Homeless People and Helpless Country
The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to hear a case on the right of cities to police their homeless population underscores the complete failure of our socialist government.
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Pope Francis Finally Gets Something Right
How many times have we heard, at least since the end of the 1950’s, that young people will not return to the Church nor vocations increase until we make everything groovy? And now that they have made everything too groovy for words, with leftist policies on immigration, pop music and pop liturgies, a moral theology so thin it would constitute indecent exposure on a nude beach, what then?
Is Trump Impeached Or Not?
Perhaps, “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” That, at least, would be one answer the Democrats might give. More obviously, it also depends upon the meaning of “impeach.”
Little Boxes of the Mind, Conclusion
Change the character and you have changed the nation. A culture based on casual promiscuity, Gaia-worship, and mistranslations of Hindu and Mayan literature will produce an entirely different national character from one based on Homer and Dante.
Little Boxes of the Mind, Part One of Two
I do not blame the students. The fault lies almost entirely with their parents and with their teachers. Entire university departments are now populated exclusively by trained monkeys who specialize in critical theory or sociology or marketing and know absolutely nothing worth knowing.
Our Saudi Friends and Allies
Why are Americans getting so ticked about a Saudi or two acting up in Pensacola. They are our good allies and buddies, right? Saudi businessmen were pals of the Bushes, and who really cares if members of the royal family and other Saudi billionaires are funding Jihadi schools in America? After all, they’ve been paying good money to both parties in Congress. Besides, there’s money to be made. It’s oil, man, oil. Either get with the plan and pick up the crumbs under the Bushes (and the rest of the GOP’s table) or go off and sulk and kiss your...
A Happy Real American Thanksgiving
how, once upon a time, some footloose Englishmen came to the New World seeking easy gold, free land, and the right to spit tobacco when and where they wanted. As good Anglicans, these adventurers, roughnecks, and proto-cavaliers were too busy minding their business to worry to much about minding yours. The few who who survived the initial attempts to settle various spots in Virginia, beginning with Jamestown, were reminded of their own weakness and from time to time their leaders decided it was time to give thanks to the Almighty for letting them survive in this savage land. So, with one accord, the men brought what game they could shoot, along with their jugs of corn-squeezings and stashes of tobacco, whipped out their fiddles, and had themselves a great time
Politics of Human Nature, Part III
A 24 minute podcast on how modern ideologies–Marxist, Freudian, feminist, Classical Liberal–have fragmented and undermined our understanding of human nature. The Soviet experiment ended in complete failure, and the American and European experiment in democratic hedonism is going faster into ruin than communism.
Politics of Human Nature 30 Years Later, Part II
A 27 minute podcast: putting the American suicide in an historical context.
