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.
Society
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.
How many Modern Churches have Turned Faith into Facts, Jesus into a Mascot, and Grace into a Transaction
Many churches today struggle not because the Bible is unclear, but because familiar words have quietly changed meaning. Over time, Christian language has been softened, shortened, or modernized in ways that feel harmless.
Our Father
Help us to love one another. Help us to find beauty in each fellow human being. Beauty within each soul who crosses our path today. Teach us to find beauty in our enemies.
NIL and the Death of College Football: When the Inmates Run the Yard; Part IV of the “The Student-Athlete Is Dead” Series
College football didn’t just lose its way—it pawned its compass, financed a leased Lamborghini, and told tradition to hit the transfer portal.
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.
Alabama Versus Indiana
The televised tumult of a 90,278-person crowd inside Los Angeles County’s Rose Bowl Stadium was blaring through the feeble Samsung speakers. God wanted Alabama to win. That much we knew.
Trading In Discontent
One can see that the Left has evolved from being merely an opposition party to becoming a traitorous force, reminiscent of revolutionaries. They will no longer settle for minor tweaks to our great country. They want an end to it as we know it.
The Worldview of Baby Boomers Explained
In school, Baby Boomers learned to love America — the ideal of it — Freedom, Independence, Self-governance — the individual over the collective. “The sky’s the limit.” We learned independence & liberty were why people around the world wanted to be Americans. We saw the benefits of hard work, honesty, & charity.
Why Do We Defer to the Political Class? Automatic deference is contrary to human nature
There is a societal belief that people with the “right” credentials should be deferred to in matters associated with those credentials. The more credentials one “earns,” the more deference shown.
Let’s Start The New Year With A Laugh: Liberals Can Be So Entertaining
I find listening to & talking with Liberals an endless source of amusement. Granted, there are few discussions because they quickly descend into insults & threats when you ask a question the Lib doesn’t like. Here are nine short vignettes of my interactions with Liberals since businessman Donald J. Trump won his first election.
The Great Generation
Carole’s mother was young. Twenty-two years old. She was married and pregnant with her second child. The year was 1945.
The War was freshly over. The Depression was still a recent memory. Carole’s mother wanted to buy her husband a gift for his birthday. He was turning 25.
2025 Rear -View Awards
If hindsight is 20/20, then 2025 was a year where irony is produced by algorithms and politicians think diplomacy is a TikTok trend. To toast our survival is the annual Rear-View Awards, the only column where irony is not just a category, it is the entire piece.
After 15 Years
I’m saddened that there is a video of me circulating the internet, playing a banjo, with 7 million views, where the majority of commenters are labeling me a racist.
Two Free Societies, Two Very Different Views of Law-Abiding Gun Owners
In the United States—particularly in states like Michigan—firearm ownership is treated as a normal attribute of a free citizen. In Australia, firearm ownership is treated as a conditional privilege granted by the state.
The Wolf, the Myth, and the People Who’ve Never Lived in the Woods
There’s a reason our ancestors didn’t hold hands, light candles, and sing to wolves. They eradicated them. Not out of ignorance, not out of cruelty, but out of lived experience. Wolves weren’t abstract symbols on a Patagonia catalog; they were competitors, livestock killers, and a direct threat to survival.
The Failed Religion Masquerading as Scholarship: And Why It’s Time to Sweep This Nonsense Into the Trash Bin of History
Every few years, America picks up some shiny new bad idea, polishes it with jargon, markets it with hashtags, and forces the rest of us to pretend it’s brilliant. Today, the reigning champion of American intellectual embarrassment is something called Critical Theory
Michigan DNR: The Agency Working Overtime to Kill Hunting (And Calling It “Science”)
If your goal were to sabotage Michigan’s hunting tradition, hollow out rural economies, frustrate every sportsman in the state, you couldn’t design a better system than the one the Michigan DNR proudly operates today.