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Glenn Fairman
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December 19, 2021
Irony and AscensionAs many have discovered in their sojourns, life viewed solely through the lens of death and its attending fear can shatter us.
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January 1, 2017
Can You Hear It?Having slain the personal for the sake of the political, the left has wrung the charm from life by reviling the precious and common virtues that once moved good men to good deeds.
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December 25, 2016
That Wonderful TreeThe Christmas tree is no less than a central cultural icon fused into our treasury of Western lore.
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December 20, 2016
What Is Truth?Having been embarrassed by the nests of cockroaches that Jill Stein’s recount uncovered, Dem operatives have scurried into more promising trashcans.
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December 18, 2016
Job in the DockIn the final accounting, it is Job and mankind, and not God, that must occupy the dock.
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December 10, 2016
Last Year’s ManWith the passing of Leonard Cohen, the world of words and images grows a bit dimmer.
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December 4, 2016
Nakedness and necessityA humanity divorced from its ultimate fountain of satisfaction is restless beyond all comprehension.
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November 29, 2016
Flunking higher educationAmerica has surpassed its solubility limit for the number of parasites it can absorb and coddle.
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November 27, 2016
A Belated Thanksgiving MeditationHow does one lift his hands into the sky, like Job, and offer praise for the calamities that seemingly beset us on every side?
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November 16, 2016
A Strong DelusionThe supposed irresistible Will to Globalism has found itself upended by the rough and unshaven masses.
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November 16, 2016
Doubling down on a nightmareThe needy were merely pawns providing cover for a system that was doomed to fail.
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November 6, 2016
Heroism in a Postmodern WorldWhat is heroism in a world of Planned Parenthood and Black Lives Matter?
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September 3, 2016
The Child on the CrossThe vast majority of sins that degrade a human being into a hard-hearted pleasure-soaked pig are visited on the guilty themselves.
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August 28, 2016
The Theory of NothingEven if one is a skeptic or unbeliever, one is still the beneficiary of the common grace that has uplifted and informed the very society that seeks to disown its venerable heritage.
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August 27, 2016
Science: A graven imageLittle has changed from when Galileo was forced to mutter under his breath, "Yet it moves."
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August 21, 2016
Exits and AdventsIt is at the crossroads of death that not only our theoretical, but our existential religious convictions are put to the test.
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July 10, 2016
The Path of Good Intent"You will become what you hate": Hillary learned well from the secretive and paranoid example of Richard Nixon.
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June 29, 2016
Myths and EuropeansThe dream of a United Europe has forever been a historical pipedream.
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June 26, 2016
The Jihadi’s DilemmaIn the Muslim world, the unwashed and disaffected who are ever told that they are the most blessed of the earth, find that everywhere they look they are among its most wretched.
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June 24, 2016
Put On the Full Armor of ManOne does not need to wear the prophet’s mantle in these latter days in order to decipher the writing on the wall concerning radical Islam.
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June 9, 2016
Sauce for the GenderThe transgender sham, rather than remediating nature’s “perceived” cruelty, has revictimized a group that few would have ever expected: women of the two x chromosome vintage.
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June 8, 2016
A New TransvaluationThere is no reason that a mere fragment of the general population that are identified as some subspecies of homosexuality should be the veritable tail that wags the dog.
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October 13, 2014
Despairing of Political PerfectionThe Party of Lincoln is, in truth, what we as a movement wish to make it.
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September 30, 2014
Negotiating the Lion's DenEven in a minefield as perilous as the modern public schoolhouse, where speaking candidly on social issues is akin to walking amidst eggshells filled with nitro, the virtues of honesty and integrity are still held in tenuous esteem.
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September 27, 2014
To Revive a PhoenixIn case you haven’t realized it by now, our families and schools are the battlegrounds where the future of the United States will be decided.
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September 21, 2014
Authority, Justice, and LawAll good men crave justice, and there can be no justice without the canopy of enlightened law to cover us: laws whose sole ends are justice and that possibility of contributing to the Good Life.
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September 17, 2014
Foreign Policy and Roosting ChickensObama’s chickens have come home to roost -- except that these birds are better described as black carrion auspiciously returning to pick clean a morbid foreign policy’s carcass.
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September 13, 2014
An Old Soldier's Last FarewellVeteran’s cemeteries are more than a last farewell for old soldiers, but a continuous living monument to the idea of America.
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September 7, 2014
The 'Baby Daddy' GodIs the notion of a distant and taciturn force, hovering beyond care or concern, ultimately explanatory or satisfying as we reach out to the heavens and get only a busy signal in exchange for our anguish?
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September 1, 2014
Slouching Towards the End of HistoryThe fashioning of the City of Man is always subject to that same fatal flaw: that men cannot read the tea leaves of their own natures and are infatuated with their own intoxicating brilliance.
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August 31, 2014
Art and HabitThe lesson that The Nun’s Story is this: it compels us to address the human dilemma of knowing ourselves, and how we must all balance on the razor’s edge of self-affirmation and duty.
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August 27, 2014
Conservatism's Family SnapshotIf we are to counter the Left's poisons, we must first win the battle of hearts and minds by showing that ours is the better road to achieving temporal happiness.
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August 18, 2014
Riding the TigerCaution should be taken when politicians endeavor to transform America by legislating to the lowest common denominator.
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August 10, 2014
Muslims and MorlocksLooking back in retrospect, the faithful should be comforted with the mournful bittersweet realization that the murder of three young men might well have short-circuited Armageddon.
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August 6, 2014
U.S. Diplomacy and the Spartan KickWhen a sworn adversary has the obliteration of your country enshrined into its very charter, how does one prudently meet him halfway?
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August 3, 2014
Sheep and Goats: Impure Thoughts on the Gaza WarBeing a fundamentally reasonable people, Israelis have so far shown themselves unwilling to bite the bullet and conduct war in the style of their adversary.
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July 26, 2014
Israel's Perplexity: Scipio or Samson?How far do we bend before we break; and when we defend our hearth and home, how long can we proceed down that avenue of justice and retribution before we are deemed monsters?
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July 19, 2014
Knock-Knock and the BumblebeeThe Arab spirit, though ephemerally possessing a culture brocaded with the relics of an ancient learned heritage, is weighed down by the anchor of a relentless fatalism.
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July 16, 2014
On Rainwater and Sewage'Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.'
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June 22, 2014
Eternity Versus the Lie -- Thoughts on the Ninth CommandmentFor the Christian, the scriptures make plain the biblical imperative: only what is true – only what is holy is worthy to stand before the Great King.
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June 21, 2014
Some Heretical Thoughts on Politics and EconomicsCapitalism is still the best system that the temporal world has to offer man as he is thus constituted.
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June 15, 2014
The Two CitiesEvery attempt to establish the City of Man: from Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar to Rousseau and Marx, has been doomed to the ash heap of history.
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June 14, 2014
The Treasure He is MiningWhenever I see the Cross superimposed on the flag, I shudder.
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June 13, 2014
The Withered Arc of the Socialist DreamA world cannot be built on wish-fulfillment daydreams.
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June 10, 2014
Gloria Steinem's Final SolutionGloria Steinem, in freeing herself from a civilization's bourgeois restraints, long ago tossed away her last shred of moral innocence.
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June 8, 2014
'The City of Covetousness'Happy the man who can find satisfaction in his allotted earthly portion and does not require that hard-won wisdom earned through tears and travail.
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June 3, 2014
White Privilege and Black ConservatismHaving watched as every Progressive creed and thought experiment has crashed into flames when tested in the rarified oxygen of reality, the chimera of race is all their True Believers have left to fall back on..
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May 25, 2014
Graduation DayThe entire system of American education needs to be bulldozed under before it destroys this country irrevocably.
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May 21, 2014
The Age of Academic RuinIndoctrination no longer requires the blunt cunning of force or fraud: the 10,000 little subliminal lessons attained from the schoolhouse are enough to ensure that the young human mind is bound for its lifetime to the hive.
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May 10, 2014
Straight on Till MorningBeing on hand to witness your children thriving and marrying well is just one of the rewards of middle age.
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May 3, 2014
The Will to AnnihilationMan in rebellion runs an indiscriminate scalpel across the throat of life, and calls it Utopia.
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April 22, 2014
Social Conservatism and the Public SquareIgnoring the aged planks of social conservatism for an electoral win is suicide on the installment plan.
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April 9, 2014
Memo to History...In the grand scheme of things, the United States doesn’t need a Progressive Philosopher-King to define politics from the whimsical perspective of the blue-nosed academician.
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April 6, 2014
Looking Fore & AftModernity’s dogmatic repudiation of a fixed underlying human nature ultimately succeeded in rendering history largely irrelevant.
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April 5, 2014
Remembering SimbaThe perfect dog can serve as an anchor for a family and be a catalyst for so many happy moments.
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April 3, 2014
The Wages of Political CorrectnessAll tyranny is weaned in the conspiracy of silence.
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March 29, 2014
The Existential ManThe Collectivist entity, having interpreted Man as a being bereft of an immutable core, overtly seeks to cultivate a diminished population unworthy of the name ‘citizen.’
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March 9, 2014
Wagons Ho! In Search of Seth, Flint, and AmericaThat old dinosaur once called network television has long been on its slippery slope to perdition.
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March 9, 2014
A Bridge to TranscendenceSuch a bridge may lie in the power of music, art, or literature.
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February 23, 2014
America's 'Tools' of EngagementWhen we bring our rules and values down from their lofty seats of abstraction, we find sometimes that they can lead to our undoing.
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February 16, 2014
A Nation of BastardsThrough policies that lead to the effectual trumping of marriage, the progressive regime has set its house aflame by short-circuiting civilization's most sacred bond.
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February 14, 2014
Cupid's Erotic MeditationIn the midst of our annual mad scramble for card, rose, or candy, even the best of us may be tempted to question the entire enterprise of love's odyssey.
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February 11, 2014
Ted Bundy and the Logical Consequences of a Dead UniverseIf we are ultimately lone agents of desire ensconced with a thin illegitimate drapery of moral fiction, why proceed with the hypocritical myth of civility?
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February 11, 2014
A Progress into DeclineOur machines have silently become our masters: rendering us helpless and full of blinking emptiness.
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February 2, 2014
The Nazarene and the ProphetWhen one scratches beneath the surface, the stark differences between Christ and Mohammed, Christianity and Islam, become manifest.
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January 29, 2014
Libertarianism and the Public GoodLibertarianism's relative social neutrality leads us ultimately in the direction of atomism and anarchy.
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January 19, 2014
The Dream Castle of OzIt is easy for a writer as glib and as rhetorically gifted as Amos Oz to assert a thing to be true, but quite another to prove it.
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January 16, 2014
The Primal Bitch of Income InequalityLike a Tropical Vortex spinning America into a veritable Golgotha of debt and malaise, "The One" has at last come down to us from Mauna Kea with fiery putter in hand.
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January 9, 2014
The Cart Before the HorseIt should be near axiomatic that encumbering and overtaxing the productive nodes of society will necessarily attenuate the efficiency of production.
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January 6, 2014
Clever Beasts Who Have Lost Their ClawsAlone in the twilight, beyond mercy, morality, or salvation.
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January 1, 2014
Conservatism and the Moral Calculus of AbortionThe command against murdering the innocent is not a negotiable item.
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December 25, 2013
Finding My Way to the IncarnationWhich of us truly comprehends the gravity of God's Incarnation on Earth?
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December 14, 2013
Will the Mockingjay Catch Fire?It is possible to know something, and yet not know it: to consent to a thing subliminally while averting our inward eye so as not to perceive its true gravity.
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November 28, 2013
Gratitude and GraceThe thankful heart shifts the gravity of its thoughts from me to thee.
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November 11, 2013
A Veteran's Day MeditationFor nearly every tear-stained reunion filled with beaming smiles, there is a darkened house with pulled shades where men and women wrestle with a loss that no Gold Star will ever redeem.
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November 5, 2013
A Post-Obama WorldDoes America still retain the moral vision and fortitude to return again to the First Principles of its founding?
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October 26, 2013
Of Frogs and KingsBritain's 'sticky wicket' is personified in Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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October 16, 2013
The Audacity of a Failed DivaVerily, it takes a rare type of being to embrace and command the politician's life.
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October 10, 2013
Sacraments of Cavernous DespairThe progressive worldview comprises a mockery of God's formulaiton.
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October 5, 2013
In Defense of Breaking BadDespite what some critics have claimed, Breaking Bad follows the ancient American tradition of the morality play.
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October 2, 2013
Dark TimesIf pain is all these villains will understand, then pain they shall surely have.
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September 29, 2013
'Waxing Wicked'Walter White's descent into evil indicates an absence of prudence. By launching a criminal enterprise, he raised the stakes of his family's well-being to a level where he would stop at nothing to achieve his end.
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September 28, 2013
The Art of SubversionScrewtape discourses on America -- with all apologies to C.S. Lewis.
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September 11, 2013
Reclaiming 9/11If America were to draw any lesson from the abomination that was 9/11, it should have been that our interests were antithetical to Islamic Fundamentalism.
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May 12, 2013
The Schizophrenic's RecitationHow does one go about reconciling the true belligerent face of Islam with the mask handed out for public consumption in the West?
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May 9, 2013
Homage to a Down Low BrotherWhat was not so long ago believed almost universally to be a perversion or neurosis is now heralded as a Profile in Courage.
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May 6, 2013
America's Bad SeedAmerica's Favorite Son has turned out to be quite the disappointment. Now is there any way to get the car keys and credit cards back?
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May 4, 2013
Conspiracies and DelusionConspiracy theories can explain just about everything -- and that's the problem.
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April 30, 2013
The Blessing of an Aborted ChildWith his remarks to Planned Parenthood, Obama has gone beyond a very definite and easily discernible line. It is doubtful that he can find his way back.
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April 27, 2013
Bracing For the Real MarathonIf one is to contemplate running a marathon, it is important to know what obstacles must be overcome to prevail.
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April 25, 2013
The Composite PresidencyMore grotesque than the hippogriff, deadlier than the Minotaur.
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April 17, 2013
The Engineer and the HarlotIn hoarding powers and prerogatives to himself that no president has ever wielded, Obama is taking us to a place of his own choosing: a utopia that more closely resembles Golgotha.
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April 16, 2013
The Uncanny Union of Kermit and Miss MaggieKermit Gosnell is the end game in a natural progression that the eugenic philosophies of Margaret Sanger set into motion.
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April 14, 2013
'Last Men' and AtheistsArguing with atheists ia largely a waste of time -- though it does help clarify the thinking.
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April 8, 2013
Wrestling With a Young Man's DutyIt's easy to talk of the sweet blood of martyrs when you lack skin in the game.
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April 7, 2013
Constructing BabelIf America is not now a Post-Christian society, then it is hurtling towards becoming so at the speed of Lucifer falling.
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March 31, 2013
The Leveling Spirit of EqualityAs Artistotle and Tocqueville agreed across millennia, equality is the Achilles heel of democracy, subverting rights, destroying values, and in the end leading only to tyranny.
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March 30, 2013
The Patriot's DilemmaWhile not the last refuge of scoundrels, patriotism is a tool much like any other, one that can be used for either good or evil.
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March 25, 2013
The Pool of NarcissusWhile society renders lip service to altruism and the affectation of selflessness, the prevailing culture in America today marinates in the worship of Self.
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March 23, 2013
The Politics of UtopiaNothing in the world reveals more clearly how the golden road to the utopian future commonly detours to Hell than modern science fiction.
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March 20, 2013
Deconstructing AmericaAmerica as de facto "Jailer of the Emergent Progressive Soul?" The "bloody boot" impressed upon the neck of the poor? Thanks to postmodern deconstruction of truth, all too many believe exaclty that.
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March 17, 2013
C.S. Lewis: A Faith ObservedAn introduction to a trustworthy guide across the Shadowlands.
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March 16, 2013
Human Excellence and Dependency: Who Built What?"You didn't build that" carries with it all the statist arrogance and ideological narcissism that has ruined the Social Democracies of Europe.
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March 11, 2013
Nurse Ratched and the Therapeutic StateUnder color of an exaggerated maternal concern for our temporal wellbeing, the Therapeutic State arises in America with reptilian eyes as she licks her lips and sizes us up.
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March 9, 2013
Fear and Trembling on the Scimitar's EdgeTo the Iranians, the earth must inexorably submit or face destruction and Muslim hellfire. How has the U.S. chosen to respond? With talk.
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March 6, 2013
Hangmen and AbortionistsThe "contradiction" between defending the innocent and punishing the guilty is not so evident as liberals would like to make it seem.
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March 3, 2013
The Case for Morality and GodCan one be good without God, or does the meaning of goodness in a Postmodern Age ultimately dissolve existentially as a child's tears in a freezing rain?
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March 1, 2013
Beautiful SociopathUpon first gazing upon her, Jodi Arias appears to be a lovely young woman. One would be hardpressed to believe that she is on trial for murdering her ex-lover as brutally as any Taliban warrior ever could.
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February 26, 2013
Prudence or Purity? A Political DilemmaAmericans more attuned to the call of revelation than the "smoke filled room" are often hard pressed to accept the raw human reality of politics, and perhaps rightly so; but it is a cold chiseled reality nonetheless.
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February 24, 2013
Is Race Equivalent to Thought?Our civilization was ripe for racialist contagion once we abandoned our Judeo-Christian ethos and the concept of natural rights for doctrines that applauded the technocratic herding of humanity like so much cattle.
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February 18, 2013
A Man for all ExtremesDorden was mad in the way that was said of Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now : "His mind is sane, but his soul is mad;" a madness manifested in the way he utilized means towards his final goal.
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February 17, 2013
A Blind PendulumThe news media have made an overt decision to avert your eyes away from the stone cold reality that young blacks are increasingly committing crimes against life and property by the medium of flash mob violence.
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February 14, 2013
Liberalism's Blighted FruitWe are reaping the results of a worldview that informs American children that they have no objective purpose and are merely clever beasts who have lost their claws.
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February 6, 2013
Burkas and BabiesSex appears so persistent in the Islamic consciousness that it has been subject to a byzantine set of laws that seek to enflame rather than tame carnal lust.
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February 3, 2013
Saving Us from Our Degenerate SelvesNo republic can withstand the onslaught of moral and civil decay in its discreet parts.
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January 30, 2013
The Lupine Socialist DreamAs republics inexorably begin their death swoons into full democracies, that great magnetic pull towards equality in all of its forms becomes culturally irresistible.
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January 29, 2013
The Political Gospel of PainFocus and tenacity are levers to move the world. In contradistinction, hysteria and emotionality are the provenance of the Progressive caste.
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January 27, 2013
The Moral Force of FatherhoodAlthough conceived in compassion, programs such as AFDC had the perverse consequence of driving the male from the home and causing the role of provider to fall upon Uncle Sam.
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January 22, 2013
Red Lines and Boiling FrogsIn these latter days of the republic, a conservative is surely the equivalent of a bristling prophet sounding in the wilderness, calling the people to awaken and repent.
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January 20, 2013
Of Babes and Bio-EthicsTheologians and philosophers have derived an enlightened morality positing the primacy of human worth. It is through this that the West's view of man's place in the cosmos has transcended that of other civilizations.
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January 14, 2013
Orphans of PerfectionThe Progressive Heart masquerades as infinite compassion and its venal appetite can never be sated so long as a neighbor has a stitch more.
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January 13, 2013
The 'Closed Circle' of the ArabA sickness that is never cured and a lesson that is forever unlearned.
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January 13, 2013
Jean Valjean and the Forgiving HeartIn this tale of two men, one finds in microcosm the dilemma we face in a world of pain and transgression. In a sense more real than we at times can fathom, we are both Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert.
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January 2, 2013
Hunting the Unicorn of Moderate IslamOur president has actively participated in spoon feeding the propaganda necessary to cultivate the ignorant into the devil's legions.
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December 31, 2012
The Devil You Don't KnowThe Left's moral and cultural relativism, coupled with its ideological investment in "Contra-Americana," has irrevocably demolished its powers of judgment.
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December 29, 2012
The Leeward Side of ChristmasLearn well that the anticipation that attends the Fair Side of Christmas is balanced by its sorrow on the leeward.
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December 29, 2012
Sam Colt and the Law of Self-PreservationOf all laws that are deemed to have their origin in nature, the Law of Self-Preservation is indeed the most fundamental. The use of a firearm has irrevocably changed the dynamic relationship between both predator and victim.
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December 25, 2012
My Stingray ChristmasHeroes do not come in capes and cowls. Often they wear broken shoes and threadbare pants as they arise before dawn to return home at dusk; and they are as mundane to those who are ill-equipped to really see their heroics as birds upon a wire.
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December 22, 2012
Transcending this SufferingWe hear this same plaintive cry following every monstrous evil. Where was God in the massacre? In truth, He has been where he has always been: at the Doors of Men's hearts knocking to gain entrance.
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December 18, 2012
Hobbits,Orcs, and the Human ConditionThe universes of Tolkien and Lewis touch a spot in our hearts, not because of a one-dimensional black and white depiction of Good and Evil, but because they ring true in excavating the subtlety of what drives evil.
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December 16, 2012
The Prodigal and The PoliticalPublic welfare, which addresses the material and discounts the spiritual, will never address the ethical factors.
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December 9, 2012
Education's Great Divide: My Time in the TrenchesWhat I learned about the decadence of the American education system, and where we're headed.
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December 8, 2012
The Prerequisite for ServitudeParadoxically, it is freedom. The truth of it is right before our eyes.
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December 1, 2012
Acting IntelligentPoets, cinematographers, screenwriters, and actors have within their fingertips the ability to sway the moral imagination into opaque corners of the human conscience.
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November 30, 2012
Israel and the Carthaginian PeaceTo the Arab collective consciousness, the idea of a lasting peace with the Jew is anathema, and any negotiations have been couched within that cunning consciousness as a form of diplomatic warfare.
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November 26, 2012
The Parchment-Thin Veil of CivilityIn an age where government does everything it should not and fails in doing what it ought, we must keep in mind that the glib courtesies of civil society are only a mask for a measured depravity entrenched deep within us all
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November 25, 2012
The Cairo ExpressHaving achieved the role as arbitrator in the Gaza-Israeli ceasefire, the world will soon see if the Brotherhood has the ability to act in a spirit of neutral engagement.
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November 24, 2012
Black Hearted FridayBlack-Hearted Friday is coming earlier every year, and by next year it will probably commence about the time that Dallas kicks off.
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November 22, 2012
Socialism as ReligionSocialism interprets the cultivation of our search and longing after God as, at best, a narcotic towards despair, and at worse, a retrograde abstention from the obligations of our humanist morality.
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November 19, 2012
Two Vital LessonsAmerica is on the verge of learning several vital lessons in the realms of economic and moral economy: lessons saturated in pain and hardship and as anchored in nature as universal gravitation or the science of hydraulics.
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November 18, 2012
Becoming AntiqueIn the last year or so, I have come to the irrefutable conclusion that I am becoming an antique.
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November 7, 2012
Surviving the Political WarGrowing weary of the filth and calumny, the stink and the repercussions that attend grasping for the golden ring of power, it will be good for a time to focus on the practical and beautiful things that happen so miraculously around us
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November 6, 2012
Obama's Machiavellian PloyIf Obama can inflame the venal passions of envy and moral rot effectively into the sinews of the election, then perhaps -- against all odds and all political judgment and reasoning, he might prevail.
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November 2, 2012
Mormon 'Just So' StoriesThere is exactly zero percent chance that any outdated or perhaps fanciful Mormon theology is going to place manacles back on black people or to attenuate their status as equal and moral beings in any way.
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October 31, 2012
October SurpriseLet us pray that we do not fall victim to the ultimate November Surprise: that on the morning of November 7, a man totally unworthy of our trust or our great legacy still smirks and bullies his way unimpeded through our hallowed mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave,
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October 31, 2012
Despising AmericaFor four grueling gut-wrenching years we have peacefully grit our teeth while you have systematically kindled a conflagration between the productive and parasitic nodes of American society.
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October 30, 2012
The Fall of the House of SoeteroFor the impiety of having navigated our ship's compass bearing with the constellation of the sinister Crescent and Star while having offered our holy fire to false and venal gods, we duly witness with fear and trembling the tragic end of our Sun King.