Watching the maps of Afghanistan displaying the daily growth of Taliban-controlled territories took us older folk back to maps of Vietnam on the evening news in 1975 as the North spread southward like a plague. Sending U. S. Marines back to evacuate the embassies? Tell me about it, as IContinue Reading
“Every term must be redefined…” That is not precisely a citation from the prophet George Orwell. It is however quite akin to his discussion of Newspeak, the linguistic distortions imposed by the Party. But we do well to recognize that the shift from objective parlance to Newspeak did not happenContinue Reading
First, I got the vaccine, OK? Good ol’ Moderna two-shotter 94% effective. So now I go to work on the comments of HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Thursday and of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki the following day. The incoherence of Becerra’s back-and-forth statementsContinue Reading
Randi Weingarten. President of the American Federation of Teachers, promises a deep war chest for the defense of AFT teachers who break state laws by teaching Critical Race Theory anyway? Well, it’s your money, and your children’s minds… Door-to-door vaccinations, Mr. Biden? Doesn’t that precede door-to-door gun grabs, door-to-door mostContinue Reading
The journalistic accounting of public events is so very tedious and predictable. Really I do not believe that many of us who have been around more than a few years were surprised by the events surrounding the celebration of Independence Day. What to say of many in high places whoContinue Reading
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
The things that land in my mailbox all too frequently? Legitimate appeals for benevolence and contributions are one thing. But the repetitious NRA Member Renewal notices sent about every six weeks throughout the year, way too many Medicare supplement and life insurance company offers, and so on, are another. It’sContinue 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
The texts for this morning, the Third Sunday after Pentecost, speak of the Father’s love of calling forth and employing the less apparent things in this life to bear witness to His greatness and glory, and to accomplish His purposes. I avoided customary terms such as ‘smaller’ and ‘insignificant’ justContinue 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 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