Originally published as a letter-to-the-editor in the Sioux City Journal, I wrote that for all of our faults as a country, we are still the greatest country in the world. Nowhere does that mean that there isn’t much work to do nor that we shouldn’t critically think of ways to improve and progress in the [...]
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American Exceptionalism
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged American exceptionalism on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Strange, Sad, Bizarre Story of Kevin Hart
Posted in Culture on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our culture seems fascinated with celebrity, and who hasn’t wanted to be the one all eyes were on? Especially in the midst of the Heisman, playoffs, and the flocking of hordes to have one touch, autograph, smile, be photographed, I have even wondered if my days were over to grab the spotlight in college football. [...]
Valkyrie–The Meaning of Resistance
Posted in Art, Culture, Uncategorized, tagged Bonhoeffer, character, story, the German Resistance, Valkyrie on December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Attention must be paid to such a man.” While Valkyrie highlights the resistance made by Claus Von Stauffenberg, it doesn’t pay enough attention to the man himself. Valkyrie is a well-made, tightly woven story of a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer and save not only Germany via a truce with the Allies, but in doing so [...]
America is Exceptional
Posted in Culture, Politics, Race on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
American conservatism is often derided by the Left for exceptionalism, or the belief that as a country, we’re different and exceptional (which sometimes leads to unilateralism on the order of Mark Steyn’s America Alone.) And there are always the two dangerous ditches– one of vanity and hubris which blinds one to the faults of his [...]
Finally–Stephen Curry, the NCAA Dream Role Model
Posted in Culture, tagged character, role models, Stephen Curry on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Unless you are completely oblivious during March (and without cable or having seen an entire March Madness game we nearly qualify), you have heard the name Stephen Curry, the diminutive superstar who is smashing records, has elevated virtually unheard of Davidson to the Elite Eight, and stands poised in the next hour to once again [...]
No One Left to Lie To: Where did the magic go? By Mark Steyn
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged Clinton, lies, presidential politics on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
About this business of Hillary coming under intense sniping, I have some sympathy. The Clintons got away with this sort of thing for so long that you can’t blame them for wondering how they missed the memo advising that henceforth the old rules no longer apply. Bill, being warier, was usually canny enough to set [...]
Louis Farrakhan on Barack Obama, Churches, and Satan’s Rule
Posted in Culture, Politics, Race, Religion, tagged America, connection, Farrakhan, Obama, Satan on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Satan doesn’t intend to be uprooted by an upstart from Chicago” –Louis Farrakhan
I am posting this because I think that it is informative and noteworthy. Obviously, Obama has said that he has rejected “Minister Farrakhan’s” remarks. The following was posted on Youtube, and I find Farrakhan to be masterful at playing the secret knowledge card [...]
The Cognitive Gap–Defending Obama by Mark Goldblatt
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged abstract painting, American consciousness, Goldblatt, Obama, unjustifiable on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although the American consciousness has a need for a Barack Obama, a post-racial, African-American politician of unsurpassed eloquence that promises unity, charity, and progress, I believe there is a better explanation: Obama is the marvel that critics get when viewing an abstract painting, a Freudian critic who sees sexual overtones in every bit of dialogue, [...]
If the Shoe Were on the Right [Not Left] Foot
Posted in Culture, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged McCain, Obama, racist Left on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Obama’s revelations are instructive. As a conservative, I had once deep aspirations that you would have come in the style of a Frederick Douglass or Martin Luther King, Jr. as a writer and thinker who truly meant what he said–we are Americans, one, past the need for being a “race essentialist,” to quote Jonah [...]
Justifying a Scandalous Dereliction by Charles Krauthammer
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged Obama, white guilt on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The beauty of a speech is that you don’t just give the answers, you provide your own questions. “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.” So said Barack Obama, in his Philadelphia speech about his pastor, friend, mentor, and spiritual adviser of 20 years, [...]
