January 25, 2021
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Boris’ Cow

I have a candidate for the Most Memorable Character column in the Readersโ€™ Digest. I am talking about Boris, a Russian cab driver from my local company.ย He is one of the funniest and most charming drivers I have ever had. Several years ago, he asked...

An Alternate Reality

I often wonder about the mental health of people on the left. Now I am not a psychologist, let alone a psychiatrist. I seem to get in trouble every time I try to use such terminology in my writings. For example, in an article for the St. Louis...

Southern Poverty Law Center and Left-Wing Hate

In early September 2017, 47 conservative leaders in the U.S. signed an open letter accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of pursuing a political agenda of equating conservatives with neo-Nazis. There are good reasons for these accusations. The...

The Sick Man of the West

One of Alfred Hitchcockโ€™s best pictures was his 1953 film I Confess, the dramatic story of a parish priest accused of a murder. The plot was complicated by the fact that the real murderer confesses his heinous crime to a priest in the confessional...

The Blue Guards are Coming

If I had gotten up out of bed when I was a youngster and said to my mom and dad that I thought I was the Queen of Sheba, they would have laughed. But had I persisted with that they would have sought immediate mental and medical help for me. What...

The Problem with Modern Liberalism

Liberalism as a political philosophy is historically a very American ideology. Its foundational framework, espoused by Enlightenment Thinkers such as John Locke, holds that governmentโ€™s role is to protect the natural rights of the people, rights...

As the Left Fiddles, North Korea Goes Nuclear

While the press launches into its next anti-Trump news cycle, Democrats offer โ€œresistanceโ€ to the Trump administration, and left-wing radicals and thugs rage in American streets, North Korea threatens world peace by developing nuclear weapons and...

Left-Wing Authoritarianism: An Old Tyranny in New Clothes

Left-wing anti-Trump hysteria is reaching a fever point. It is seen in small incidents such as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) causing a scene at a fancy New York City restaurant by yelling at a Trump supporter, or progressive groups warning that Trump...