CULTURE
The Joy of Football: The Super Bowl Offers a Too-Rare Celebration of Goal-Achievement
Ultimately, sporting events like football’s Super Bowl offer a microcosmic vision of what “real life” could, and should, be like.
Bush’s Faith is Immoral, But He’s Better Than His Christian Critics
The writer of a letter recently appearing in The Tennessean says the president’s religious faith conflicts with his decision to go to war in Iraq. Many of Bush’s Christian critics share this opinion. And in one sense they’re right. There is indeed a...
Egalitarianism: The New Torture Rack
If you have ever wondered why the number of great artists, intellects and achievers has dwindled, you should blame egalitarianism.
Religion and Capitalism Are Antithetical
The Defenders of Capitalism Should Invoke Secularism and Reason, Not Religion and Faith, as Their Justification
A Commercialized Christmas Carol
Profits, not prophets, allow Christmas giving– and year-round living. The dollar sign, not mystical icons, deserves to top one’s tree.
Goodness Through a Mystical Lens
Q: I have been in an ongoing discussion with a friend regarding belief in a higher, supernatural being. After many conversations, it finally became clear his true reasoning for believing: he believes that humans are essentially base, murderous, thieving, pillaging...
The Psychology of Sexual Arousal
Q: Why do men seem to enjoy viewing women naked (e.g., in photos, real life, etc.) much more than women seem to enjoy looking at naked men? It seems men are much more “turned on” romantically/sexually by the visual aspects of the opposite sex, than the...
PC Ethics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The following is a letter written in response to some accusations made by an unnamed professor against student Alexander Marriott as detailed in A Victory Against Political Correctness: Rebel Yell Apologizes to Alexander Marriott. Now that I am back on the job I have...
Just Anti-Social
We’ve loaded him with a lot of taxes And rules and codes but there’s something funny; In spite of the way his burden waxes The son-of-a-gun is making money! Whenever he’s given a boost to trade We’ve taken an extra tribute off it, But still the...
The Thinker
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop’s clamor The seeker may find the Thought, The Thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel! The drudge may fret and...
What Businessmen Should Learn from Homeschoolers: Lessons from the CBS ‘News’ Assault on the Mind
A recent CBS “news” program “The Dark Side of Homeschooling” was a frontal assault, by smears and innuendo, against individual freedom and independence. As a coffin was carried into a cemetery, we were told that homeschooling can hide child...
Man
Weak and puny, small and frail, Helpless he with tooth or nail, In a world of fang and claw Where sheer power makes the law. INto battle he had gone With the shaggy mastodon, With the cruel beasts of prey Snarling in their lust to slay, Thirsting for the taste of...
Why Not?
Why shouldn’t the soul of a mortal be proud? Life goes, it is true, like a swift-flying cloud But while it is going and ere he has died A man may do many things worthy of pride The high and the humble, the meek and the brave, Are all of them destined in time for...
Christopher Columbus, We Salute You
Most Columbus Days are marked by rabid condemnations of the explorer as a genocidal maniac bent on destroying the peaceful and innocent native peoples who populated the Caribbean islands which Columbus discovered. These condemnations are not only unwarranted but...
Who Whipped Communism?
Soviet President Brezhnev, one of the last of the Soviet Communist dictators, hated the Catholic Church, according to conversations reported in The Wall Street Journal. Back during the Cold War Brezhnev is quoted as saying, “Sooner or later [the Church] would...
School Performances
Many of the pronouncements coming from those who run our public schools range from fallacies to frauds. The new book “No Excuses” by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom exposes a number of these self-serving lies. You may have heard how hard it is to find...
Faith’s War Against Worldliness
When stripped of details, Christianity and Islam are identical in essentials.
Hollywood’s Favorite Child Molester
One of the most popular movies currently playing at the box office, “Jeepers Creepers 2,” is a teen horror flick directed by a stomach-turning registered sex offender who was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old-boy he targeted, groomed, seduced, and...
Roasting Walter Williams
At George Mason University, they are giving a “roast” — that peculiarly American combination of praise and ridicule — to Walter Williams, professor of economics and columnist extraordinaire. Although I cannot be there, let me participate vicariously with a few observations about Walter.
Remember Flight 93
Flight 93 should be remembered for many reasons. Foremost is that it was the first victory in the War on Terrorism, though it came at a high price. The terrorists’ plan depended on the passenger’s common assumption that their temporary cooperation with...
Experts Without Expertise: Liberation’s Children
We may become the first society destroyed by its own experts — especially experts in fields where there is no expertise that can be verified by facts. Over the past several decades, no one has been victimized more by so-called experts than parents and children....
Interview with the Political Cartoonist Team of John Cox and Allen Forkum
I first noticed Cox & Forkum when I spotted a cartoon called “The Blogger’s Cycle.” I thought, “Wow. These guys nailed me! I could have written this myself, if only I were that clever and talented.” I immediately read the rest of the...
Thank You, Harry Potter!
With a long-term war in progress and threats of further terrorist attacks on American soil, is it mere escapism to go to movies such as Harry Potter? Not at all; such movies provide something just as essential to winning a war as weapons and soldiers. Harry Potter...
America: Under Rights or “Under God”?
Does the assertion that individuals possess inalienable rights square with the belief that a nation should be “under God”?
Bob Hope: A Uniquely American Archetype
When comedian Bob Hope died on Sunday, at age 100, the media unleashed old clips and canned obituaries and the world has been getting to know him again ever since.
Liberal Segregationists in the Schools
The spirit of George Wallace is alive and well — among left-wing zealots in some of America’s most “progressive” taxpayer-funded schools. In Oberlin, Ohio, local school board president Tony Marshall argues that only black high school teachers...
The New York Times: Poster Child for Inaccurate Reporting
Say what you want about The New York Times, but it still makes more news than any other paper in the United States. By this, I don’t mean in the sense of printing the news, as other papers do, but rather in the sense of news about the Times itself. Consider...
Marilyn Monroe: Through Your Most Grievous Fault
Marilyn Monroe on the screen was an image of pure, innocent, childlike joy in living.
Christianity’s Contribution to Women
American women were baptized into the workforce decades ago. Today they’re running their own businesses, launching their own product lines, are managers, directors, VPs and CEOs. That’s why the recent Southern Baptist Convention’s in-fight over the...
The McWilliams Special, Part 3 of 3
Just how McWilliams felt we had no means of knowing; but we knew our hearts would not beat freely until his infernal Special should slide safely over the last of the 266 miles which still lay between the distressed man and his unfortunate child. From McCloud to...
The McWilliams Special, Part 2 of 3
On the West End we had all night to prepare, and at five o’clock next morning every man in the operating department was on edge. At precisely 3.58 A.M. the McWilliams Special stuck its nose into our division, and Foley-pulled off No. 1 with the 466 — was...
The McWilliams Special, Part 1 of 3
It belongs to the Stories That Never Were Told, this of the McWilliams Special. But it happened years ago, and for that matter McWilliams is dead. It wasn’t grief that killed him, either; though at one time his grief came uncommonly near killing us. It is an odd...
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