12/27/17 Transparency in the New Year

We have heard the word transparency a lot for the last near decade. We mostly hear it from government upper-echelon apparatchiks. They spend a lot of air time trying to assure us of their transparency and desire for more. Their transparency, they tell us, is a sign of their dedication to the good of the…

10/22/17 Weary and Wary

It is 3:30AM, Sunday, October 22, 2017. Here I sit at this computer struggling for words. Well, actually, struggling for words is not correct. I’ve got words. It is the struggle to arrange them into something useful or entertaining that is the problem. I’m not seeing much to write about that is entertaining. I’m just…

10/6/15 Disinformed

I believe I’ve been disinformed. Having come to this realization, I am now trying to pinpoint the source of my disinformation. After initial review, it seems that locating an ultimate source is going to be rather difficult, if not impossible, there being so many sources of disinformation that they wind up supporting each other, increasing…

5/17/15 Jesus and the Government

“My kingdom is not of this world.” Jesus We Christians often wonder what Jesus would do. We ask ourselves that, not in response to some bracelet that clever marketers dreamed up with the “WWJD” inscription on it. We ask ourselves this because it is a prudent thing to do. We also notice that liberals, leftists,…

12/5/13 And The Experts All Agree . . .

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton Once you start with Chesterton, there is no good stopping point. The above quote will likely infuriate my many excellently educated friends. Chesterton said what he said. I will likely add to it. We will go from there…