I started this little investigation into gutter trashery with Joe Biden for Joe is pre-Baby Boomer, so comes from a generation who should have known the value of keeping little private weaknesses out of the public eye. So, just in terms of the…
Category: American Exceptionalism
The Satan Chronicles, an Invitation
Over at Unwashed Philosophy (a creation of “Haystack”, one of the early behind-the-curtain tech-guys at RedState and now living a contemplative monk’s existence in an aerie in New England) I was invited to do a series of short essays about how Satan…
Teaching History to C-Students, not just A-Students; a Note to Conservatives
Yesterday I saw a tweet by Mark Levin, plugging an August 19, 2019 article at The Federalist by Josh Lawson, “8 Back-to-School Books to Protect Students from Leftist Brainwashing”. Other than throwing in an updated version of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and perhaps…
American Theology and “The Patriots History of the United States”
There is an American theology and has always has been. And some very fine historians have chronicled it. Samuel Eliot Morison covered the years of my education in the 1960s. American History and Government were required courses by state boards…
Crime Syndicate; How China and Russias Bought off the Washington Establishment
My background for this observation is 30+ years with China, the Far East, including the last days of the Soviet Union in both Russia and Ukraine in 1991-1992 and finally the mostly Balkans through 2009. This is a book I’ll never get to write; too…