Today, I am turning my blog over to Erin Geary, a fellow Substack columnist, who has penned a wonderful reflection on the tradition of making (usually futile) New Year’s resolutions. Enjoy! Now Is Not The Time To Play Possum: Making New Year’s Eve Resolutions for 2024 By Erin Geary We …
A “lexophile” is a lover of words–one who derives pleasure from the various uses of words, who appreciates the nuances surrounding different words, and who is alert to synonyms, antonyms, homophones, anagrams, palindromes, and homonyms, often using them for effect, sometimes in humor. The New York Times even holds an …
Once upon a time, newspapers and magazines were physical products you flipped through as you read them—not microelectronic cybernetic versions of themselves that you squinted at on a cell phone or other hand-held wireless device. You could pick up, fold, and stick newspapers and magazines into a briefcase or backpack. …
NOTE: I wrote the following post in 2015 as America was heavily involved in its war with the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Obama administration was hell-bent on its social engineering campaign of the U.S. military—namely, the inexplicable determination by military brass to insert women into combat. As you will …
Today, I am turning over my blog to former California State legislator Steve Baldwin. Steve is an astute political observer and author who served as Executive Director of the Council for National Policy in Washington D.C. FYI, this Steve Baldwin is NOT the younger brother of ultra-liberal actor Alec Baldwin. …
We hear a lot today about fake news in America. But what about “fake journalists?” Watch television, cable, or surf the Internet, and we see a profusion of talking heads, political pundits, academics, bloggers, and news aggregators out there masquerading as journalists. Unfortunately, too many people can’t distinguish between skilled professional …
In high school, I joined something called Model United Nations, which was a simulation of UN organizations, including the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, UNICEF, UNHCR, etc. As with many of my altruistic teenage peers, we thought the United Nations was a worthy organization, and the Model UN …
In the 1920s, as Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party, otherwise known as Nazis, was gaining political and social power, its brown-shirted paramilitary wing called the Sturmabteilung (SA) was busy marching and demonstrating in cities and university campuses. Their main target? Germany’s Jews. I never thought I would see …
The Bible tells us in the Book of Revelation that Armageddon is the place where the forces of evil will converge upon the people of God, with the intent of bringing about their destruction. It is the place of a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and …
I believe in the notion that we can learn a lot from history, and if we don’t learn from it, we are condemned to repeat it. So, as Americans are preoccupied with Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists in the Middle East and Israel’s newly declared war on them, I find myself …