[November 10, 2022] There is little doubt that the West has a serious attraction to “victimhood”; it’s believed to be a virtue and desirable. Richard Gunderman, MD, Ph.D., is an experienced doctor and serious thinker about the health of populations. He takes a strategic look at the West’s victimhood mentality in a recent article titled Pathologies of Victimhood.… Read More »
[November 9, 2022] Mines! We all have fear; small, large, immobilizing, ulcer-inducing, and generally unpleasant at best. One of my fears has been explosive mines. Originally an Infantryman and then a Combat Engineer, mines were always part of my mission, mostly not to step on one. Mines scare me. Here is what I learned from explosive mines. “You… Read More »
[November 8, 2022] It’s finally here; Election Day 2022. In preparation, I was at a friend’s house yesterday – Frank & Terry – to pick up credentials that allow my wife and I into any polling place in our town as “poll challengers.” We believe that making a difference in our community, state, and nation means going out… Read More »
[November 7, 2022] It was no surprise that I was out of town for a few days; offline, but I had expected to keep up with my daily blogging. As the weekend developed, it turns out that the event I attended was a “huge” Italian wedding in New York City; big things happen there. My wife and I… Read More »
[November 4, 2022] Interestingly, human children have the most prolonged dependency period of any animal creature. This makes the social bond between mother and child of primary importance. And from that, we find the importance of family. Around that mother-child bond is the need for a structure for it even to be possible for children to survive the… Read More »
[November 3, 2022] There’s the claim that the West is an oppressive patriarchy. And that is partly true. The problem with the claim is that it’s not just an oppressive patriarchy, and there’s a big difference between something being “completely” something and something being “partly” something. One of the things we might point out is that you can… Read More »
[November 2, 2022] Andrew Kull, a distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, is a distinguished author. In 1998 he published one of my favorite “intellectual” books of the 90s, The Color-Blind Constitution, which can be appropriately labeled a terrific book. In his book, he lays out the history of how Americans… Read More »
[November 1, 2022] Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard historic arguments on several legal challenges to anti-Asian race discrimination by Harvard and the University of North Carolina. What is most interesting was many “good people” took the position and are standing with those universities in support of policies that support race discrimination. That may be a bit of… Read More »
[October 31, 2022] Yes, that’s right, Twitter takes a birdbath, meaning a cleansing is underway within that bloated, woke, anti-free speech company. Elon Musk has officially taken over control of Twitter, ending months of legal disputes. He is bringing significant changes, which began with the immediate firing of Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal, Vijaya Gadde, and Ned Segal (Twitter’s… Read More »
[October 30, 2022] If you plan to talk about something, you must know a lot about your topic. And, no, this is not common sense. You need to know at least three or four times as much as you’re going to speak about it. This means doing the proper background research (and sometimes analysis). You must know what… Read More »