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 Controversy Over Israel’s ban of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omer
The Democratic Party is near schizophrenic, having voted with the Republicans against the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction) movement, but then having a fit over the Israel ban of two radical congresswomen. What should be simple was made complex since …
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 …
How Prejudice and Partisanship Distorts Moral Evaluations
We are living through the most astonishing period of time where partisan prejudice has destroyed the ability to make moral judgments on the basis of objective norms of behavior. Both sides give their violators soft treatment or a pass. Until …
SELF DEFINITION AND JUSTICE
We are witnessing a perfect storm of moral and social destruction in the West. Combinations of philosophies that have gained control over the culture forming institutions in society (media, entertainment, and education) now combine post modern relativistic philosophy and neo …
THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE AND BIBLICAL JUSTICE
My new book, Social Justice from a Biblical basis, is now out. I hope many of you buy it. In it, I seek to deal with a multiplicity of ideas that drive the culture in the United States and Western …