The First of September has always interested me. It was on that day that World War II started. Last year, on the 75th Anniversary of that awful moment, I wrote a special post about it. This year I am struck by how, in Europe, World War II did not start with a surprise attack, like Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Instead, a madman running an evil regime slowly consolidated his national power while repeatedly telling the world exactly what he was going to do. But the world, and particularly his...
Note: I apologize for the unusual length of this post. I tried to divide it into two or three parts, but I found that the key concepts work closely together and cannot be easily separated. I hope that you find the content and conclusions worth the read. We are in a constant battle with secularists who proclaim that neither God’s rules for living nor His provision for our redemption is important or relevant for modern life. This spiritual war continues, and the recent Supreme Court ruling on...
It has now been almost seven years since the world went through its last financial meltdown, or Black Swan, and from sixty-eight years of personal observation, it’s about time for another one, because they always eventually happen, no matter what the elites and the regulators promise. A good definition of a Black Swan is at BlackSwanEvents.org: “A Black Swan event is an event in human history that was unprecedented and unexpected at the point in time it occurred. However, after evaluating the...
I was rummaging around in the future and found this Boy Scouts of America policy document, distributed in 2023. It was written for the large group of gay Boy Scout leaders who began entering the movement after the national organization ended its ban on gay leaders in 2017 . I believe you will find the following excerpts to be interesting. The Gay Boy Scout Leader’s Manual August, 2023 Edition Provided by the Gay Action Group (GAG) of the Boy Scouts of America Selected Excerpts: Introduction...
Are you already as done with the 2016 Election Cycle as I am? Talking heads. He said-she said-he said. Attack ads. Scorched earth. All about “me”. Are we really going to spend more than a year with a large gaggle of seemingly qualified conservative leaders rearranging the deck chairs, hoping when the music stops that the last seat is theirs, while the Ship of State actually sinks and everyone else drowns in a sea of debt, low employment, lost opportunity and class warfare? Not to mention...
The political class is using your tax dollars to replenish and to grow its numbers with young people who are true believers in the government’s importance. For years there have been programs to reduce a graduate’s monthly college loan payments due to income constraints, and also to forgive the educational debt all together. There are many negative aspects to these programs, both personal and national, as has depicted by several writers, including Jeffrey Dorfman in articles in Forbes. I want...
If you were in a line of fast moving cars running in and out of fog and suddenly the fog parted and you could see that the bridge ahead had just collapsed, and that cars were falling into the deep canyon, would you continue to speed forward because you enjoy how your car accelerates, or would you stop? Imagine that each of the speeding cars is one of the world’s economies, and the precipice is the disaster which occurs when a nation runs up so much debt in paying for its profligate spending...
One of our children recently lamented how difficult it is in the current political climate to understand what really is "truth", since all sides seem to claim it. He declared himself to be a post-modern when it comes to issues and candidates. That conclusion troubled me, and so I set out to find truths outside of the current political cycle which can help inform us about how we should look at issues and at candidates. The following is the result of that process. “Truth is simple, and...
Besides being Labor Day in the U.S., today is the 75th Anniversary of the start of World War II. Six years later, in 1945, over 60 million men, women and children had been horrifically killed by world powers, partisans, and their own governments. That works out to 27,400 people killed every day for six years. In a “civilized” world, and in the living memory of many today. The trigger for the start was Germany’s invasion of Poland on a trumped up border dispute. The seeds of the war were...
This short post is a thanks to KMPH-CA for its video report about "ObamaCare Having A Destructive Effect On ERs". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3mU7eRPYSE Where was this kind of common sense reporting when the "Health Law-That-Can-Be-Anything" was first concocted? If you increase Demand for anything, like healthcare, the price will rise. But if the price is artificially capped, then Supply will not follow, and there will be shortages (the doctors), rationing (the ER’s) and a black market...
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