In my freshman year in high school, 1960, I participated in the Kentucky high school regionals of what was called The State Speech Festival. Organized like Spelling Bee competitions, the best of the best at the regionals would be selected…
Category: Religion
Does Anyone Actually Teach Conservatism Anymore?
The miracle of the Founding Fathers was not the Constitution so much that they created a document of self governance for people not of their class, and gave it away freely, no strings attached. It was a gift!—but only, as…
An Ash Wednesday Tale, Benny and his Jeepney
Another Famous Common Person I Have Known, Benny In Spring, 1974 I spent a few days at Clark AFB in the Philippines. Part of the rate for my hotel room in Angeles City included a Jeepney and a driver. His…
In Defense of Jerry Falwell, Jr’s “Theological” Apostasy
Salon.com said Jerry Falwell, Jr, president of Liberty University and son of Jerry Falwell, Sr, “had a very bad week”. Other left-wing rags echoed in. You see, Falwell and other evangelical leaders have refused to condemn Donald Trump based on…
How the Next Civil War May Take Shape; A Reprise of the 60s?
In the 1960s, 1) with an anti-war movement scripted, and even controlled more than we knew, straight from Moscow, 2) a civil rights movement that would be ensnared and redirected as soon as Dr Martin Luther King and his closest…