Author Archive
“Our nation is about to be transformed, thanks to the #MeToo movement…. #MeToo is going to unleash a new torrent of gender and race quotas throughout the economy and culture, [and] the net consequence will be a loss of American competitiveness and scientific achievement.” — Heather MacDonald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan […]
“The chief modern rival of Christianity is Liberalism.” — Rev. J. Gresham Machen As a follow-up of sorts to last week’s post, I decided to share an excerpt from a modern Christian classic, Christianity and Liberalism (1923), by another famous “fundamentalist”* (though he would have identified as a conservative evangelical and Presbyterian), J. Gresham Machen. […]
“In 1909 God moved two Christian laymen to set aside a large sum of money for issuing twelve volumes that would set forth the fundamentals of the Christian faith, and which were to be sent free to ministers of the gospel, missionaries, Sunday School superintendents, and others engaged in aggressive Christian work throughout the English […]
“When a person is stripped of their constitutional rights, albeit temporarily, without being given the chance to make their own case based on what can be entirely arbitrary accusations, this is the removal of due process.” — Matt Agorist, independent journalist and Editor-at-Large at the Free Thought Project Following the mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas […]
I’m not a regular listener of Rush Limbaugh. But, on those rare occasions when I’m driving and find him on the air, I often find his monologues interesting and even insightful. He has been around quite awhile and deserves much respect. But, even he can’t recognize everything that’s going on in the socio-cultural politisphere. To […]
I’m a bit pressed for time this week, but I wanted to call your attention to a recent tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old educator/activist/community organizer (for Bernie Sanders) and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who has been endorsed by various progressive and civil rights organizations (e.g., BLM, MoveOn) and individuals. […]
“[E]xplore the hypothetical legal ramifications of comic book tropes, characters, and powers, down to the most deliciously trivial detail.” Don’t worry, you’re on the right blog. Not long ago on my “Heroes and Aliens” pop-culture blog, I shared three posts in which I presented some material from the book The Law of Superheroes (2012) by […]
Since I am working on other stuff, I have another guest commentary from a Facebook friend for you this week. Brendan Paul Burnett teaches High School History, Geography, and “Christian Principles and Relationships” at a Christian school in Australia, while he works on his THIRD and FOURTH Master’s degrees — MTeach(Sec) and MDiv. He had […]
“Gallup reports that just 32 percent of Democrats call themselves ‘extremely proud’ of their national identity, compared with 74 percent of Republicans who say the same.” — Ben Shapiro, Newsweek The amount of anti-American sentiment these days is truly amazing. Even those who benefit from the (relative) freedoms and wealth of American society and business […]
“I sought there [in America] an image of democracy itself, its tendencies, its character, its prejudices, its passions; I wanted to know democracy, if only to know at least what we must hope or fear from it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America I’m no political historian, but if I had to guess, I’d […]
