(Timely, and unedited from a 2010 essay at RedState.com. Since then, they’ve changed, I haven’t.) A caution to the non-religious: In what follows I use religious references from the Old Testament. They are intended as metaphors, or teaching tools. Still, this…
Category: Race and Culture
America Needs Its Sing-Along Song Back
“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…
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…
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Hoodies
(First written in 2012 while George Zimmerman awaited trial) Dr Thomas Sowell used Geraldo Rivera, of all people, to restate a practical, need-to-know law of survival that has nothing to do with any legal right to walk the streets as…