The current government barely touches the causes of mental illnesses in this country. I wonder if the current government is partly responsible for them. The instances are many, but here are a few samples: Calling for the defunding of the police repeatedly, then doing the about-face and blaming theContinue Reading
SO MUCH STUPIDITY, SO LITTLE TIME… I have become ‘stalled’ lately, repeatedly. Learning this new software, tending to all the security details, sorting my way through the needed plug-ins, photo sources and so on, and I have yet to brook the SEO issues that may broaden the participation and readership.Continue Reading
Alas, Biden’s issue with the Catholic bishops over his privilege to receive Holy Communion from the Catholic Church is political. Yes, I conclude that the decision of the faithful bishops is political in its formation and consequences, but not at all in their intention. I do not see how weContinue Reading
All the following, in the same twenty-four hours, causing my head to spin? There is little of it that rings new for anyone who follows the news. It is so redundantly tedious as to aggravate depressions while we struggle to rise above it, exploring imagined avenues of confrontation that willContinue Reading
Yes, that was a $75,000.00 robotic “dog” walking, or being walked, in a New York City park. It looked like a biker’s ‘teardrop’ gas tank on stilts. The four-legged contraption meandered clumsily up to a little girl in a stroller, seemingly wanting to investigate the little human in the seat.Continue Reading
On Tuesday, Judge James E. Plowman Jr. of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia, granted an injunction to reinstate physical education teacher Byron Cross to his post in that county’s school system. His offense leading to the suspension? Mr. Cross opposed on First Amendment grounds a regulation forcing school system employeesContinue Reading
[I AM REPOSTING MY COMMENTS FROM 11 APRIL IN PART,SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER, AS THE SAME TEXT FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES USED TO SUPPORT “CHRISTIAN COMMUNISM” HAS RESURFACED IN TODAY’S LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST]. I CAN JUST IMAGINE THE PREACHING IN THE LEFTIST ‘CHURCHES’Continue Reading
As I graduated high school a very young 17, I could not find a full-time entry-level position with a company due to insurance regulations. As I had no interest in college then, the choice before me was either to find employment allowable for high-schoolers or join the military. So IContinue Reading
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post concerning human attempts to determine legally when life begins, or when it matters, I call to our remembrance this quote from the “Ethics” of the sainted Rev. Dr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Marriage involves acknowledgement of the right to life that is to come into being,Continue Reading
To preface my comments below, I remind the reader that this site is about changing cultural understandings, concentrating on underlying assumptions, and not so much about changing particular legislation as the primary focus. I am neither lawyer nor political partisan, as my clumsy terminology below will no doubt reveal. IContinue Reading
To begin this post, I am forwarding a link to an article in today’s Daily Signal. It is a report on Sen. Jim Inhofe’s warnings of just how near this country is to losing control of its electoral processes to Washington as attacks on the Electoral College persist. It containsContinue Reading
PART I – WHAT IT IS On May 10, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reported that its Sierra-Pacific Synod proudly elected one Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer as its new bishop. The ELCA release was careful to note that the new Bishop-elect’s pronouns are (they/their/them), and that they is [smartassContinue Reading
THE REAL REASONS WHY THE WORKER WON’T WORK U. S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said yesterday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” show that: “The number one reason now that people aren’t going back to work is what you said: fear. Or if they can’t find childcare or schools are stillContinue Reading
James Bryce (1838-1922) was an eminent British legal historian and statesman who had a high regard for the American republic. First Viscount Bryce served as Ambassador to the United States from 1907-1913. In 1888, he published The American Commonwealth, a thorough examination of our founding documents and political system. OneContinue Reading
The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels has attained the status of a “classic” among the American people, a book that everyone has heard of, but no one reads. The reality is that forces are at work in this country and have been for years,Continue Reading