Smarter Than Our Ancestors
New research reports that, thanks to smartphones, kids are smarter today than their ancestors ever were. “Technology,” the article said, “is expanding the American IQ.”
Culture
The Cultural Chasm
A recent Institute for Family Studies survey underscores how conservatives place a higher value on marriage, parenthood and faith than leftists leading to stark differences in family, wellbeing, and demographics.
The Next Pandemic Will Test More Than Our Immune Systems
By any honest accounting, the pandemic did more than disrupt daily life. It rewired cultural instincts, reshaped how Americans relate to authority, and quietly altered how dissent is treated in a society that once prized it. The damage was not limited to lost lives or lost income; it extended into trust, neighborliness, and the very idea of personal agency.
The Art of Making Problems Disappear Before The General Notices
I was a general’s aide-de-camp, which meant my actual job was not assisting, but intercepting stupidity before it reached flag rank. My boss lived in a world where things simply worked. Vehicles appeared complete. Schedules ran. Equipment existed. That didn’t happen by magic — it happened because several people quietly absorbed chaos so he never had to.
No, There’s No War on Christianity, Not at All!
The cited article below comes from The Irish Times, published in Dublin, and what passes for the only newspaper of record in that heavily Catholic country. Of course, that heavily Catholic country has also legalized homosexual marriage and prenatal infanticide, so . . . . Sunday, January 11, 2026, is in the calendar of …
Making Virginia’s Constitution an Abortion
Every abortion is a bloody mess. Virginia Democrats are making a mess of the Virginia Constitution with a “Right to Reproductive Freedom. They’re determined to make killing a baby in the womb an “individual” right.
If Thoreau Lived Today, He’d Be Cancelled by Both Sides
Henry David Thoreau refused to fund a government waging an unjust war, refused to bend to the mob, and spent a night in jail for it. That night, he birthed one of the most important political essays ever written: Civil Disobedience.
The Happiness Report
The annual World Happiness Report recently ranked the happiest countries in the world. The U.S. dropped to number 24, its lowest position in the report’s history.
Ticking Away the Seconds Toward Eternity
As a kid, I had a hard time imaging the year 2000, but now, we’re more than a quarter century past that, as 2025 rolls into history.
A Modest Climate Change Proposal: Melt Michigan
For decades, Democrats have run the greatest long con in meteorological history—keeping Michigan locked in a Siberian deep freeze under the guise of “saving the planet.” This is not environmentalism. This is a communist cold-storage program. A deliberate effort to stop the natural evolution of states—where Michigan obviously becomes Florida with better beer and fewer felonies.
The progressive ‘urbanists’ just don’t quite understand things
I will admit to being something of a very amateur architecture aficionado; I love great looking homes, even though I’m in no position to afford one for our family. I follow people like Coby — “Working on creating better, more beautiful places to live in. Developer, Writer, Urbanist, Professor, Optimist. Check out my writing below!” …
CEO saves Hilton
Conservatives don’t carry signs. They don’t organize boycotts. They are too busy to picket. They just make life hard for companies that go woke on them. Remember the gay protest day against Chick fil A? Conservatives didn’t chicken out. They responded by helping the fast food chain set a single day sales record.
Minnesota Fats, Somali Fraud, and America’s Dishonest Media
Were he alive today, there is little doubt that Minnesota Fats would be amazed and perhaps a bit envious of the $9 billion hustle currently in progress in his namesake, Minnesota—especially given the fact that the mainstream media seems content to ignore it entirely.
The Righteous Hunter: Because Protecting Children Is a Holy Calling
America has officially reached the point where a country singer has to remind a billionaire music mogul that he does not, in fact, own the souls of America’s children.
Things I Voted For Volume I
As I look around at the end of 2025 and beginning of 2026, I gotta say I’m enjoying a lot. Of course the fact El Presidente de life Maduro is currently in federal prison awaiting trial for multiple charges is pleasing.
228 Years Ago, John Adams Warned Us — And We’re Proving Him Right
John Adams didn’t write the Constitution like a motivational poster. He wrote it like an engineer handing over a machine with a warning label: this will fail if misused. When he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” he wasn’t sermonizing. He was stating a design limitation.
Living Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #77: “White Privilege” Died When Merit-Hiring Was Outlawed
Americans must not let a young black surgeon operate on him/herself. It isn’t racism on the part of the patient that guides such a decision. It is racism on the part of colleges, medical schools, residency programs, et al which places way too many black Americans in classrooms & training programs where they don’t belong.
The Upside-Down Gospel: How Stranger Things Steals from the Bible, but Forgets the Cure
Stranger Things didn’t invent spiritual warfare—it just put it on a BMX bike and added synth music. The show works because it’s parasitic: it feeds on biblical ideas already baked into Western consciousness. Shadow realms. Invasive evil. Possession. Sacrifice. Redemption. None of this is new.
The Marriage Crisis
What the heck is going on? Why aren’t people dating, or getting married? What’s to blame? I can’t answer that, I’m too busy scrolling my phone right now.
Why Pride Collides with God’s Design — And Why Christians Must Respond with Both Truth and Love
If you strip away politics, slogans, and culture-war noise, the Bible gives a simple answer to why Pride—specifically the ideology of self-defined identity—is against God’s will.