Hong Kong’s Slide into Darkness
The transition of Hong Kong’s democracy into a CCP-run nightmare is painful to watch
How Daniel Panneton Used 1,183 Words to Tell Us That He’s a Great Researcher Who Doesn’t Understand a Single Thing About His Subject
Daniel Panneton tells us, in his Twitter biography, that he is a “Museums worker and online hate researcher”. He also tells us that he is very afraid to let the Unapproved see his tweets. I looked, but was unable to find a significantly more detailed biography of Mr Panneton. A writer for The Atlantic, he …
This is a 40 Year Fight…or More
The Great U.S. Culture War became an open Kultur Kampf in 1962. It took 60 years for one side, called “Commies” for short, to reach the top of institutions which define American Civilization by controlling our culture. It’ll take at least 40 years to pull the Commies down from the top and pull them up branch and root to win America back.
Jim Jordan: 14 FBI Whistleblowers Have Reached Out to House Republicans
In August 2019, a whistleblower filed an anonymous complaint with then-Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson. His friend, who was later determined to be then-National Security Council Director for European Affairs Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman had informed him about a phone call between then-President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that had deeply …
What We’ve Learned or Affirmed from This Pandemic (Part 2)
Greetings my fellow Americans! In Part 1 of this article, I highlighted governmental and large private corporate behavior observed during the COVID-19 pandemic which introduced, and/or reinforced, notions of corruption and collusion within and between these entities. In this Part 2, I’d like to share some thoughts about the public’s reaction and conduct as this …
How Political Correctness & Cancel Culture are Destroying America (Part 2)
Vladimir Lenin, the man who in 1917 created the now-defunct one-party socialist state called The Soviet Union, understood how critical education is in molding pliant minds. “Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted,” he once said. Lenin knew that planting the seeds of communist …
Three Formerly Great Cities…Destroyed by Democrats
LEDE: Liberal politicians and policies are destroying our formerly great cities. And there is no end in sight. “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” Tennessee Williams As my wife and I are approaching retirement age, we sometimes contemplate relocating back to our hometown of New Orleans. …
‘John Fetterman Is Not Okay’: The Dems Best Chance to Flip a Senate Seat May Have Run Into a Glitch
Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman held his first campaign rally since being sidelined by a stroke in mid-May on Friday in Erie, Pennsylvania. Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, faces Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz in the race for the open seat currently occupied by Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who is retiring. Democrats consider this …
What We’ve Learned or Affirmed from This Pandemic (Part 1)
Greetings my fellow Americans! Before I dive into this article, I’d like to briefly explain my intent with my regularly aforementioned salutation. It is directed at everyone (regardless of nationality) who has come to appreciate just how exceptional the original American approach to society and civilization, based on individual liberty and God-given rights, has been …
How Political Correctness & Cancel Culture are Destroying America (Part 1)
A long time ago, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Kansas editor named William Allen White wrote an editorial in the Emporia Gazette entitled “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” In it, he railed against obtuse populist politicians and visionless citizens who he was convinced were running Kansas (my home state) into the ground. If White were around today, …
Creating the Monster: The American Bureaucracy
Creating the Monster: The American Bureaucracy Source: http://www.fernbyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/photo-frankenstein-1931-2.jpg “The path toward the creation of the modern American state was not linear as some would suspect, but neither was it merely thrown off course by the Progressives in the early twentieth century. It began in the Founding era itself.” “The most powerful and lasting legacy of …
Ayatollah-Linked Paper Celebrates Iranian Sympathizer’s Successful Attack in America: ‘A Thousand Bravos’
Moments before novelist Salman Rushdie was to deliver a lecture on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, a man rushed the stage and stabbed him repeatedly before he was subdued. Rushdie was immediately airlifted to a hospital for surgery. According to a Friday evening email to The Associated Press from his agent, Andrew …
Experts, All Around Us
If you go and sample Youtube, to see how to do something, or how to think about something, the experts are out in force, wanting you and I to believe something. Many are true experts, not trying to sell anything, except to make you think about what your lying eyes are telling you, and that …
More Wisdom From Tupelo Brake
“What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?” I think about this verse every time I read or hear something absolutely and completely stupid about Climate Change. People who spout this endless barrage of garbage have no idea of man’s place on Earth, much less in the Solar System or the Universe. They remind …
Tiny, But Mighty
Our world seems to be hopelessly out of control. Maybe we can learn from the hummingbird.
The U.S. Government Has Been Thoroughly Corrupted
Against all odds, the fundamental transformation of the United States, envisioned by former President Barack Obama and implemented by his equally radical attorney general, Eric Holder, has come to pass. Typically a quiet time in our nation’s capital, seismic events in the past two weeks have combined to complete the metamorphosis. Sadly, America can no …
“I’m From the Government, and I’m Here to Help.”
I will start out with full disclosure: I am not a fan of Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Linda Blackford. She’s a liberal writer among a seemingly all-liberal editorial staff at what my best friend used to call the Herald-Liberal. But I have to laugh when a supporter of more government action winds up complaining about the …