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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Bowling Alone

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In the year 2000 Robert Putnam released his much cited book Bowling Alone which described the erosion over the previous thirty years of wha...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Ten Democrat Anchors

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As we sail toward November's mid-term elections the Democrat ship seems to be dragging a number of anchors that threaten to pull them un...
Monday, October 3, 2022

Why Beauty?

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One characteristic of living things that has thrilled everyone who has ever considered it is the astonishing level of beauty they exhibit. C...
Saturday, October 1, 2022

To Relieve Poverty Get Government Out of the Way

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Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute wrote a book a few years ago titled The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor in wh...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Update on the War in Ukraine

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Strategy Page has a good summary of developments in the war in Ukraine as of ten days ago. I've included a map at he bottom to help u...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

A Proposal for Deterrence

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As his troops suffer battlefield defeats, poor morale and disarray, and as his critics in Russia have suffered a sudden outbreak of falling ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Commitment to America

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One of the criticisms that Democrats have employed against Republicans is that they have no platform, no ideas, going into the November ele...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The Astonishing Stork's Bill

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The John 10:10 Project has produced some wonderful videos, beautifully shot and compelling in the case they make for a mind behind the unive...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Male/Female Equality

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There's a kind of thinking prevalent in our contemporary culture which might be called "egalitarian absolutism." It goes somet...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Repressive Tolerance

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A friend wrote recently quoting a VP post from a couple of years ago and it occurred to me that the post is as relevant today as it was then...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Machines Will Never be Human

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In a post on Artificial Intelligence last July I wrote that: A lot of people do believe that computers will one day surpass human beings ...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

True for Me but Not for You

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Perhaps the most calamitous of the casualties of our postmodern age is the loss of belief in objective truth. The notion that all truth, ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

November's Vote

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A friend whose political views are almost diametrically opposed to my own wrote to me recently about the upcoming midterm elections. In the ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

The Political Spectrum

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An important election is seven weeks away and we'll probably be hearing a lot of talk about liberals and conservatives, socialists and l...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Sharpshooter

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The 8:00 minute video below captures the amazing abilities of a fish known as the Archerfish. As you watch the video ask yourself how many...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Hispanics Are Finding a Home on the Right

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I made the claim on VP yesterday that those, like our vice-president, who cynically insist that the border is secure while allowing millions...
Friday, September 16, 2022

The Border Wall Would've Been Cheap

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During the last years of the Obama administration there were lots of arguments over whether we should or shouldn't build a wall on our s...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Imprisoned in the Friend Zone

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Hans Feine, writing at The Federalist a few years back, saw at the time a very serious social problem looming on the near horizon, and his ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

The Problem with Scientism

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Philosopher J.P.Moreland has written a fine book titled Scientism and Secularism (2018) from which some of what follows has been borrowed. ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Russian Humiliation

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Last March an arrogant, amoral Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine. They thought it'd be a walkover, but they've come to realize...