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New Year's, The 'Especially American Tradition'President Ronald Reagan called the New Year’s celebration “an especially American tradition.” It’s a time brimming with the “optimism and hope we're...
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Muslim Brutality versus the Western traditionI think most of us recoil in horror when we read of the savage practices in Syria and Iraq by the "Islamic State". You don't have to know much history,...
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Saving lives in the Middle EastFaith-based groups race against time, winter cold and Islamist butchers to reduce the slaughterPaul DriessenYazidi and Christian communities trace their Syrian and Iraqi...
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Is this the ultimate dumbing down of education? Has educational success now become just a popularity contest?If "niceness" gets you better grades than intelligence, it seems so.A recent academic paper...
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Once again we find that the Bible is good historyHave archaeologists discovered where Jesus was sentenced to death? Site at Herod's Palace 'matches Gospel of John description'The exact spot upon which...
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Islam's great gap -- 700 to 900 AD -- and the destruction of Roman civilization. Was North African piracy the revenge of Carthage?Thanks to Byzantium we have some idea of what happened in Europe...
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Another nail in coffin of the antioxidant religionAre antioxidants a waste of money? Latest study says eating expensive 'superfoods' or taking supplements WON'T help you live longer. That dynamo of...
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More on the decline of Roman civilizationRead here both an essay by Ludwig von Mises and a reply by Sean Gabb. I agree with Gabb.In my recent essay on the subject I attributed the decline of Roman...
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PatriotismWorldwide, the Left are critical of patriotism. They hate the world they live in and that includes their own country. Most Americans, however, are very patriotic. So Democrat politicians...
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Why is Charlie Hebdo Assassination 100% Islam****************************Eric Holder, Other U.S. Leaders, Skip Unity Rally in ParisMore of Mr Obama's pro-Muslim foreign policyToday, a large "Unity...
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An al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula Leader Claims the Paris Attacks on TwitterBy Aymenn Jawad Al-TamimiThe data below- a series of tweets by Bakhsaruf al-Danqulah (an AQAP leader active on...
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Are better looking women conservatives?The authors below are careful not to draw that conclusion but it is a reasonable inference from the findings reported. We read below: "But the women rated as...
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Should we all live on beans?There is a book called “The Blue Zones” which researched areas of the world that have an unusual concentration of centenarians (people reaching the age of 100). Let me put...
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Nazi ideologyI have been including in my postings here occasional comments on history because I believe that you need to know how we got to where we are today before you can understand what is going on...
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THE OBAMA STATES OF AMERICAThe Committee for Symbol Security has released its tentative redesign of the American flag to include the previously unrepresented District of Columbia, which is not part of...
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Does Australia have the ideal healthcare system?You might not think so from the news report below. The report covers just one episode of inaccessible healthcare but it is typical of what happens all...
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Obama has no shame: Releasing Illegal Alien Criminals!Max McGuireAll we ever hear from liberals is that you “can’t deport all the illegal aliens.” Personally, I think that’s wrong. But one thing that...
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Supreme Court Agrees to Define MarriageI should perhaps mention the libertarian perspective here. Conservatives find much libertarian thought congenial and they might find the libertarian perspective...
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The Prince of ThievesDuring his lame-duck term, Barack Obama intends to pursue what he calls "middle-class economics," i.e., proposals to reduce income inequality through taxation. Apparently a...
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Will feminism produce great works of art?DVDs are a wonderful thing. I have a DVD recording a performance at the Mariinsky theater in St Petersburg of the great ballet "Firebird". The company is the...
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