Anyone who reads this column knows I am no fan of modern culture with its crudity, inanity, and especially the constant noise which blots out the desire for all but the most shallow of pursuits. This noxious noise has rendered…
Two thousand years ago, one man said to another, “For this I was born and for this I came into the world; to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” The second man…
(A Ghostly Story in Two Parts) Sometime during the night — he was never sure when, since the clock in his office ever-after remained at twelve midnight — he was awakened by what sounded like music from a tinkling piano. “What…
(A Ghostly Story in Two Parts) Liberalism was dead; as dead as a doornail. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. The problem was, at least for the occupant…
The conclusion of Thanksgiving, originally a day of solemn acknowledgement that all that we have that is good is a gift from God, brings us to the celebration of the greatest gift from our Creator: the incarnation of our Savior,…
While watching a football game last week I noticed with interest the PR campaign surrounding the release of the remake of the 1969 classic, True Grit. It was at first, like most intrusions upon my enjoyment of televised sports, an…
We’ve come to a weird place in the history of our nation. With the advent of the Tea Party movement has come a neo-nascent appreciation for our founding documents; particularly the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and with it…
Not a day. Not even for one day were conservatives allowed to bask in the glow of the tremendous victory of last Tuesday. No sooner had the Democrats delayed results in two or three contests long enough to find the…
Every few decades or so, the electorate of our nation manages to produce leaders who almost immediately prove to be so disastrously inept, that many Americans are left asking, “How in the world did we elect these guys?” That question…
Last week, in my inbox appeared an invitation to an event sponsored by a major Beltway liberal organization. They were putting on a talk about the dangers of the Tea Party subtitled “The conservative effort to make everything unconstitutional.” In…
