An Old Man on an Airplane
I’m on a plane awaiting takeoff. My carry-on bag is above me in the compartment. A compartment which, according to FAA regulations, is slightly too small for everyone’s carry-on bags.
Culture
Where Have America’s Men Gone?
A new Department of Labor report on men found that the American labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. This means close to one-third of all men of working age are not included in the labor force.
DEI Went Wrong with Its First Step
The New York Times recently sponsored a panel discussion : “Did D.E.I Go Too Far?” From the panel’s discussion, it’s apparent that the “experts” remain as clueless about DEI’s downfall, as they were about its potential.
Growing up without a father
In the 1960s, I was the boy who was embarrassed about growing up without a father in small-town Mt Sterling, Kentucky. Divorce was far less common at the time, and all of the kids I knew in Mt Sterling Elementary School had fathers, or at least the ones about whom I knew anything about their …
Expecting Core Values In A Society Where There Is Increasingly No Such Thing
Dude, get over yourself: it’s not. Unless you mean the occasion where a president will speak about how we came to be a free nation in which a people can pursue any manner of vocation they desire. Whatever you have lapped up or cherry-picked from the LSMBTGANF propaganda is not of interest to those gathering for a Memorial Day speech that celebrates the sacrifices of those who gave their all for this nation.
The Never-Ending Gun Control Saga
Every few years, we’re told the next gun law will finally make us safe. A new ban. A new restriction. A new list of prohibited features. Yet criminals continue doing what criminals have always done—ignoring the law. The never-ending gun control saga isn’t really about stopping crime anymore; it’s about regulating the tools of people who already follow the rules. When lawmakers focus on trigger bars, magazine capacities, and cosmetic features instead of violent offenders, many Americans see a troubling pattern: the target keeps moving, the promises never materialize, and freedom gets chipped away one regulation at a time. The tool was never the problem. The human using it was.
The Boiling Pot
An old fable finds a frog in a pot of water heating on a fire. The frog becomes complacent as the water warms and before he realizes – he’s cooked. Europe was in a “pot” as Nazism warmed in the 1930s. When Hitler invaded Poland, the EU was cooking and couldn’t get out by themselves.
Living the Dream of the Neverlanding
Most people spend their lives dreaming about freedom while signing another payment, another contract, another obligation. Then along comes Captain Steve and the Neverlanding—a homemade houseboat built from lumber, blue barrels, grit, and a stubborn refusal to accept that life must be lived according to someone else’s blueprint. Drifting across the Great Lakes with his dog and a floating front porch, Steve accidentally became a symbol of something modern society desperately misses: adventure, self-reliance, and the courage to untie the dock lines. The Neverlanding isn’t just a boat—it’s a reminder that sometimes the richest life isn’t found in what you own, but in what you’re willing to leave behind.
At what point does a columnist slanting or hiding information to one side become lying through his scummy teeth?
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s communist, oops, sorry, columnist Will Bunch frequently shades the truth, slanting it as far left as he possibly can, but there’s a difference between shading the truth and lying through his scummy teeth. Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark …
The Enlightenment and Religion
The enlightenment as a philosophical movement is sometimes difficult to understand in that many of the arguments seem to be contrived in the style of the Sophists that so angered Plato.
Making DC worthy of our greatness
For the first time in decades, Washington should be safe and clean enough to visit—just in time for the 250th celebration of independence.
The A Word: American Cheese and Other Offenses
It’s weird. Being back in America again. For one thing, they don’t call it “America” over in Europe. It’s bad form. They call it “the U.S.”
The problems from the 19th Amendment and women’s voting rights
Mike Borowski is the latest addition to AFNN’s stable of awesome writers. A retired combat medic, Mike has a no-holds-barred manner of broaching uncomfortable subjects. Welcome aboard Mike!
The Radical Left & Islam: A Marriage Headed for A Bad Divorce
It would be difficult not to notice how chummy the radical left and Islam are. It’s a natural marriage. Both are drawn to hatred and violence toward anyone who disbelieves their convictions and are equally drawn to contempt for a Judeo-Christian, democratic, Western-style culture.
Owned and Operated: How Oligarchs Turned American Politics Into Tribal Reality TV
America still pretends elections are grassroots democracy while billionaires, super PACs, media empires, and donor networks quietly write the script behind the curtain. The takedown of Thomas Massie exposed the modern system in full view: loyalty to the political machine now matters more than principles, and dissent against foreign policy orthodoxy or party leadership triggers a flood of money, propaganda, and coordinated political punishment. Meanwhile, millions of cable-news-addicted voters rage on command over carefully curated culture-war distractions while the oligarch class tightens its grip on both parties, the media, and the national narrative.
James Talarico: a representative of failing ‘progressive’ Christianity, and a hypocrite to boot
In a move reminiscent of Democratic congressional candidate Amy McGrath Hnderson being caught on tape, fund raising in Massachusetts for a congressional seat in the Bluegrass State, saying “I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky,” Texas Democratic Senate nominee was caught on tape saying, in a 2022 …
Cortisol Nation: How Fear Became America’s Operating System
America has become a 24-hour cortisol factory—financial panic, political theater, algorithmic outrage, and endless crisis propaganda pumped straight into the nervous system like an IV drip of anxiety. We are chemically exhausted, spiritually distracted, and psychologically manipulated into living as though Satan runs the universe and God is merely filing paperwork in the background. Fear has become America’s unofficial state religion: fear of collapse, fear of irrelevance, fear of war, fear of each other. But fear is just misplaced faith. It is confidence that darkness will win. The modern machine profits from keeping people terrified because frightened populations are easier to control, easier to sell to, and easier to herd. Scripture’s command to “fear not” was never naive optimism—it was spiritual defiance. The real divide today is not left versus right; it is those discipled by fear versus those anchored in faith.
Live Not By Lies: The Gulag Lesson America Forgot
“Socialism does not collapse because it runs out of money. It collapses because it runs out of truth. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn understood this better than almost anyone alive. The Soviet Union was not held together by productivity, innovation, or freedom. It was held together by fear and a mountain of compulsory lies. Citizens learned to repeat obvious nonsense simply to survive. Newspapers reported record harvests while shelves sat empty. The state called itself a workers’ paradise while millions disappeared into camps. As the Bible warns in The Bible, Satan is ‘the father of lies,’ and every authoritarian system follows the same blueprint: suppress truth, punish dissent, and force the population to publicly kneel before fiction. The gulag was not the beginning of the process. It was the final invoice.”
Memorial Day 2026 – Reflecting On Those Who Gave The Last Full Measure
This is a speech I will be delivering at a Memorial Day ceremony in my hometown. I thought I would share it with those who are willing to take a few minutes to read.