“God Bless America” was written by Irving Berlin in 1918, and revived in 1938 with war looming, and made famous by Kate Smith, whose 1938 radio rendition was a national hit. (See if you can spot Ronald Reagan. If you’re…
A Letter for the Lost; Modern Atheists
Blaise Pascal(1623-62), the French mathematician, inventor and philosopher, said, and I paraphrase, There are three kinds of people: Those who are found, those who are not found but seeking to be found, and those who are lost not knowing they…
Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley
Another in a series about common people I wish you could have known. I was born in a small town of just over a thousand people. It was a company town that ran the length of a creek that hugged…
Elitism, Where Libertarians and Now Much of Conservatism, are Joined at the Heart with the Left
And how they are joined is neither political nor philosophical. It is entirely psychological. This is important to understand, because Karl Marx’s original followers were all academicians. It would be at least two generations before they would begin spawning little bratlings (David…
How the Tea Party Replaced National Review as the Intellectual Standard Bearer for Conservatism
In March 2011 I suggested that the Tea Party had become the intellectual antidote to the Left, which was never really that difficult. But it was not so much to tweak the Left that I wrote that as to serve notice to “some conservatives”, as I postscript’d in the title,…