On the morning of May 23, 1701, Captain William Kidd found himself kneeling alongside a motley assortment of unwashed felons in the chapel of London’s notorious Newgate Prison, being lectured by a man of God about the atrophied condition of… Read More ›
“But you can’t start. Only a baby can start. You and me – why, we’re all that’s been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that’s us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and… Read More ›
From one body to the next there was little in the way of variety; nothing to suggest that what had happened here was anything less than slaughter. Some of the corpses had been shot through the temples, others through the… Read More ›
All too often, members of the American punditry mistake the unfortunate or the coincidental for the ironic. For example, Washington Times Communities contributor and pro-lifer Paul E. Rondeau recently penned an article in which he described the, “titanic irony” of… Read More ›
During the honeymoon period following President Obama’s 1st successful bid for The White House, there was a great deal of talk about the former Senator from Illinois surrounding himself with a “Team of Rivals” as Abraham Lincoln did when he… Read More ›
Imagine a child, an infant, lying on a sparsely covered metal cot. Her bedclothes are soiled since the orphanage she lives in is too poorly funded to provide the children with diapers. Early in the morning she and her unfortunate… Read More ›
It might be thought of as unwise to base a tenet of one’s life philosophy on a comic strip, but when the comic in question is Calvin & Hobbes and the author Bill Watterson, I think that an exception should… Read More ›
There is a brutal irony in the fact that the potential legal grounding for the disassembling of affirmative action programs in our nation’s colleges lies in The 14th Amendment and in The Civil Rights Act of 1964, two pieces of… Read More ›
Red America forms a thick, inland L in the flat midsection of our country, bordered as much by geography as by political preference. The Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River shepherd the younger constituents of this conservative nation-within-a-nation down towards the… Read More ›
Thanksgiving is one of those things in American life that’s good not to think about too hard for fear of ruining the holiday altogether. In a vacuum, and as explained to a 3rd grader, Thanksgiving is a wholesome, historic parable… Read More ›
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