“Wishing doesn’t make things so. It’s time to get hard-nosed and real about what’s going on so we can stop this nightmare before it spins completely out of control.” — Col. Kurt Schlichter, U.S. Army, Ret. Conservative columnist/commentator Kurt Schlichter — who is also a retired Army colonel and a trial lawyer — put out […]
It seems that I underestimated the time I needed to write the article I planned to this week. It will have to wait until next week. Meanwhile, I refer you to three articles for your consideration which have been put out by faculty from The Heritage Foundation. Since I’m a bit pressed for time to […]
“If we thoughtfully and tenaciously combine populist energy with conservative principles, it is a fight we can win.” — Kevin D. Roberts Kevin D. Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and former CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, gave a talk at Hillsdale College last October. As usual, the folks at Hillsdale have adapted […]
“Increasingly, the citizen stands denuded before the total state, stripped of the protection of mediating non-civil private institutions and even of the inherited liberties of private civil law.” — Joe Boot In last week’s Part 1, Dr. Joseph Boot commented on failed attempts at church/state/society relationships due to both faulty designs and abuses by those […]
“There has clearly been a radical departure from our Christian moorings in acknowledgement and confession of the sovereignty of God in Jesus Christ for all humanity.” — Joe Boot The book: Ruler of Kings: Toward a Christian Vision of Government (2022) The author: Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot, a British-Canadian pastor, apologist, and cultural theologian I […]
As I did for my first post in 2023, I have considered the AVftR posts of the previous two years and picked the top ones. Specifically, by either the importance of the subject and/or my having written (rather than cited) the bulk of the content, I thought these posts were the best ones I put […]
It’s a safe bet that bureaucrats of the Deep State (among others) will do their level best to stymie Trump from accomplishing his agenda. I would say that that starts on Day 1, i.e., when he is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025. But, as Kurt Schlichter said, it has already begun: “[T]here are reports […]
“Price-fixing always does harm and it is never a cure for inflation.” — Hazlitt & Wesbury In May 1972, the first issue of Imprimis featured an article (“The Dangers of Price Controls”) by Henry Hazlitt, the noted author/journalist on matters of business and economics. The Federal Reserve had been printing a lot of money to […]
Last month, I blogged on “YouTube Channels I Enjoy and You Might, Too: Science & Tech”, and this is the first of two follow-ups on different subject areas. Even the two terms “politics and culture” don’t quite communicate everything I crowd under this informational umbrella, so to speak. Add in societal issues and history and […]
“I’ll never turn to the dark side. You have failed, your highness.” — Luke Skywalker So-called “progressives” these days tend to see everything through a progressive lens. (That’s an optometry pun, by the way.) When they aren’t declaring innocent things (e.g., PBJ sandwiches) as racist or feminist or Nazi or whatever, they are claiming decades-old […]
