It is important that we always remember this very critical fact: Laws are punitive not preventive! Laws punish behavior. Laws do NOT prevent behavior. If laws could actually prevent crimes from occurring, our prisons would be empty and no one would ever be murdered, assaulted, raped or robbed. After all - its against the law!... Continue Reading →
Fake News – Propaganda in Our Day: Part 3 – Glittering Generalities
Democracy! Freedom! Justice! Patriotic! Scientific! Love! What do all of these terms have in common? They all have a variety of meaning depending on context, intention and actual usage. They can all mean different things to different people. The propagandist relies on the comfort and familiarity of these words to put the intended audience at... Continue Reading →
MS-13 and the Left’s Problem with Moral Equivalency
Nancy Pelosi has rushed to defend the latest victims of Trump’s truth campaign. “Does he not believe in the spark of divinity, the dignity and worth of every person?” Her question/accusation speaks to the heart of the Left’s Achille’s Heel. They must give moral equivalence to everyone and everything that is not aligned with the... Continue Reading →
Fake News – Propaganda in Our Day: Part 2 – Name Calling
The repertoire of the propagandist is actually quite limited but the myriad variations of this limited number of tools is astounding. As I mentioned in Part 1 of this series, the IPA delineated 7 specific devices or tactics employed by the propagandist. Here is that list again with a brief description of each: Name Calling... Continue Reading →
Is Masculinity Toxic?
Ronald Reagan famously said: “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” You can see variations of this truth over and over from the liberal perspective. Guns are the root cause of gun violence. All Life is precious even unborn life except,... Continue Reading →
Fake News: The Propaganda of Our Time – Part 1
If you think fake news is anything modern or unprecedented, you have failed to listen to the voices of history. Fake news used to be called exactly what it is: propaganda. It is critical that we take a minute or two and step back from the loud cacophonous sounds of what passes for public debate... Continue Reading →
If you are not a man, stop talking about masculinity. If you are a man, start!
If you are not a male, stop talking about masculinity. There, I said it. I stand by it as well. If you are not a man, your only insight into masculinity is your narrow, personal subjective experiences with a minuscule representation of men. In other words, you don’t know anything about the topic beyond your... Continue Reading →
A Republic, If We Can Keep It
https://youtu.be/gS8WWdXS5uI As much fun as it is watching the main stream media fall all over itself to explain away the historic loss of the recent election, the discussion regarding the supposed “hacking” of the election is a very dangerous turn in a series of very dangerous accusations. Consider the danger of the government silencing voices... Continue Reading →
Trump Should Ignore the Media
The mainstream media must now earn the trust of the American people or face extinction as a source of news in this country. Donald Trump owes his astonishing victory to his brilliant plan to take his message directly to the American people via social media and mass rallies. Recognizing early on that he could not... Continue Reading →
Consider the Source
It has been interesting watching the progressives and party establishment types along with their academic and media acolytes striving to come up with a plausible answer as to why they lost the past election cycle. I am not just referring to the election of Donald Trump, but also to the complete evisceration of the left’s... Continue Reading →