I guess the new thing with the young’uns when confronted with challenges from their elders is to reply with the inane dismissive of “OK Boomer” – or the newest pejorative variant “GFYS Boomer” (these crazy kids and their acronyms). Of course, the implication is that now that you old folks have stolen Greta Thunberg’s childhood,…

One wonders if at least part of our current social issues is that we have come to a point in American history where most people who are searching for validation are looking to external sources for it. I began to think about that after a series of conversations with people on the left who simply…

The Captain Ahab Democrats, through their quest to harpoon their Great Orange Whale, have taken America to the brink. They have clearly established that they 1) don’t trust the American electorate to select their own leaders, 2) prefer bureaucratic trial by combat rather than jurisprudence, 3) believe they are above everyone else and subject only…

“A man may postpone his own enlightenment, but only for a limited period of time. And to give up enlightenment altogether, either for oneself or one’s descendants, is to violate and to trample upon the sacred rights of man.” ~ Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” (1781) I saw the headline of the linked article…

One of my finance professors in my undergraduate days was the Dean of the Finance School, a brilliant man by the name of E. Carl Jones. It wasn’t long into the class that he taught us one rule about banks and borrowing – if what you borrow has too few zeros to the right, you…

Interesting that that 11,000 scientists call for population control in the developed world to fight climate change when the birth rates are falling below replacement rates in most of the countries in the “developed” and “developing” world. The US, the EU, South Korea and Japan – all are experiencing historic low birthrates. The Western world…

One wonders if the unique American experiment in liberty is already too far gone to save. One must wonder if Lady Liberty is just a zombie, unaware she is dead as she wanders the landscape. Many of our elitist punditry class say that our current separation is due to a stark partisan divide – but…

The most dangerous aspect of what the Democrats have done over the past 3 years ((and are continuing to do) isn’t really the process or the damage they have done to our governing institutions – it is that they have actively encouraged and condoned actions which, in the Obama years, would have had them screaming…