The Moral War is Here

“Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.” ~ Winston Churchill I’ve been trying to…

Is 2020 a Technicolor Election Year?

The left wing “news” centrifuge is spinning at full rpm, casting everything the GOP speakers say as lies or misinformation. They are attacking every personal attribute that has any chance of casting doubt on the speaker’s credibility But it dawned on me why the 2020 GOP convention is having such an impact – it is…

2020: Will the Intolerant Overcome the Tolerant?

I was thinking about how great literature of the past has two components, one of entertainment and the other of wisdom. Often, the great authors of history do more than just cater to our enjoyment by telling a great story, they also educate through the themes of their writing. To varying degrees, many of these…

What’s At Stake In 2020

The 2020 election is not really a choice between Democrats and Republicans, it is more of a choice of what America is going to be in the future. The question on the ballot is whether America is going to retain and strengthen its reliance on the logic and reason of Western Civilization or abandon it…

It’s All Been Done Before

“Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” ~ Frédéric Bastiat, Essay on Government (1848) “As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it – then everyone will want to participate…

Disconnected

What we are seeing in our politics today is the complete disconnect of our government and the people. People in government live in one world and the people in another – that’s the only way to explain the lack of concern over the riots in the cities run by Lori “Baby Groot” Lightfoot, Ted “Soyboy”…