The left has long fancied itself as the champion of science, insisting for years now that the tools of logic and reason belong to no one else. By extension, it often considers conservatives Neanderthalic savages who place their faith in…
Reading the headlines these days, it seems America is besieged by countless threats. China, deficits, a broken educational system, there’s no shortage of monsters under our proverbial bed intent on doing us in. But lurking in the shadows, virtually unnoticed,…
Terrorists, it seems, hate lots of things. And most of those things are either rooted in or expressions of freedom. Some hate speech that contradicts their beliefs; others clothing that goes against their own religious or cultural norms; and yet…
History, it seems, has come full circle. A little more than two years after Donald Trump rocked the Republican establishment and shocked the world with the electoral upset of the century, a motley crew of Democrats is jockeying to unseat…
I’m so old I remember when journalists at least pretended to be objective. While they certainly had their prejudices, the journalistic old guard rarely tattooed them on their foreheads or paraded them around like show poodles on leashes. If you…
The current stalemate in Washington, and the related partisan bickering, are producing no shortage of nefarious talking points. From the idea that today’s border situation mirrors the Ellis Island of a century ago to the bizarre declaration that walls and fences are…
In today’s hyperpartisan political environment, it’s rare that I manage to give my liberal friends even the slightest moment of pause. But occasionally, when debates on Trumpism and conservatism inevitably turn to Reaganism, and they begin to parrot the usual…
In today’s hyperpartisan political environment, it’s rare that I manage to give my liberal friends even the slightest moment of pause. But occasionally, when debates on Trumpism and conservatism inevitably turn to Reaganism, and they begin to parrot the usual…
As a child, I was terrified to fly. Still am to some degree. But back then, seeing the aftermaths of the occasional plane crash on the evening news filled me with unspeakable terror. I always dreamed of going to Europe,…