The Restaurant, the Bag, and the Lesson
You can learn a lot from a woman’s purse. Men learn this as little boys; it may be the first thing we learn about women.
Culture
Reflections on Newspapers, their Past & Future—and My Career at one of them
To say that the world of newspaper journalism has changed since I began my career at the Chicago Tribune last century would be a demonstrable understatement.
Dispatches Del Camino (#9)
Six of us have fallen in together, walking side by side for the last several miles of the Camino de Santiago. We are all strangers. All pilgrims. From different nations. There is dust on our backpacks, mud on our boots, and we all smell like something a diuretic horse produced.
Bravery Over Safety: Why Resilience Matters More Than Comfort
In today’s world, safety has become an obsession—from helicopter parenting to corporate risk aversion to an entire culture built around avoiding discomfort at all costs.
Requiescat in Pace, Pope Francis
My Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — feed was full of chortling posts claiming that the Vatican denied Vice President J D Vance a meeting with Pope Francis, sending the Vatican’s second-ranking official instead, in what the left loudly proclaimed was a deliberate snub to Mr Vance. That’s not quite what it …
Easters Past, Future, and Present
Easter 2025 was pleasant as it was lived in the present. But, much of this Easter, I’ve pondered about Easters in the past and those coming in the future. At this short end of life I won’t see many of Easters I imagine in the future.
The Cult of American Hatred: How a State-Sponsored Religion Has Infiltrated a Nation Built on Liberty
There was a time when Americans agreed—at least in principle—that the government should not promote or establish an official religion.
Dispatches Del Camino (#8)
We are walking through Navarrete on Easter Monday the moment Pope Francis dies. The bells of the massive church are ringing, non-stop. Locals are in a kind of reverential shock.
Are You A Useful Idiot, An Enemy Of The People, Or An American?
We The People can take heart that, in both percentage and in actually numbers, there are far fewer Americans promoting America’s destruction in 2025. Regardless the ratio of Useful Idiots to Enemies Of The People, every single American who is screaming in the streets is promoting America’s demise. Period.
Democrats Tap Into Generic Hatred
George and Diane discuss the rise in Democrats using swatting. They are full of hatred because they can’t win debates/discussions about improving America. The most recent swatting victim is the father of the teen, Austin Metcalf, who was murdered by Karmelo Anthony.
Did Katy Perry just kill feminism?
On Monday, 6 celebrities formed an all-female crew aboard a Blue Origin space capsule for a suborbital space flight that lasted 11 minutes. The women included the wife of Jeff Bezos, singer Katy Perry and CBS presenter Gayle King. Public reaction was not what Bezos expected for him or his company
The Truth That Endures, Part Two: The Sacrificial Lamb and the Shadow of Death
The Passover lamb was more than just an act of obedience—it was a stand-in, a substitution for the people. A life was taken so that another life could be spared.
JK Rowling vindicated; UK’s Supreme Court kicks trannies out of the ladies’ room
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom stunned the world by declaring trannies aren’t women—an application of common that is only too rare these days in Western civilization. The court said:
Dispatches From El Camino (#4)
The 83-year-old woman has been opening her home to pilgrims since before I was born. Currently, she is bustling around her house, gathering fresh towels and soaps for us. We are standing in her doorway, drenched, cold, and looking about as content as wet Himalayan cats.
Bad Causes Attract Bad People. They Also Attract Crazy People.
Robert Stacy McCain warned us about jumping to conclusions before all of the facts were in about Cody Balmer, the man charged with setting fire to the Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion. As soon as Pennsylvania State Police announced that Cody Balmer had been charged with setting the fire at the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion in Harrisburg, someone …
Dispatches from El Camino, (#3)
We leave our inn at daybreak. Our innkeeper is awake and already at the front door, wearing a robe, waiting to say goodbye to us. Like a mom seeing her kids off to school. She gives us a heartfelt and emotional goodbye in French, with double kisses and everything.
The Castration of the American Male: How Gynocentrism Gutted a Generation
Take a stroll through any American city, and you’ll find him: the modern urban male. Dressed in soft fabrics, sipping plant-based lattes, paralyzed by indecision, terrified of offending anyone, and spiritually neutered.
Dante’s Inferno: The 700-Year-Old Matrix That Red-Pills You on Sin and Justice; Part 1
When people imagine Hell, they often picture fire, demons, and eternal torment—but much of this imagery doesn’t come from the Bible. Instead, it comes from Dante Alighieri’s, “Inferno.”
Dispatches from El Camino (#2)
There are hundreds of pilgrims. Very few speak English. We are all from different countries, age groups, and walks of life. And yet, somehow, although we are foreigners sojourning in a strange land, we all manage to—this is beautiful—gripe about how slow the line moves.
Freedom – Why HOAs and Restricted Deeds are Unconstitutional and Anti-American
At their core, HOAs and restricted deeds are the Karen collective’s dream come true—a private mini-government with the power to tell you exactly how to live on property you supposedly own.