Growing up in the 50s and 60s, it wasn’t unusual to hear Huntley or Brinkley (or Cronkite or Reasoner) mention on their nightly news program yet another of Russia’s Five (or Seven or Ten) Year Plans. Those projects–which, luckily for the promulgators, would be played out behind an Iron Curtain of darkness and secrecy, nevertheless–were … [Read more…]
Just to complete the end of Part 2: I mentioned how Leftists strip nationality and citizenship from people (in keeping with their conceit of defining or redefining anything or everyone at will). They do this not in accord with an objectively consistent, available-to-all standard but rather, in effect, by way of a whatever they want … [Read more…]
Riffing on a theme discussed in the previous post, let me add a brief word about epistemology. Broadly, epistemology is concerned with the field of knowledge, but we may reduce it for our purposes to theories concerning fact, facts or fact-ness. Our concern here is to note that, however much any given theory of fact … [Read more…]
Let’s hear it for the free and open fountain of “true” information. One might be forgiven for expecting straight answers to straight inquiries from a neutral entity such as the Internet—that is, from the Internet as its enthusiasts imagine it to be. The trouble, of course, is that one does not connect directly to the … [Read more…]
“Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free from his natural setting in family and neighborhood and becomes a sort of replaceable unit in the social machine. His nearest neighbors may not even know his name. He is free to move from place … [Read more…]
While we await the appearance of a news periodical determined to report news, we’ll settle for catharsis via semi-occasional comments on “all the views the misfits print.”[1] 1. It seems to me that an American newspaper ought to regard itself as honor bound, solemnly obliged to provide service to the American public. I know that’s … [Read more…]
And they are furiously slashing at any red (for GOP) in reach. The New York Times ran a slasher piece by Trip Gabriel on January 10th that puts on plain display its Pravda-like qualities. Journalistic ethics—hey, even bland, humane values like honesty, charity, integrity—are buried so far out of view, they’re not likely be seen … [Read more…]
Not too many years ago, my public lectures and sermons were, in many instances, delivered to audiences almost wholly Dutch Reformed in background. My own bevy of blossoming brunette daughters found themselves seated in many a garden where their rich dark tresses were magnets drawing the eyes of yellow-crowned goddesses filling pew after pew. As … [Read more…]
Today we are told—by every would-be authority, entertainer (same as preceding), broadcaster, twitter-tweeter, and wandering ignoramus—that the single element by which a particular sexual act can be judged acceptable or unacceptable is consent. I’d wager not one in a hundred of these proud-mouthed pundits is aware that, for most of human history, until a few … [Read more…]
Professing Christians: What don’t you understand? Twelve years ago, Ann Coulter observed: “When a Democrat is in the White House, Republican senators vote by huge majorities to confirm extreme left-wing lawyers to the Supreme Court—such as former ACLU lawyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. When a Republican is president, Democratic senators turn every Supreme Court nomination…into Armageddon.” … [Read more…]
We are experiencing what might correctly be called an epistemological crisis in America, where differences in knowledge content between various groups and generations are not the only cause for concern. Far worse are what might be called “knowledge styles,” in which the methods and manners by which knowledge is gathered and stored have undergone radical … [Read more…]
Dear Christian Voters of Alabama, Greetings in our Messiah. I apologize for sending this Part 2 of 2 to you so close to the day of your vote, but the truth is, each time I sat down to compose it, I became distraught. I tried to provide helpful perspectives which make clear why it’s a … [Read more…]
A research team from the Hoomey campus of the University of Alabama published a paper yesterday in the Journal of Mnemonic Insights (Winter 2017) suggesting that a factor or factors recently or currently operative in a region stretching all the way from Huntsville to Mobile, has either halted–or in several cases even reversed–some of Alzheimer’s … [Read more…]
The story is not Roy Moore. The story isn’t even corrupt media. The story is how the egalitarian religion has ALREADY led to a populace so stupid, so movable, malleable, fickle and brainless, that it is almost irresistible to conclude that they DESERVE the totalitarianism and national wreckage they are being led into leap by … [Read more…]
Have you considered: How the gliberal obsession with increasing new immigration and raising the percentage of Americans with no roots in America, harmonizes with their core beliefs, comports with their strategy and moves them closer (they think) to their goals? First, they despise the past in general and America’s past in particular. Judging past heroes … [Read more…]
Nothing makes me more supportive of Donald Trump, President, than the unceasing, broken-brained assault on him waged by the know-nothings who are the last to know THAT rather important fact (that they know nothing). This began, as you know, during the campaign as something I first figured to be honest, though inexcusable–for media members whose … [Read more…]
I am sending this 8-year-old post, NOT expecting you or anyone else to carefully read it. Rather, I’m using it as an occasion to move out from my mind something I have, since November 9, 2016, so far found to be an immovable compound-notion: a) The idea that we are a United States is a … [Read more…]
Some have asked for guidance in their thinking and reaction to the killing of Ben Lowdown. Okay, some quick ones. But first let me assure you that these comments are NOT personal and have no one in view. That said, I mourn over our unreaction to this unqualifiedly wonderful news and regard our confusion as … [Read more…]
by Rev. Steve Schlissel Listen, the Times today made it clear that our response to the TSA’s movement against innocent Americans at airports has the potential to do what can only be done in a country such as ours (was): peacefully change policy. Brothers, there has not been a more important issue smooshed in our … [Read more…]
The following paragraph is from a press release honoring Black History Month, by Alan D. Aviles, the President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Both in New York City and the nation, people of African-American descent often face greater health challenges than the general population. African-American adults are twice as likely to … [Read more…]
You can certainly do without him. The easiest way to find that out is to read the following book (click the link to be taken to it). Revolution and Unbelief, by G. van Prinsterer, translated by H. Van Dyke, is the single book to read for anyone wishing to understand our current circumstances. Revealing egalitarianism … [Read more…]
Responses to last week’s entry have made this one necessary. Many of you thought it was Sarah Palin in the cross hairs of my scope. It was not. Now that you mention it, of course, it is perfectly obvious why you drew that conclusion. I apologize. A qualifier was called for. Please understand, though, the … [Read more…]
Imagine this scene, a few short years in the future. We see a nation spent past its resources. The future is already in hock to the third generation, what with expenses from wars around the world, maintenance and expansion of Home-land Security (which chooses to spend billions rather than simply profile), another couple of weather-related … [Read more…]