Moon Landing

On July 20, 1969, millions of people gathered around their televisions to watch Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon.  After a few more landings, our space scientists turned their attention to things like the shuttle.  Now more than fifty years later, we are planning a return […]

Contagious Insanity

The ACLU pressed the state of New Jersey to house prisoners according to their stated sexual identity.  The state agreed, at least on a trial basis.  Recently Demi Minor, a 27 year old transgender male identifying as a female, was transferred from a women’s prison after impregnating two female inmates.  Now he/she is fighting to […]

Pro Choice; Pro Life

Senator Elizabeth Warren recently complained  that “In Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by 3 to 1. We need to shut them down here in Massachusetts, and we need to shut them down all around the country. […]

The Terror

Goddess of Reason Installed in Notre Dame On July 14, 1789, the Bastille was stormed by French citizens anxious to throw off the yoke of aristocratic oppression.  The leaders of the Revolution had an idealistic dream of a constitutional monarchy founded on the principles of liberte, egality, fraternite.  Within a few years the king had […]

Selective Protection

I’m certain that many of you read that Justice Kananaugh and family were recently harassed while having dinner at a downtown Washington restaurant.  They had to leave the place via a rear door in order to evade the mob. Such conduct is inexcusable.  Democrat Party leaders should condemn it; instead, some of them cheer it […]

End of the World?

In 2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predicted that the world would end in twelve years.  At the time I thought she was referring to the climate crisis.  Now I am coming to believe that she was referring to the anticipated Democrat Party take-over of the Federal government.  The Democrats won control of the House in January 2019 […]

Assault on Innocence

I often observe instances in which enemies of traditional values foist destructive social views on an unsuspecting audience.  This is especially true of the entertainment industry, and I believe the practice to be quite pervasive. Let me provide one small example. I enjoyed the 1990 movie Kindergarten Cop.  It was a fun show, and I’ve […]

In the Belly of the Beast

What transpires in the bowels of the Federal bureaucracy?  Sometimes that bureaucracy is described as a swamp, but perhaps it would be more accurate to compare it to the intestines of a giant leviathan.  That would help explain the occasional leakage of noxious gases.  Something foul is being produced. Recently, Congressman Jim Banks, Chairman of […]

Happy Fourth

Happy 246th birthday, America! Our nation appears more divided than at any time in my memory, and I’ve been around 93 years. Last evening I listened to two historians discuss the current state of division in America.  One of them appeared to believe that it was no great matter.  After all, he said, America has […]

The Charge

On July 3, 1863, my grandfather Clement Jordan and other members of the 18th Virginia infantry regiment assembled under the cover of trees on Seminary Ridge.   They looked across the fields toward Cemetery Ridge and realized that it would be long way to advance under fire.  Nevertheless, when the order came down, they moved forward […]