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Trying to Understand the Meaning of It All
It’s the end of the year -- a remarkable year -- and all the experts and philosophizers are trying to understand what is going on. Their takes range from the religious to the ideological to the sociological to the scientific.The question:…
Staycations to Starships
According to Tolkien, hobbits don't like to travel. Bilbo Baggins discovered his liking for travel later in life and he communicated his discovery to his nephew, Frodo, “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto…
A Spiteful Biden Adds to His Failed Legacy
President Joe Biden, a medically confirmed non-compos mentis elderly man, has displayed the resolute spitefulness that comes with the Alzheimer’s disease, even while allegedly serving his duties as President of the United States.Coming on…
Who the Hell is Running the Country?
In name, Joe Biden is America’s 46th president. His “signature” is on official documents. He is photographed periodically, whether in the Oval Office, wandering in foreign lands, or inappropriately sniffing or nibbling young children.But he…
What Should President Trump Do For Sub-Saharan Africans?
I spent just under twenty years in East Africa doing international development work. Since then, I’m often asked, “Have the billions of dollars that Western countries invested in Sub-Saharan Africa since their independence in the early…
Destroying the Gay Myth
It’s amazing how many leftists are ashamed of their bodies but have absolutely zero shame about their minds, their belief systems, or their sexual choices. It’s also amazing how Orwellian Newspeak has conquered the English…
The 2050 Net Zero Climate Scam
Twenty fifty is the official date for net zero emissions. According to the experts, it is the last chance to stop a catastrophic rise in temperature. The leading source for climate change science, the U.N. IPCC, says…
The Best or the Worst of Times?
Now that Christmas Day has passed, I have put down my beloved copy of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and picked up his masterpiece, A Tale of Two Cities. As I have argued before, that novel’s opening sentence…
The Cult of the ‘Hot Assassin’
Now we can add to that fictional list of grotesqueries a few not-at-all fictional categories which not long ago would have been regarded as quite simply unthinkable.After the hell on earth that descended upon innocent Israeli…
The Capital is Like Brigadoon
I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember the musical Brigadoon. It was about a Scottish village that disappears in the mists and only reappears once every hundred years. The District of Columbia and its federal components often remind…