Politics

Is Star Wars Supposed to Be Ideologically Progressive?

Posted by on November 3, 2024 at 6:39 pm

“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 […]

Sleepwalking Toward Tyranny

Posted by on October 27, 2024 at 7:02 pm

“Like the proverbial frog slowly boiled to death for failing to detect the rising temperature of the water, we are sleepwalking toward tyranny.” — Joe Boot, Ruler of Kings I have cited twice before from Ruler of Kings: Toward a Christian Vision of Government, written by apologist, pastor, and cultural theologian Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot. […]

When Heresy Creeps into the Christian Cultural Worldview

Posted by on October 6, 2024 at 8:30 pm

“Final authority resides only with the Author of all creation, who places human beings in His creation, made in His image, and subject to His Law-Word for all things. This is no less true in biology and history than in political science or theology.” — Joe Boot, Ruler of Kings I finished a book a […]

Senate Report on Secret Service Failure in Butler County

Posted by on September 29, 2024 at 7:28 pm

“A bipartisan Senate report released Wednesday blasts the U.S. Secret Service for several significant failures that led to the near-fatal assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, over the summer.” — Casey Harper, The Center Square The interim report referenced in the above quote was released by Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), […]

Countering Abolitionist Accusations of Pro-Lifers’ Moral Compromise

Posted by on September 15, 2024 at 7:32 pm

“Even with a bill that they believe will or could be a successful end run around the tyranny of the federal judiciary, [those who passed the Texas ‘heartbeat’ bill] still chose to violate God’s law absent any even pragmatically compelling reason to do so. This is indicative of an addiction to compromise on the part […]

The Truth About Tariffs

Posted by on September 8, 2024 at 6:39 pm

“Do tariffs defy the laws of supply and demand and lift our standard of living?” — opening question in “Separating Tariff Facts from Tariff Fictions” by Erica York, Cato Institute Every once in awhile, the issue of tariffs comes up in the news. Even with my limited knowledge of economics and tariffs, I know that, […]

About Those Back-Alley Abortions…

Posted by on September 1, 2024 at 7:54 pm

“These are the faces of women who died because they could not obtain safe and legal abortions. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, these pictures could include your daughter, sister, mother, best friend, granddaughter.” — found on home page (in 2005) for the website of the National Organization for Women (NOW) when Justice O’Connor announced […]

The Cult of the Expert

Posted by on August 18, 2024 at 8:07 pm

“The idea that monetary policy is politically neutral is a convenient fiction rather than a reflection of reality.” — Stephen D. King, British economist and journalist One of the books I began reading recently is Ruler of Kings: Toward a Christian Vision of Government by Joseph Boot. Dr. Boot is a cultural theologian, leading Christian […]

The Rogue Prosecutor Movement Funded by Leftist Billionaires

Posted by on August 11, 2024 at 7:27 pm

“This well-funded and organized movement is not about liberal versus conservative, Democrat versus Republican, or black versus white. It is about power.” — Charles “Cully” Stimson, attorney, author, and deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies This week’s post consists primarily of portions of an Imprimis article adapted from […]

Correcting Leftist Lies About Project 2025

Posted by on July 14, 2024 at 7:31 pm

In June of last year, I wrote a post about a particular section of The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” that dealt with Deep State bureaucracy. “Project 2025” wasn’t on a lot of people’s radar then, but it certainly is now. The Left are scared of it, and Donald Trump is even distancing himself from it. […]