You know me and my thing with Lucifer. Still, I’m not one of those who believe that Satan personifies himself in any man. We are too quick to say that so-and-so is “pure evil” when in fact, that is not likely the…
Maybe We Need Hoofs on the Ground Instead of Boots
I’m sure someone has mentioned this already, but I was thumbing through a stack of books and came across a 2009 book by Doug Stanton about the soldiers who first went into Afghanistan in advance of the air campaign to…
Who Can You Trust? Give Fear a Chance
If you think governments have always lied, well, you’d be wrong. But why this is so is because for the most of history they’ve never had to. Or fear any repercussions. Like so many other things we believe are universal,…
Paralyzing Patriots, the Media’s Job One
(Cartoon cover, Milt Priggee, Miltprigee.com) Thoughts on the existential threat I had an interesting conversation yesterday about a question I posed in my last article, about ISIS and the existential threat it poses to America. You don’t have to read it,…
ISIS, America’s Existential Threat, Will this Government Agree?
An “existential threat” is a thing that threatens one’s existence. On the Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, as soon as John Daley reported the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all America realized not just that we were at war, but…