An American Procession
It’s overcast. I’m with my wife and my dog. We are on the wide porch of a vacation rental house. This is the main road which cuts through this small town. There are sounds of kids laughing, playing. Easy traffic.
Culture
Tribalism in the USA and the Battle Over Sacred Cows
Tribalism in the U.S. has intensified as politics has become more about identity and loyalty than policy debate. Instead of viewing political beliefs as a spectrum, Americans increasingly see them as binary choices—either you’re “with us” or “against us.”
National Student-Athlete Day: A Celebration of Legacy, Not Paychecks
Today, April 6th, we celebrate National Student-Athlete Day (NSAD)—a day to honor the nearly 8 million high school and 500,000 college student-athletes across the United States who balance grueling athletic schedules with academic excellence and community impact.
Screen Angels
Not only did Disney’s latest film Snow White take a pounding from the critics, but it also lost at the box office. According to The Hollywood Reporter during its opening weekend, the movie grossed $86.1 million falling short of its $100 million goal.
Book review: C.S. Lewis and the World He Warned Us About; A Prescient Vision from 1943
In 1943, in the midst of a world war and at the dawn of a technological era, C.S. Lewis published a slender but thunderous work titled The Abolition of Man. At the time, it was a philosophical defense of objective values against creeping relativism. Today, it reads like prophecy.
El Camino de Average Joe
People from all over the world are traveling to this sacred place. Farmers and peasants. Lords and ladies. Rich and poor.
When Did Success Become a Crime?
At what point did we decide that the hardworking shoulders carrying this country should be kicked instead of thanked?
The Left Want to Control Language; Don’t Let Them!
We have previously noted how the left attempt to use control of language to control the argument. The Associated Press Stylebook, which is used by many, though certainly not all, credentialed media sources, specifies language which reinforces the notion that a person can define his ‘gender’ as something different from his biological sex, and that such choices …
Jasmine Crockett—Queen of the Democrat Party Trash Talkers
During an online telephone interview, Crockett called for a “Tesla Takedown. “All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.”
An Analog Childhood
You slap the power button on TV. The old Zenith console warms up. The television is cased in a faux wooden cabinet, with warped oak-grain veneer from a bygone Dr. Pepper someone once placed atop the television, even though this someone’s mother told them to NEVER set ANYTHING atop the TV, not that we’re naming names here.
Truth, Duty, and the Three Great Lies Undermining Society
At West Point, the motto is clear: Duty, Honor, Country. These are not just words; they represent a code of conduct, a commitment to truth, and a foundation for leadership.
Temporary Delusions, Societal Dysfunction, and Public Policy
Every so often, a politician says something that reveals much more than he intends. There are several states in which the rational legislators (usually the Republicans) are trying to reintroduce common sense, in subject areas where the irrational legislators (usually the Democrats) have banned or even forbidden it. Wisconsin is the site of such a …
Questions and Answers
Sean gets lots of letters asking some pretty interesting questions. Herein, he answers some…in his own special way.
The Private Sector. They Expect Results. So Should The Public.
As bureaucrats in the US and elsewhere, are being required to work and justify their existence, they are upset. Welcome to the real world.
Five Years Ago in Huntsville
Five years ago I was in Huntsville when the world shut down. Five years. Almost to the day. I’ll never forget it.
It Takes a Special Kind of Stupid to be a Liberal Today
I have referred to America’s third-oldest continuously-published daily newspaper as The Philadelphia Enquirer, as RedState writer Mike Miller mistakenly referred to it, so I didn’t originate it, but, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I sometimes think of it as very apt. The newspaper, the past winner of twenty Pulitzer Prizes, has gone …
Part III: “Precision and Patriotism: The Modern Legacy of U.S. Military Marksmanship”
As the 20th century progressed, the United States continued to strengthen its marksmanship standards—both in and out of uniform.
Petulant Democrats in an All-out Favorability Freefall
In a recent NBC News and Hart Research poll, just 27 percent of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably. A CNN poll revealed that only 29 percent of the respondents had a favorable outlook toward the Democrats.
Part II: A Nation of Riflemen: Roosevelt, the DCM, and a Culture of Shooting
President Theodore Roosevelt brought moral clarity and public enthusiasm to the growing marksmanship movement.
My Phone is Smarter Than I Is
I remember my first cellphone. I felt like one bad hombre.
I was in my mid-20s. The cellphone retail salesperson outfitted me with a state-of-the-age phone about the size of a residential General Electric refrigerator.