Demonizing those who Disagree

I mentioned in my most recent post that General James Mattis wrote an article on the dangers of tribalism and a type of tribal warfare in America.  Then more recently Carol Roth, a centrist and independent politically, wrote a very …

Speak Loudly, but Carry a Little Stick

We are soon entering into elections in Israel in just over two weeks.    The right of center party of Benjamin Netanyahu is facing off against Blue and White, the centrist party of General Benny Gantz and Yesh Atid leader …

Religion, Patriotism and Family

Many responded with great alarm to a recent survey commissioned by the Wall Street Journal and NBC news.  Among people aged 55 and older, nearly 80 percent said that patriotism was very important compared with 42 percent of those aged …

The Great Distopia, Our Cultural Decline

In only a few days terrible news about our cultural drift cames into my purview.  I read an article by Daniel Henniger, a great article in the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal on August 8, entitled The Deep …

The Homeless

The homeless issue in the United States is horrendous. The liberal run cities are allowing the homeless to take over areas of the city creating squalor without historic precedent in the United States. There are rats, now even bubonic infection, …

The Black Underclass

The Democratic Presidential Debates open up the issue of the Black underclass especially in the light of President Trump’s critique of the city of Baltimore and Elijah Commings, whose district includes the poverty areas of the city. Trump states that …

Gun Violence Again

Three types of gun violence dominate the landscape in America.  One is gun violence in the inner city connected to drugs and gangs.  This requires a holistic effort for the inner city which I spoke of in another post on …

Reforming American Education

Radical deconstructionist neo-Marxist thinking along with relativism has destroyed much of American education.  The idea of a body of great literary works is dismissed as simply the writings of white male oppressors. The idea of historical progress from the magna …