monday, I heard guest host Todd Herman interview an Australian pediatrician and professor on the issue of gender dysphoria and children.  Near the end of the enlightening interview, in whi...

  • December 25, 2019

    The Rightful King Has Landed

    We must never forget that at this time of year, we celebrate much more than a birthday. As the great Christian apologist C.S. Lewis put it, Christmas is the story of how “the rightful King has landed.” When Jesus stood before the Roman go...

  • December 24, 2019

    Richard Jewell and Donald Trump: Both Victims of a Corrupt Media, Academia, and FBI

    I still vividly recall watching the live announcement in September of 1990 by the International Olympic Committee awarding the Centennial Olympic Games (held in the summer of 1996) to the city of Atlanta. As the boisterous cheers after the initial an...

  • December 16, 2019

    Liberals accuse Army, Navy cadets of flashing 'racist' hand signs

    Of all the ridiculous, baseless charges of racism taken seriously by people who ought to know better, the claim that cadets used a racist hand gesture at the Army-Navy Game last weekend is among the worst, because it slimes the best among u...

  • November 28, 2019

    The Puritans and the Founding of America

    On November 29, 1623, two years after the first Thanksgiving, Governor William Bradford made an official proclamation for a second day of Thanksgiving. In it Governor Bradford thanked God for their abundant harvest, bountiful game, protection from ...

  • November 10, 2019

    President Trump. vs. the Media

    As I’ve noted before, I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 GOP primary. However, I eagerly voted for him over Hillary Clinton (and everyone else on the ballot) in the 2016 general election. I almost certainly will do so again in 202...

  • October 21, 2019

    Moral Relativism Taking Over Everything: Sports, Politics, Libraries

    In a letter he wrote in 1953, C.S. Lewis lamented the "apostasy of the great part of Europe from the Christian faith."  This apostasy, Lewis warned, presented "very grave dangers."  If Lewis could see Europe to...

  • October 10, 2019

    If Anyone Should Be Impeached, It's the Liberal Media

    In order to remove the U.S. president, the vice president, federal judges, and other federal officials from office, Article I, Section II of the U.S. Constitution gives the U.S. House of Representatives "the sole Power of Impeachment."...

  • September 11, 2019

    Anti-Gun Laws Will Never Solve Gun Violence in America

    Despite of what the left-wing media wants you to believe, there is not an epidemic of mass shootings, or an epidemic of gun violence in general, in the United States. The data make this clear. In fact -- and again, in spite of what many in the med...

  • August 31, 2019

    Rejection of Moral Absolutes Plagues the Modern Left

    If death — anyone's death — brings you joy, you should intently re-examine your worldview.  Even the just execution of a mass murderer — which I support in every case — should not bring anyone joy.  As ...

  • August 5, 2019

    Baltimore Needs Revival, Not More Federal Money

    One could consider the billions trillions of dollars in taxpayer funds already spent on places like Baltimore a form of reparations.  But it should be clear by now that more money from the government is not going to fix places like Baltimor...

  • July 30, 2019

    The Left’s War on Women

    One of the ugliest secrets about abortion is that, worldwide, girls are much more likely to be killed in the womb than are boys. This has resulted in an alarming male-to-female ratio in multiple countries. Even the George Soros-funded Human Rights Wa...

  • July 22, 2019

    The Moon Race: Godless Socialism vs. Faithful Americanism

    By 1927, Robert Goddard, an American physicist, engineer, and inventor, was already famous worldwide for his contributions to rocketry.  In 1920, less than two decades after the Wright brothers astounded the world by flying for twelve secon...

  • July 15, 2019

    Sorry, Ladies: It's Just Biology, Psychology, and Economics

    Just like probably 90 percent or so of those virtue-signaling in favor of "pay equality" for the American women who won the FIFA Women's World Cup, I've never paid to attend a women's soccer game.  In fact, as best I c...

  • July 4, 2019

    'Ancient Principles' Birthed the Greatest Nation the World Has Ever Known

    On the same day that the Declaration of Independence became official, a telling event further reveals that our founders understood well the “ancient principles” upon which our republic must be built. On July 4, 1776, the Second Conti...

  • July 1, 2019

    Our So-Called 'Rights' Are Expensive!

      One of the fastest ways to make things more expensive is for the government to provide easy access to money to pay for such things. Nothing illustrates this better than the cost of a college education. As has been widely reported for years ...

  • June 18, 2019

    Whom will Hollywood heed: Alyssa Milano or chief executives?

    As pro-abortion activist Alyssa Milano continues her evil efforts against the unborn, Hollywood filmmakers have a decision to make.  Since Milano's call for a "sex strike" fell flat, she's now taking a more geographic...

  • June 14, 2019

    Democrats: The 'Post-Truth' Party

    In September of 2008, U.S. senator, vice presidential candidate, and Democrat Joe Biden was asked his thoughts — "as a Roman Catholic" — on when life begins.  Demonstrating a vast ignorance of science, along with an un...

  • May 28, 2019

    With Abortion and Socialism, Democrats Are Peddling Slavery Again

    In 1860, with the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, the newly-formed Republican Party controlled the U.S. House, Senate, and presidency. As was the case with most every state in what would become the Confederacy, my home state of Georgia...

  • May 14, 2019

    The Democrats Speak the Truth About Abortion -- Accidentally

    Recent words by notorious Democrats again prove the old adage: even a broken clock is right twice a day. In this case, we have had two Democrats in less than two weeks accidentally speaking truth to one of the gravest moral issues of our time. Fir...

  • April 21, 2019

    Understanding Jesus's Mission

    One of the most important questions in the history of the universe is “Why did Jesus have to die?” This is especially the case as we are in the throes of what many are referring to as the “post-truth” era, where “Everybo...

  • April 18, 2019

    Abortion and Polling Propaganda

    In order to further the liberal agenda on the legalized killing of children still in their mothers’ wombs and to help elect more Democrats, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the largest newspaper in the state of Georgia, has engaged in polling ...

  • April 11, 2019

    What’s Worse Than 'Creepy Uncle Joe'

    It turns out that handsy Ol’ Uncle Joe really is a bit “creepy” after all. We can all say that, now that enough Democrats have told us this is the case. At least this is the current take of certain presidential-minded Democrats who ...

  • April 5, 2019

    Hollywood: Do You Know Why You’re in Georgia?

    After Georgia lost out to Louisiana on the production of Ray (the film about Georgia native Ray Charles) in 2008, then Georgia governor -- now U.S. Secretary of Agriculture -- Sonny Perdue, a Republican, signed tax-incentive legislation that was inte...

  • April 1, 2019

    'Seattle Is Dying' because Liberalism Is Killing It

    If you haven't seen the KOMO News special Seattle Is Dying, you need to.  (Watch it here.)  The hour-long show does a sound job of depicting the ugly decline of one of the most beautiful places in America.  However, ...

  • March 27, 2019

    Democrats and the Mueller Report

    Robert Mueller is done. Trump-Russia collusion is dead, but the war on the Trump presidency rages on. As many congressional Democrats and their lackeys in the left-wing media continue to pursue their foolish dream of removing President Trump from off...

  • March 14, 2019

    Pelosi's War with the Impeachment Hotheads

    Speaker Pelosi and her party are no longer on the same page.  Mrs. Pelosi's recent revelation that she's not for impeachment directly contradicts the political priorities of many — if not most — on the American...

  • March 5, 2019

    Traditional Methodism Wins a Major Battle

    Rejecting the sad direction of many of the other mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S., in a historic — and what some view as a surprising — vote at their General Conference last week, faithful United Methodists — thank...

  • February 23, 2019

    Fake Hate, Fake Collusion: All in the Name of Destroying the Trump Presidency

    In more ways than one, hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollet is far from alone.  He's simply the latest in a long line of unhinged leftists with evil intent bent on destroying Donald Trump's presidency.  Be it fake hate or...

  • February 7, 2019

    Infanticidal Democrats Took Their Cues from Barack Obama

    When it comes to the most significant moral issues of our time, no one should be surprised by immoral actions of modern liberals. You can be saddened, shocked, angry, disgusted, and the like, but you should not be surprised.  This is certai...

  • January 31, 2019

    The Safest Bet: Assume the Left is Lying

    When Rolling Stone horrifically flubbed their infamous campus rape “exposé” -- to the point that they were sued into requiring new ownership -- it was noted that no one should have been surprised that a publication that has spent d...

  • January 17, 2019

    Today's Democrats: Anti-Christian, Anti-Israel, Anti-God

    Anyone who considers himself a friend of God must have at least great pause when it comes to modern Democrats.  Seldom has a major American political party so distanced itself from the notion that, as President John Adams pointed out, ...

  • January 4, 2019

    The Wicked Gender-Deluded Mob Must be Defeated

    Most mobs are dangerous, and this is especially true of a mob on the wrong side of one of the oldest truths in the history of humanity. Dealing with the gender-deluded mob is like engaging a throng of toddlers throwing a coordinated temper tantrum...

  • December 25, 2018

    Christmas: The Cure for Loneliness

    Much of the world, it seems, is quite lonely. In fact, some have recently declared that loneliness has reached “epidemic levels” in the United States. A national study of more than 20,000 Americans by health insurer Cigna released in May ...

  • December 9, 2018

    Christian Mega-Star Singers: Tell the Truth on Homosexuality

    At 27 years old, with the 2015 GMA Dove Award for New Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for "How Can It Be," along with the 2016 Dove Award for Artist of the Year and a 2016 Grammy nomination, Lauren Daigle is currently one of the mos...

  • October 19, 2018

    We're Not Battling Craziness. We're Battling Evil.

    Ever since the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the American left has been – as my mother likes to put it – in "rare form."  Such "form" these last two years has resulted in obscene...

  • September 30, 2018

    For Democrats, the Kavanaugh game is 'delay and destroy'

    Counting today (Sunday, Sept. 30) it’s been 84 days since Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Of those on the current Supreme Court, the average time for Senate confirmation was 67 days. From 1967 to 2010, the me...

  • September 24, 2018

    Suspicions abound in accusations against Judge Kavanaugh

    Four supposed witnesses identified by Christine Blasey Ford in her accusations against Brett Kavanaugh have all refused to corroborate her account of the events from 36-plus years ago.  In letters to the Senate Judiciary Committee...

  • September 17, 2018

    May the Farce be With You: Han Solo Preaches Climate Doom

    And you thought the Death Star was dangerous. Speaking at the Global Climate Action Summit recently, a frothy and furry Harrison Ford -- resembling Chewbacca more than Han Solo -- growled and cussed at a like-minded gathering of the anthropogenic cli...

  • September 14, 2018

    Liberals Don't Care about Character

    By all accounts, Brett Kavanaugh is not only an excellent jurist, but also a good man.  According to Msgr. John Enzler, CEO and president of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.: This is the guy next door, th...

  • September 9, 2018

    The Church, Sexual Immorality, and Fake Christianity

    Pleased with the efforts of his demonic protégé, Screwtape nevertheless cautioned Wormwood not to waken his waffling churchgoing "patient" to "a sense of his real position."  In chapter XII of C.S. Lewis...

  • August 26, 2018

    'Truth Is Truth'? Not to Liberals

    At the end of 2016 – and as they themselves declared, much in response to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States – Oxford Dictionaries named "post-truth" as its 2016 "word of the year." ...

  • August 20, 2018

    The Price of Porn

    A little over a week ago, someone attempted to blackmail me. On August 12, I received this message in an e-mail: Hope you do not really mind my english language sentence structure, because i'm from Germany. I infected your system with a troj...

  • July 28, 2018

    Where Do the Libertarians Stand on Marriage?

    John Stossel’s recent column, “Dads Needed,” contains some timely, important, but well-known -- at least within the Christian conservative community -- truths. Much of the column focuses on the work of author, speaker, and former fe...

  • July 19, 2018

    Sex: The Supreme Issue in the City of Man

    It has come to pass that though there are many and great issues facing our great nation, for far too many on today's left, nothing is of greater importance than matters that impact their efforts at "four [or more] bare legs in a bed."...

  • July 3, 2018

    The Marriage Precedent

    There’s “precedent” and then there’s precedent. It seems for Maine’s Senator Susan Collins – who is the very definition of a RINO -- precedent is everything, except when it isn’t. According to Townhall: ...

  • June 21, 2018

    The Left and Children

    In their latest attempt to swing this fall’s election toward the Democrats, the left now wants us to focus on “the children.” They haven’t really thought this through. Liberals the world over should work hard to avoid any deba...

  • June 15, 2018

    Taste the Despair: Democrats Losing It over Trump

    It seems the Republican National Committee (RNC)'s cash advantage over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is even more pronounced than the numbers – $43.8 million to $3.4 million – indicate.  As long as Democrats like N...

  • June 11, 2018

    Celibacy and STDs

    Despite being sexually active for over two decades, -- I know, “TMI,” but you can hardly discuss sex and not have “TMI” -- my wife and I have never spent even five seconds worrying about, or one dime preventing or treating, an...

  • June 5, 2018

    Barr and Bee: What Do They Really Represent?

    So we’re supposed to believe that a Chick-fil-A hating, socialist loving, foul-mouthed former Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter, and 9/11 Truther who once sang the worst rendition of our National Anthem in the history of our nation -- afterwar...

  • May 25, 2018

    Another School Shooting: Why and What Should We Do?

      Two days before the recent mass murder of students at a Santa Fe high school in Texas, very near my home, a 13-year-old girl was killed when the car her father was driving hydroplaned and collided with a school bus.  The girl's fat...

  • May 12, 2018

    The Liberal Lust for 'Infinity Stones'

    I recently took my children and one of their friends to see Avengers: Infinity War. (WARNING: movie spoilers ahead!) As a kid I was a fan of the superhero universe -- Marvel and D.C. (remember these guys?) -- and I’ve passed that interest on to...

  • April 21, 2018

    Chicken Fried Hate

    As has been well documented, the left is hating on Chick-fil-A...again.  No one should be surprised by this, least of all Chick-fil-A.  Back in 2012, Chick-fil-A became a prime target of the left when its then-presi...

  • March 31, 2018

    Dems and the 2nd Amendment: Why Repeal What You Already Ignore?

    Make no mistake about it: in the hands of the American left, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not safe.  For that matter, virtually nothing wise or precious or sacred or holy or otherwise good is safe with those corrupted by...

  • March 28, 2018

    Of Course Children Prefer Liberalism

    Conservatism is, in a sense, an acknowledgement of and a surrender to the truth.  We conserve "what works," those traditions, practices, and ideas that have long held the test of time – such as marriage being the union of on...

  • March 19, 2018

    To Students: A Lesson on the Modern Left

    As a teacher of public school (17 years), private school (7.5 years), and homeschool (11 years), I have a unique perspective on education.  I've experienced K-12 education from just about every angle imaginable.  I've taug...

  • March 6, 2018

    Guns, Men, and Murder: The Data

    I love guns.  I've been around them all of my life, and I currently own several – for hunting and self-defense.  One of my most memorable gifts growing up was a single-shot 410 shotgun (that I got for Christmas when I wa...

  • February 21, 2018

    Stop Mistaking Evil for Mental Illness

    I know almost nothing of the mental condition of confessed mass murderer Nikolas Cruz, and almost certainly, neither do you.  There are few, if any, who can give a reliable opinion of the young man's psychiatric state as he walked into ...

  • February 4, 2018

    Christianity is Right about Sex and Marriage

    On January 31, 2018, my wife and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. At the end of this year, in mid-December, my wonderful parents will celebrate their 50th. Before my beloved father-in-law was criminally taken from us by a drunk driver in 20...

  • January 21, 2018

    Godlessness, Leftism, and the World's Holes

    One of the least known but most influential characters of early American history is the industrialist Samuel Slater.  One of my significant resources in documenting Slater's life and work came from author George S. White, who, in 1...

  • January 7, 2018

    How Do Liberals Flunk Science? Let Us Count the Ways.

    With most of the U.S. recently in the grip of significant cold, and given the proper goading from President Trump, liberals again felt led to lecture us on the difference between weather and climate.  It's lost on most leftists how they...

  • December 25, 2017

    ‘The Rightful King Has Landed’

    We must never forget that at this time of year, we celebrate much more than a birthday. As the great Christian apologist C.S. Lewis put it, Christmas is the story of how “the rightful King has landed.” When Jesus stood before the Roman go...

  • December 19, 2017

    Liberals Wrote the Book on Sexual Immorality

    Perhaps the most guarded tenet of all of modern liberalism is the idea that people should be able to do whatever they wish in the sexual realm.  Whether killing children in the womb; redefining the oldest institution in the history of humanity; ...

  • December 17, 2017

    Why the God-Haters Hate Israel

    One of the greatest evidences that there is a God -- to whom we owe our very lives, and whose Word we are to follow -- is the mere existence of a nation called Israel. Thus the rampant hatred for the children of Abraham. Nevertheless, science again m...

  • November 27, 2017

    The Truth Behind ‘Transgender’ Deaths

    In case you missed it -- which, sadly, no less than the U.S. Secretary of State made difficult --November 20 was “International Transgender Day of Remembrance.” The day focuses on memorializing the world’s gender-deluded who were vi...

  • November 23, 2017

    The First Thanksgiving

    The Pilgrims (dubbed “Separatists” by the Church of England), and the Puritans who followed them, believed that the America was their spiritual destiny. Aboard the Mayflower were 102 passengers, fewer than half of whom were of Pas...

  • November 19, 2017

    Colin Kaepernick Needs the Truth

    On the same day that GQ -- sometimes known as Genuflecting Quarterbacks -- named Colin Kaepernick as its “Citizen of the Year,” several mainstream media outlets -- including Christian websites -- reported that some Christian players in th...

  • October 27, 2017

    What Is 'Sacred' to the Modern Left?

    I think the most telling thing about General John Kelly's press briefing last week was when he lamented the things no longer held "sacred" in our country today.  When speaking of American soldiers dying on the battlefield, General ...

  • October 15, 2017

    Harvey Weinstein Proves Why the Left Really Hates Trump

    Chalk up the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal as one of the most unsurprising big media stories of the modern era.  It's like when a magazine run by liberals and devoted to promoting and encouraging the "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" ...

  • October 6, 2017

    Hugh Hefner's Real Legacy: Disease, Despair, and Death

    A timely and stunning statistic befitting the recent death of America’s patriarch of pornography: a shocking 110 million Americans -- over one-third of our population -- are saddled with a sexually transmitted disease. According to the New York...

  • September 25, 2017

    Kaepernickitis Is Rooted in Lies

    Foolish athletes (and their like-minded playmates) should direct their political and social ire elsewhere. Instead, they’ve joined their Hollywood cohorts as mouthpieces for the Democratic Party.  Take Colin Kaepernick. His failed ...

  • September 12, 2017

    Why Evangelicals Are Sticking with Donald Trump

    The Never-Trumpers of every stripe still don’t get it. Ten months after his historic defeat of Hillary Clinton, those opposed to Donald Trump -- whether from the political right, left, or middle -- have yet to grasp why so many Americans -- esp...

  • September 3, 2017

    A Clash of Cultures: The Bourgeois vs. the Burning Man

    It seems that University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax – who took her own turn melting the snowflakes at Middlebury College a few years ago – again has liberals in a lather.  On August 9 of this year, prof...

  • August 17, 2017

    The Inevitable Is Coming: Why Does the Little League World Series Discriminate?

    While all sound-minded Americans await the start of college football season and the NFL, to tide us over, we are soon to have the awesome American pleasure of the Little League World Series (LLWS) to enjoy. Currently the U.S. regionals -- which deter...

  • August 14, 2017

    Some Perspective on the President's Condemning Racial Violence

    On the protest in Charlottesville this past weekend, Pajama Media’s Roger Simon, a self-described “Jewish fella,” put it well: [T]he types who surfaced in Charlottesville on Saturday are certainly human beings of the most repel...

  • July 29, 2017

    Gender Debate Reveals Why the Left Must Be Defeated

    Donald Trump has finally returned the U.S. military to sound service policy when it comes to the gender-confused. For nearly the whole history of the U.S. military, and for almost as long as the idea of a “transgendered” person has existe...

  • July 19, 2017

    Raising Our Boys to Be 'Dangerous' Men

    My wife Michelle and I have three sons and one daughter. Much to the dismay of foolish, so-called “feminists” like Jody Allard, we’re raising every one of them to be “dangerous,” though, not in the sense that Ms. Allard ...

  • July 13, 2017

    Leonard Pitts Hits His Limits

    Well, well, it seems the “T” in LGBT has finally produced a line that even committed liberals are unwilling -- or at least, not yet willing -- to cross. For liberal columnist Leonard Pitts, a “genderless” child is the “p...

  • July 8, 2017

    Revival Sparked the Revolution

    Between the colonial and Revolutionary periods of American history came what historians have dubbed the (first) “Great Awakening.” The lack of passionate Christianity, along with the coinciding adoption of certain liberal interpretations ...

  • July 6, 2017

    The Vile, Crazy Left

    On the political spectrum, I land just to the right of Moses. As I’ve pointed out before, my political positions are the result of my Christian faith. So yes, I’m a bit bothered by how President Trump -- for whom I voted, and given the sa...

  • June 27, 2017

    Liberals Don't Need to Win Elections to Get What They Want

    The Democrats’ unprecedented losing streak continues. As Rich Lowry noted a couple of days after Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama’s chief legacy is the total collapse of the modern Democratic Party. In the h...

  • June 16, 2017

    Violent liberalism strikes again

    Guns don't kill people; liberalism does.  With the disturbing attack on congressional Republicans gathered to practice for a charity baseball game, again we see that virtually every perpetrator carrying out a sensational act of violence has ...

  • June 9, 2017

    Guns Don’t Kill People; Liberalism and Radical Islam Do

    After the recent attack on Manchester by Islamic terrorists, British author and journalist Douglas Murray provided a simple two-word suggestion for what might help prevent future such violence in Great Britain: “less Islam.” To bolster hi...

  • June 2, 2017

    Zuckerberg vs. Zuckerberg

    Would the Mark Zuckerberg of 2017 – who recently gave the commencement address at Harvard – have started Facebook?  Likewise, would the Mark Zuckerberg of 2004 – who was instrumental in building the world's largest, most po...

  • May 27, 2017

    'Transgender' Tragedy and Media Malpractice

    For those whose thinking has been slowed or hindered by liberalism, it turns out that mutilating your body in order to satisfy some demented desire to change your sex simply because you feel like it can have deadly consequences.   Recently in...

  • May 23, 2017

    Lying Jon Ossoff is unfit for office

    The most expensive congressional race in U.S. history has again dispelled the myth that conservatives are the aggressors in the moral wars that plague our politics. As Kyle Wingfield of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution recently pointed out, in the ra...

  • May 12, 2017

    Andrew Sullivan: Defining Decency Down

    A word on Andrew Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan -- a fake conservative -- recently penned his displeasure with the GOP bill that (barely) repeals and replaces ObamaCare. I know -- no one should be surprised that an HIV-positive unrepentant homosexual wh...

  • April 30, 2017

    Liberals, Scientism, and the Politics of Pleasure

    Behold the anthem of modern liberalism.  (Though you've probably already seen it, WARNING: vulgar and insanely stupid.  After viewing, you'll probably want to shower, pray, and spend some time with a Rubik's Cube.) So I n...

  • April 10, 2017

    Will Liberals Stand for the ‘Right’ to Plantation Weddings?

    It seems that Jordan A. Maney is not as committed to “diversity” and “love” as she would have us believe. Recently, Ms. Maney, the black owner of a San Antonio event planning business, “All The Days Event Co.,” got...

  • April 4, 2017

    Children Have the Right to Weapons of Mass Imagination

    Given the apprehension and suspension of the “notorious” playground “menace” Caitlin Miller for committing random acts of make-believe at her Hoke County, North Carolina school, I recently felt compelled to do a soft-target se...

  • March 27, 2017

    Stand Strong Against the Lunacy of the Left

    Virtually every crazy policy, corrupt courtroom ruling, or depraved piece of legislation that plagues our political climate is a product of modern liberalism. Whether killing children in the womb, killing small businesses, legally redefining the olde...

  • March 2, 2017

    I Told You Testosterone Would Make Women’s Sports More Interesting

    To be fair—given the perverse transgender agenda of the modern left—my idea was that men (such as Bruce Jenner) would compete as “women.” My idea was not that female athletes who want to pretend that they are men (or boys)...

  • February 27, 2017

    Racists and Transgender Apologists Both Reject Basic Biology

    My wife's mother was born and raised in Nigeria.  Her parents were Baptist missionaries from America.  Thus, in spite of the fact that my wife Michelle is almost as pale as I am, I sometimes (lightheartedly) tell people that I'm mar...

  • February 22, 2017

    Milo needs 'moral chains'

    In opposing the godless and bloody French Revolution, Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, concluded: I should therefore suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France, until I was informed how it had been combined with gove...

  • February 19, 2017

    Ashton Kutcher and Sex Trafficking: The Next Step

    As his recent and moving testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee reveals, Ashton Kutcher seems to be doing some great work combating the horrendous evil of worldwide sex trafficking.  His testimony was hailed by conservative...

  • February 16, 2017

    The moronic madness of 'Moral Mondays'

    For liberals, attempting to claim the moral high ground is like a community organizer winning the Nobel Peace Prize (or getting elected president of the United States): it happens only with willful suspension of reason and facts – which me...

  • February 9, 2017

    Dear GOP: Gird Your Loins over the Supreme Court

    If you think the riots and marches are bad now, wait until President Trump gets a chance at filling a second or even third vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States.  The "nastiness," vulgarities, property damage, and violence ...

  • January 24, 2017

    The DC Women's Tantrum

    The day after Donald Trump took the oath of office to become the forty-fifth President of the United States, radical liberal feminazis took to the streets of Washington D.C. and put on a disgusting display of hedonism and hate. What was billed as the...

  • January 16, 2017

    Study Reveals Significant Health Disparities for Homosexual Teens

    A recent (and first of its kind) study verifies again what many Christians have long warned about the homosexual lifestyle.  Published in August of 2016 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the study – "Sexual...

  • January 8, 2017

    Liberals Take to the Trenches in the War on Science

    Time and again, the American left – led by the mainstream media, the Hollywood elite, and the Democratic Party – lectures us about the ignorance of conservatives, Christians, and anyone else who isn't devoted to a "progressive...

  • December 25, 2016

    God’s Greatest Gift Meets Humanity’s Most Desperate Need

    As the parents of four young children (ages 14, 12, 10, and 8), my wife and I have had many years of joyous celebration at Christmas time. Interestingly, we’ve done this without ever “doing” Santa Claus. In other words, we have neve...

  • October 13, 2016

    Forget Tawdry Trump or Lyin' Hillary: Vote for the Party Platform

    It would bring me no sorrow to awaken tomorrow and find that Donald Trump had withdrawn as the GOP's candidate in the race for President of the United States, replaced by Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or Scott Walker or Bobby Jindal – even Mitt R...

  • October 9, 2016

    Tim Kaine’s Abortion Distortions

    It takes an immense amount of liberal-speak -- double-talk, gibberish, propaganda, and outright lies -- to attempt to justify the slaughter of children in the womb. Tuesday night, in his debate against Mike Pence, Tim Kaine, the Democrats’ nomi...

  • September 25, 2016

    On marriage and gender, where's the FCA?

    A wise pastor, whose name I've forgotten, once said, "If you want to know what to preach about, find out the sin with which your congregation is struggling."  Or, as I noted after the infamous Obergefell ruling by the U.S. Supreme ...

  • September 1, 2016

    Black Violence: Ignoring the Elephant in the Room

    The most dangerous places in America are the places where liberals reign supreme – large U.S. cities.  The city of Chicago is infamously a significant part of this violence.  Tellingly, 80 percent of the shootings in Chicago are class...

  • August 15, 2016

    NBA Players Should Boycott Their All-Star Game

    If the malevolent, hypocritical fools in charge of the NBA don't reverse their decision to pull the 2017 NBA All-Star Game out of the city of Charlotte, every NBA player with a shred of sense of what is good and right should refuse to play in the...

  • July 31, 2016

    The Fatherless Effect

    Over the last several months – and especially the last few weeks – much has been made of the "Ferguson effect."  The phenomenon is now so widely discussed that it has its own Wikipedia page (though I wouldn't suggest vi...

  • July 16, 2016

    We Have a ‘War on Cops’ because of the War on the Family

    Just so we’re clear, here’s the left’s narrative on the police in America: there’s widespread and institutionalized racism inside America’s law enforcement agencies, and black Americans are especially targeted. This raci...

  • July 10, 2016

    The Law Is Dying because Morality Is Dying

    Tuesday, after FBI director James Comey spent about 15 minutes laying out the legal case against Hillary Clinton and then spent about three minutes declaring that he was going to ignore the evidence and recommend no legal action against Mrs. Clinton,...

  • June 4, 2016

    Will Further Perversions of Title IX Ruin Women’s Athletics?

    Quick (no web searching!), who was the 2016 NCAA Division I women’s basketball champion? (Don’t tell me that your office didn’t do a women’s NCAA tournament bracket contest!) Okay, given that they’ve (UConn) won it four ...

  • May 3, 2016

    Make America Good Again

    For months now, Donald Trump’s campaign for the U.S. presidency has seduced tens of millions with the cry of “Make America Great Again!” There’s a good reason for this. Tens of millions of Americans -- myself included -- ar...

  • April 10, 2016

    The 'Bigger Problems' of Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal

    The governor of my home state of Georgia, Nathan Deal, has been soundly and frequently taken to task for his recent “Craven Capitulation” on religious liberty. I don’t wish to rehash the merits of the very weak bill Deal r...

  • March 22, 2016

    Hypocrisy Cripples Georgia's Religious Liberty Bill

    I suppose none of us should be surprised that the apologists for homosexuality are also capable of rampant and unrepentant hypocrisy. Nevertheless, the duplicity recently on display in Georgia belongs in the hypocrisy hall of fame. After the Supre...

  • February 22, 2016

    God, Conservatism, and Donald Trump

    The recent imbroglio between Donald Trump and Pope Francis brings to mind the real meaning of "conservative principles." Recently, because of Trump's comments on immigrants and immigration, and due to his desire to wall off the south...

  • December 24, 2015

    The World's Greatest Gift Meets Humanity's Most Desperate Need

    As the parents of four young children (ages 13, 11, 9, and 7), my wife and I have had many years of joyous celebration at Christmas time.  Interestingly, we've done this without ever "doing" Santa Claus.  In other words, we ha...

  • December 13, 2015

    To Really 'Fix Things,' We Must Pray

    Early in C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, admonishing his demonic protégé Wormwood on the matter of prayer, Screwtape said, “The best thing, where it is possible, is to keep the patient from the serious intention of prayi...

  • November 27, 2015

    New Breastfeeding Studies: Mainstream Media Still Ignores the Obvious

    In March of this year, National Review reported on new studies that, again, reveal the “alarming rate” of breast cancer among women who have had abortions. As National Review notes, “[M]illions of women worldwide who have ...

  • November 21, 2015

    Hillary Clinton disqualifies herself as commander-in-chief

    As if we need even more evidence, yesterday Hillary again proved herself incompetent when it comes to dealing with issues of national security, radical Islam, and even Islam in general.  In a campaign speech to the Council on Foreign R...

  • November 8, 2015

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Bad for All Americans

    Much of the left has always hated men like Ben Carson, and now that he has the lead (as of this writing) in the Real Clear Politics polling average for the Republican presidential nomination, their desire to tear him down has intensified.  With ...

  • October 7, 2015

    Guns Don't Kill People, Liberalism Does

    President Obama wants us to politicize gun deaths in America. I decided to take him up on his invitation. I hope that no one is surprised that Obama took this opportunity again to attack guns, the gun industry, and those of us who are fans of the ...

  • September 27, 2015

    The True Meaning of a Religious Test

    Ben Carson's recent statements about Islam and the U.S. presidency have garnered a wide array of commentary.  Most of the remarks have been quite critical, with even some conservatives taking Carson to task.  Predictably, many of those ...

  • September 16, 2015

    A Pretender Tells the Truth on Pop-Music Prostitutes

    What a sad indictment on our culture that a twice-divorced Vaishnava, PETA-loving, vegetarian rock-and-roller who once tried to convince the drug-addicted lead singer of the Sex Pistols to marry her, is now a voice of reason when it comes to the hype...

  • August 19, 2015

    Get'cha Honey for Nothin', Get'cha Chips for Free

    The quickest and surest way to make things more expensive for most of us is for someone in our government to attempt to make such things “free” for some. As I noted earlier this year, the largest “charity” in the U.S. is go...

  • July 30, 2015

    <em>Untermenschen</em>: The Language of Death

    Following the defeat of Germany and Japan in World War II, the first trial held at Nuremburg was for those accused of medical atrocities.  Twenty-three individuals, 20 of whom were medical doctors, were tried for a wide variety of war crimes and...

  • July 19, 2015

    The Dreadful Duty of Forgiveness

    One of the most unpopular and difficult virtues of Christianity is forgiveness.  As C.S. Lewis put it, “[e]very one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”  Sadly, our personal lives recently ha...

  • June 25, 2015

    The Confederate battle flag and the liberal mob

    I’ve lived in northeast Georgia all of my life.  My congressional district is the Georgia ninth.  According to the Cook Partisan Voting Index, my district is the third most conservative in the nation.  I’m nearly 46 years o...

  • June 18, 2015

    If You're a 'Social Liberal,' You're a Liberal

    As liberalism continues to promote bondage of one form or another -- financial, sexual, and so on -- and as liberals continue to wage war on the truth to the point that a seemingly never-ending number of Americans are living in a world where children...

  • June 15, 2015

    'Drive-By' Default: Lee Siegel's Poor Financial Advice

    Chalk this one up to yet another New York Times liberal who wants others to pay his bills. (Paul Krugman must be proud.) On the 71st anniversary of what some considered the most important day of the twentieth century, a day where thousands of men, fo...

  • May 27, 2015

    Killing the Scouts

    The plague continues to spread. Whether the church, para-church organizations, the government, schools, corporations, small businesses, and even blood banks, the plague of liberalism seems to know no bounds. Because of their desire (again) to comprom...

  • May 19, 2015

    How to Kill Christianity

    Much has been made of the recent Pew poll that highlights America’s religious landscape. What has drawn the most attention is the apparent decline of Christianity in the U.S. “The Christian share of the U.S. population is declin...

  • April 6, 2015

    On Marriage: Never Give In. Never, Never, Never...

    The battle raging over religious liberty on several fronts across the U.S. has been quite revealing.  Most telling are the lengths to which liberals continue to go to ensure that the homosexual agenda roars on undeterred.  As Ross Douthat h...

  • January 31, 2015

    Richard Sherman, Be There For Your Son: Marry His Mom

    It seems that the impending birth of the Seattle Seahawks’ 26-year-old super-star defensive back, Richard Sherman’s, first child has become a hot topic, even with the lame-stream media. No, the liberals that dominate both the sports media...

  • January 25, 2015

    The Truth is Always 'Offensive'

    When Jesus stood before Pilate, just prior to going to His execution, Pilate asked Him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” After some discussion, Pilate concluded, “You are a king, then!” Jesus replied, “You are right in sa...

  • December 30, 2014

    Jolie, Pitt, and Gender Madness

    With the Christmas Day release of the Angelina Jolie-produced and directed film, Unbroken, I came across the news that discussed the red-carpet appearance of Jolie’s family at the film’s premiere. Jolie was down with chickenpox, so her fa...

  • December 12, 2014

    <em>Rolling Stone</em>, et al. Bemoan the Culture They Helped Create

    Why is anyone surprised that Rolling Stone would flub a rape story?  Since when did a magazine that borders on – and, indeed, crosses over into – pornography become a trusted source for matters involving women and sexual assault? ...

  • October 15, 2014

    Liberals Wage War on the Truth

    When it comes to political “wars,” in spite of the meme perpetrated by most liberals, no one is more hawkish than modern liberals and the political party that they own, the Democrat Party. By and large since the 1960s, their efforts are s...

  • September 20, 2014

    How the NFL Should Fight Domestic Violence

    I almost feel sorry for the NFL. You know things are not going your way when the Feminazis feel as if they can give advice on how your league should be run, and with the 2014 season barely underway, you’ve already become a topic on "The Vi...

  • September 7, 2014

    The Problem with Happiness

    In "We Have No ‘Right to Happiness" from God in the Dock, C.S. Lewis noted that when his acquaintance “Clare” spoke of “happiness” she “simply and solely” meant “sexual happiness.” Becau...

  • August 24, 2014

    Forget the facts in Ferguson -- progs want an indictment

    The liberal media is already laying the groundwork for the next round of riots in Ferguson, Missouri, now that a grand jury has been convened.  The game is to continue to perpetuate racial conflict in America, write stories, organize protests, a...

  • August 17, 2014

    America: I Wish She Were "Hot or Cold"

    I live in the northeast Georgia area. I’ve spoken often -- to God and man -- of how blessed and thankful I am to have been born in the greatest nation the world has ever known. Not only that, but I’ve also been extremely blessed to have g...

  • July 19, 2014

    Liberals and 'the least of these'

    As America endures a massive invasion of illegal immigrants at our southern border, many liberals, whether in the media or on Capitol Hill, are attempting to claim the moral high ground in this matter and remind us that this is all about “the c...

  • July 3, 2014

    Hobby Lobby Deceit

    After the ridiculously close Hobby Lobby ruling came down Monday morning, the left went into its predictable hyperventilations. Also predictable, especially among those whose morality is driven by politics and opinion polls, was the frequent -- seemi...

  • June 20, 2014

    Liberals Wage War on the Redskins

    After the regime issued its latest diktat Wednesday via a three-judge panel at the Patent and Trademark Office, which ruled 2-1 to withdraw trademark protection for the Washington Redskins, Rush Limbaugh was pretty much spot-on when he noted, “...

  • June 12, 2014

    Some Inconvenient Truths about American Mass Murderers

    Whether our nation is mourning the victims of yet another mass murderer, or murderers, the liberal politicians and pundits, like a toddler in charge of the TV remote, continue to play the same sorry episode from their progressive programming: guns ar...

  • June 4, 2014

    Gallup Reveals the Obvious: Our Moral Collapse Continues

    Gallup is out with its latest “moral acceptability” survey.  On 19 issues, Americans were asked, “In general, do you find the following morally acceptable[?]”  The responses were ranked on a scale from “highly ...

  • May 18, 2014

    Fear Not the Fiery Furnace

    Around 600 BC, during the reign of Jehoiakim (who “did evil in the eyes of the Lord”), Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon invaded Judah and laid siege to Jerusalem. This was, as the prophet Jeremiah reveals, because the Israelites refused to...

  • April 26, 2014

    Close Your Mind

    Some things deserve no debate. The great C.S. Lewis alludes to this as he rather bluntly declares, “An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practic...

  • April 17, 2014

    The Games Democrats Must Play

    Now that Louisiana Senate Democrat Mary Landrieu’s deceptive video ad has been widely panned, it is worth noting that her efforts, though somewhat unique, are something that Democrats across the U.S. are probably going to mimic often this elect...

  • April 8, 2014

    Revenge of the Gays

    No one should be surprised that the Gay Gestapo saw to it that Brendan Eich got what they thought he deserved. “Live and let live” is not a hallmark of the homosexual agenda. We were warned. In December of 2005 The Becket Fund, a nonpr...

  • March 17, 2014

    A Message to Millennials

    Much is being made of the political ramifications of a recent report on Millennials from the Pew Research Center.  But instead of conservatives wringing our hands about what to do with these young “Spicolis,” in order to straighten t...

  • February 4, 2014

    Bill Maher, High Priest

    Bill Maher is upset. In his pagan mind, now that a significant number of Americans are comfortable with same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana, he recently concluded, "it's time we knocked over the next social domino, Puritanism." So, according t...

  • December 30, 2013

    Neal Boortz, Libertarianism, and Moral Government

    While substituting for Sean Hannity recently, Neal Boortz went into another of his "libertarian" rants against "social" conservatives. Taking note of the recent flak involving Phil Robertson of "Duck Dynasty," while pleading that the fate of the repu...

  • December 24, 2013

    Why We're Raising 'Duck Dynasty' Boys, and Not 'Pajama Boys'

    After Phil Robertson told the truth to GQ Magazine (though in a rather colorful way) about homosexuality, liberals went into their predictable hypocritical hyperventilation. While slamming Robertson's (and essentially the Bible's) views on homosexual...

  • December 22, 2013

    Polygamy and the Left

    With the ruling of a federal judge last week that declared part of Utah's anti-polygamy law unconstitutional, the left finds itself torn. Of course, with their ever-wavering consciences that are willing to go along with whatever seems the latest fad ...

  • December 1, 2013

    The Laughable Liberal 'Moral Imperative'

    Here the liberals go again: trying with all their might to prop up an increasingly unpopular piece of legislation.  This time, no less than Robert Reich has attempted to take the "moral" high road and claim that there is a "moral imperative...

  • November 17, 2013

    Want to Be a Slave to Debt? Vote for Big Government

    My wife Michelle and I are financial disciples of the late Larry Burkett.  As I have noted in columns before (and as our newly published book details), due in great measure to Mr. Burkett's ministry, on a teacher's salary, we have lived the...

  • October 20, 2013

    Walmart's (and America's) Lesson in Greed

    Right up there with abortion, homosexuality, and man-made global warming, few things rally liberals like "corporate greed." Writing for Salon.com earlier this year, Bill Moyers declared, "Corporate greed is poisoning America -- literally." The Huffin...

  • October 13, 2013

    Making a God of Government

    Recently, Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners and a leader of the so-called "evangelical left," declared the government shutdown "unbiblical."  On a video produced by Sojourners, Wallis said, "There is a deeper problem here than...

  • October 13, 2013

    L.A. Schools Celebrate Sin

    The pagans leading the L.A. schools are trying to hasten our march toward Sodom and Gomorrah.  The second-largest school district in the United States has decided that it wants its teachers to wear badges identifying themselves as LGBT "a...

  • October 7, 2013

    What's Wrong with Incest?

    The left-wing media, and no doubt the low-information voters who lap up their drivel, have got themselves in another faux tizzy over a GOP politician's (this time it's Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett) comments on same-sex marriage. You can tell tha...

  • September 16, 2013

    Putin's Right: There's Nothing Exceptional about Obama's America

    After Comrade Putin's New York Times Op-Ed where he lectures us on foreign policy and human rights, and then takes exception with the idea of "American exceptionalism," politicians and pundits on both sides of the political spectrum thumped their che...

  • September 8, 2013

    The New Reality of 'Free Lunches'

    We have ObamaCare and Obamaphones, so we may as well have Obamameals. Yesterday, the AP reported that in Boston, schoolchildren carrying lunchboxes could become "a more unusual sight as parents learn about a federal program that is now providing al...

  • August 27, 2013

    Bradley Manning's Transition to Chaos

    One of the greatest lies ever told is that our sin is not really sin. Guess where that leads us? It leads to men like Bradley Manning. Of course, Manning is the American soldier convicted of, among a myriad of other charges, violating the Espionage A...

  • August 18, 2013

    How Math Should Work

    One of my favorite moments in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series occurs in book two, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.  Peter and Susan, the older Pevensie children, are confused and troubled by Lucy (the youngest sibling, though ...

  • July 30, 2013

    Tit for Tat on Preferred Legislation

    If liberals can refuse to defend laws that they don't like, then conservatives can refuse to fund those that they deem undesirable.  As most who follow politics well know, on the issue of marriage, twice recently, liberals refused to honor th...

  • July 4, 2013

    Independence Day: July 2nd or July 4th?

    On July 1, 1776 delegates of the Second Continental Congress entered what John Adams called, "the greatest debate of all." Even after over a year's worth of conflict against the mightiest military force on earth, declared independence from Great Brit...

  • June 30, 2013

    The Gay 'Marriage' Charade

    After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the liberal pundits predictably cheered the ruling. With few exceptions, such pundits were very consistent (see here, here, here, here, here, and the Huffington...

  • June 26, 2013

    Illegal Immigration: A Christian Perspective

    As immigration dominates our political discourse, operating from a Christian worldview, as I always seek to do, it has been rather difficult for me to get my mind around what is the mind of Christ on this issue.  It becomes even more difficult w...

  • June 16, 2013

    Where is Daddy?

    On this Father's Day, we celebrate a dying role.  With all of the problems currently plaguing our culture -- crime, violence, promiscuity, poverty, divorce, drug abuse, and so on -- the one thing that we as a nation could do to remedy such thing...

  • June 11, 2013

    Big Government Can't Fix Immorality

    We see it time and again.  Whether the problem is poverty, bad schools, gun violence, crime in general, or even the spread of disease, the liberal answer is always the same: more government.  The recent gun debate raging in America illustra...

  • June 4, 2013

    The Boy Scouts' Next Capitulation

    To encourage his demonic protégé, Screwtape explained to Wormwood, "It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing... Indeed, the safest road to Hell is...

  • May 26, 2013

    Living With Liberalism: Gays, Graduations, and Swedish Riots

    One doesn't have to look far to witness the disaster that is modern liberalism.  Sadly, leading the debauchery is the Boy Scouts of America.  For over 100 years, the Scouts have operated under the oath: "On my honor I will do my best to do ...

  • May 17, 2013

    What Gave Us Gosnell?

    The surest way for sin to prosper is for a culture to stop calling it sin.  In America, the foremost example of the rotten fruit born of neglected sin is Kermit Gosnell. In case you missed it -- which is very likely, given the way the mainstre...

  • May 6, 2013

    Boycott Mike Lupica?

    See also: Talk radio turmoil Ah yes, where better to get insightful and intelligent social commentary than from George Costanza's favorite sports writer. ESPN's Mike Lupica just couldn't help himself when it came to the recent NRA convention in Houst...

  • April 28, 2013

    Radical Christianity vs. Radical Islam

    Finally, Bill Maher got something right.  Following the Boston bombings, Maher responded to Brian Levy, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino (a great example of nee...

  • April 7, 2013

    How the Founders Would View Same-Sex Marriage

    When I ask a liberal upon what moral authority he relies when he reaches his pro-homosexual/same-sex marriage conclusions, inevitably the answer is the U.S. Constitution.  In declaring government religious (mainly Christian) expression unconstit...

  • April 1, 2013

    BET Is Part of the Problem

    Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson recently angrily lamented the black unemployment rate in the U.S. "This country would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 and 15 percent... somebody's going to have to pay- 34 million African-Ame...

  • March 18, 2013

    Writing Our Own Moral Code

    Ohio GOP Senator Rob Portman, who, for the last several years has frequently been in the conversation for national office, recently reversed himself and declared his support for same-sex marriage. According to Portman himself, two years ago, his son ...

  • March 10, 2013

    The Truth about Legislating Morality

    I'm in my early forties, so I can remember well the days of NFL football before instant replay.  Whatever the shortcomings, the benefit of the official getting the call right always trumped any inconvenience that might result from a video review...

  • February 10, 2013

    The Myth of Overpopulation

    One of the frequent cries of many on the left is that the world is overpopulated.  The latest hysterical outburst on this matter came from Sir David Attenborough, a recent patron of "The Optimum Population Trust."  The 86-year-old Attenboro...

  • January 20, 2013

    A (Not So) Brief History of the Gun

    As debates about guns and gun rights in America rage, truly to understand the gun, one needs to look at its history.  The story of the gun is a fascinating and riveting look not only at history, but also at science, business, politics, justice, ...

  • December 30, 2012

    The Allure and Danger of Scientism

    It was not unusual in ancient times for individuals to sell themselves into servitude (as "bondservants"), which was often described as a form of slavery. Usually this was due to excessive debt, but sometimes it was done simply to have a roof over on...

  • December 24, 2012

    Confronting Christmas

    As godless secularism becomes more and more entrenched in our culture, the Christmas season is one of the most contentious times in our calendar.  Every year, there are stories in the news of banned Christmas trees or of Christmas trees renamed ...

  • December 9, 2012

    Answering Liberals' 'Gotcha' Questions

    As much as the establishment GOP would like for the "social" (I prefer "moral") issues to go away, liberals simply won't allow it.  But contrary to GOP establishment beliefs, this is not a bad thing. So, as a public service to conservative Chr...

  • November 26, 2012

    Learning the Hard Way

    Having four children 10 and under offers plenty of intimate, hands-on lessons on human nature. Sometimes, for example, in spite of Michelle's and my best efforts, good parental instruction is ignored and hard lessons have to be learned. I'm not ...

  • November 3, 2012

    Biased Till the End

    According to the latest (and I'm assuming last) NBC/WSJ/Marist poll on the all-important state of Ohio, Mitt Romney is toast. The poll of 971 likely voters, out today on Real Clear Politics, has Obama in the lead 51% to 45%. At least they are consist...

  • October 14, 2012

    The Clear Moral Choice

    After his drubbing in the first debate, Barack Obama finds himself on the receiving end of plenty of advice when it comes to the next one.  Jennifer Granholm (remember her?), the former governor of Michigan turned political commentator (though f...

  • October 7, 2012

    Islam Earns Its Scorn

    As the renowned and pioneering historian Bernard Lewis noted over 20 years ago in The Roots of Muslim Rage, "the classical Islamic view, to which many Muslims are beginning to return, [is that] the world and all mankind are divided into two: the Hous...

  • October 4, 2012

    The Empty Chair Showed Up

    There should be little surprise at the results of 2012's first presidential debate. What the heck else was Obama going to do or say?! This is what happens when you have to run on your sorry record. This is what happens when there is no teleprompter. ...

  • August 30, 2012

    Liberals and the Politicization of Rape

    Liberals love to talk about rape -- at least those who are apologists for the abortion industry do.  When GOP Missouri senatorial candidate Todd Akin did his best Joe Biden impression and inserted both feet into his mouth over abortion, "legitim...

  • August 23, 2012

    The Real Problems with U.S. Health Care

    With Paul Ryan now on the GOP ticket and the Medicare/health care debate now even more volatile, consider this bit of folly when pondering government's role in health care.  Recently, while on the way to church, I made my typical Sunday morning ...

  • July 28, 2012

    The Dumbest Word in the English Language

    There was a significant statement made in the media recently that was probably missed by most, due to the evil events in Aurora, Colorado.  Well, that, along with the fact that it was on MSNBC. Recently liberal mouthpiece Frank Rich was on the R...

  • July 20, 2012

    Corporate Culture/National Culture

    Two longstanding and well-known American corporations have reaped very different rewards for their very different positions in the marriage debate. Chick-fil-A, with over 1,600 restaurants across the U.S., is a privately held and family-owned company...

  • May 26, 2012

    How and When to Discriminate?

    The NAACP recently decided to (surprise!) side with President Obama and liberals across the U.S. and endorse same-sex marriage.  The board of directors for the organization released a statement declaring that "civil marriage is a civil right and...

  • April 29, 2012

    Entitlement Addiction

    Never has there been a clearer manifestation of the addictiveness of our entitlement culture than what occurred recently in the state of Michigan -- not once, but twice. For several months after winning a $1 million state lottery jackpot, 25-year-old...

  • April 8, 2012

    The Resurrection

    At this time of year, Christians celebrate Easter, or as I prefer, Resurrection Sunday.  As one scans history, no other date put such a mark in time as when Jesus Christ shed His grave-clothes and departed the tomb. Of all the religions of the w...

  • March 18, 2012

    George Washington was a 'One-Percenter'

    Liberals across the country are honing their attacks on wealthy people as class warfare is targeted to displace any consideration of the failures of the Obama administration.  As the weather gets warmer and the political season gets hotter, the ...

  • March 11, 2012

    'Social Issues' Are Really Moral Issues

    One of the greatest deceptions perpetuated by the mainstream media concerning the American political scene is the idea that whenever the "social issues" are prominent in election debate, conservatives lose.  James Taranto of the Wall Street Jour...

  • February 19, 2012

    Why is the Catholic Church Surprised?

    In the months prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, then candidate Barack Obama said, "The first thing I'll do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)." FOCA, as co-sponsor Barbara Boxer described, "supersedes any law, regulatio...

  • August 26, 2011

    The War on Liberal Contradictions

    I'm confused (no jokes, please).  The Obama administration and the mainstream media really need to work on coordinating their message better.  I mean, usually memos and pressers from the White House; the pages of the New York Times, LA Time...

  • July 24, 2011

    Living Debt-Free

    In his 1992 bestseller The Coming Economic Earthquake, writing about mortgages, home equity loans, and easy lines of credit, the late Larry Burkett noted that "[c]learly[,] many American homeowners have transferred the wealth stored in their homes to...

  • July 4, 2011

    The Cornerstone of Liberty

    In 1772, to confront the unjust acts of Great Britain, citizens of Boston formed a Committee of Correspondence to coordinate their efforts with those of the other colonies.  The citizens charged the Committee with several tasks, one of which was...

  • June 19, 2011

    The War on the Family Rages On

    On Father's Day, here is some sobering information concerning dads. According to the U.S. Census, one-third of American children are growing up without their biological fathers, while 40% of newborn babies in the U.S. are delivered to unmarried mothe...

  • May 29, 2011

    The Sad Consequences of 'Shacking Up'

    Recently that Hollywood scholar Cameron Diaz gave us an illustration of the secular/godless worldview on marriage: "I do [think marriage is dead]. I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships bas...

  • January 3, 2011

    Bush Derangement Syndrome vs. the Obama Hate Machine

    In a recent column, David Corn bemoans what his friend Jonathan Alter refers to as the "Obama Hate Machine (OHM)."  Corn concludes, "That's an appropriate name for the right-wing attack network that will throw any charge it can co...

  • August 4, 2010

    Catch-22s Mounting for Democrats

    No matter what U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled in United States vs. Arizona, the Democrats could not have won. If she upheld the law, the Democrats would almost certainly appeal. Given that the law is tremendously popular all across America, t...