The constitution of hope and a future.
A tweet caught my eye today, and stirred up a need to write about the American situation and where we ought to be heading. The tweet promoted a Human Events opinion piece by Jane Coleman, which is well worth the time and easy to commend to your perusal.
It’s about CRT as it is manifested in America’s schools, Continue reading “The American Spring will be forward, not back”
Never forget.
People have asked in recent months why I haven’t been writing much about foreign affairs, geopolitics, military and strategic analysis, and so forth.
There’s certainly enough going on in the world to keep a foreign and security policy geek busy. I appreciate the interest from those who’ve asked.
But the short answer – the best answer – is the one I will take the opportunity of our Memorial Day observance to give.
It’s simply this. With all that’s erupting outside America’s borders, Continue reading “Priorities, USA – on Memorial Day”
A “secular Inquisition” takes up arms.
A campaign against religious freedom – the central purpose for which America came into being – had been underway for some time before the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the same-sex marriage case, on 26 June. But the campaign went into overdrive with the news of that ruling, and it’s becoming increasingly furious and determined.
The principal method of the anti-freedom campaign is owning the terms in which it is discussed. The anti-freedom contingent insists, in essence, that what traditionalist Christians want is not legitimate freedom, but a license to hurt people.
Fascist collectivism always makes its arguments in these terms, and the campaign against religious freedom is no different. It picks a specific demographic target and vilifies the members of it, based on a garbled and inverted premise about social harm. Continue reading “Campaign against religious freedom: Orwellian? Demonic? Both?”
Dumb and dumber.
The ticket price for joining the mainstream debates on many topics these days seems to be ritual ad hominem attacks. Besides being unhelpful, this is evidence of profound societal illness.
The phenomenon isn’t confined to the left. We see it more and more frequently from the right-that-ought-to-know-better – or, perhaps, the right-that-ought-to-have-more-backbone. I wrote about one major instance of it last year during the crisis at the Bundy ranch, when conservative pundits whom we have counted on to bring logic and intellectual courage to public issues suffered “CLIF”: complete loss of intellectual function. They went from being able to talk about things like government limits and property rights to being unable to do anything except rail against Cliven Bundy. Continue reading “Dumbing debate down on the Mohammed cartoon contest and Jade Helm 15”
First they came for the chaplains.
New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
The Optimistic Conservative 