Reviews and Reflections on Life In America
By Wayne Allensworth The boy jumped over a fence and headed toward the pond, where a rock pile at one end made a rippling waterfall. It’s cold out, a few days past a warm Christmas. The wind is blowing fiercely, and the last leaves have flown and left naked branches on the trees near the pond. The limbs rattle and sway on the tallest trunks. The evergreens provide splashes of color against the...
By Darrell Dow For years, the “right” condemned the corruption of the post–Cold War managerial state that hollowed out America’s economy, while enriching a cloistered elite. The Biden Crime Family’s self-dealing became a symbol of this rot. But under the banner of “nationalism,” American foreign policy is now being devised and implemented by a handful of real estate developers and financiers...
By Wayne Allensworth Decembers are strange in these parts. It’s cold — in the 30s — but the leaves have not fallen. Fall and winter mingle. I enjoy watching the leaves turn to reds and oranges and even purplish hues. The breeze is beginning to take some of them away, but they have a way to go before they all pile up in yards and on the trail I walk each morning. The pond shimmers in the morning...
By Wayne Allensworth Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of Godas a little child, he shall not enter therein — Mark 10:15 My grandchildren remind me of Jesus’ comments about the faith of little children. To be sure, Proverbs told us to raise our children properly, that they should not depart from the way. But I believe that Christ was referring to something innate in...
By Wayne Allensworth In another one of his frequent, nearly inexplicable zigzags, President Donald Trump recently said that Republican House members should vote for legislation calling for the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. But he only conceded the point after it became apparent that a number of Republicans would vote that way regardless. The Senate passed the bill on...
By Wayne Allensworth It’s approaching mid-November and in the morning sky the rising sun, bright as it climbs in a China blue firmament, has moved closer to the moon, a half orb at this stage, the half facing the sun bright and clear, reflecting morning’s light. The leaves are turning finally, after a second Indian summer and then the onset of fall temperatures. I follow a stream and arch my neck...
By Darrell Dow In the last five years, the net worth of the top 0.1 percent has rocketed from $12 trillion to $23 trillion. The average new homebuyer is 59 years old, up from 36 15 years ago. To deal with affordability anxieties, President Trump — supposedly representing populist right economics — endorsed 50-year mortgages. It’s no wonder Generation Z is seething with frustration. Their...
By Wayne Allensworth When President Trump’s second term began almost a year ago, I was ready to give him and his team every benefit of every doubt. And it appeared for a while like there might even be some semblance of a plan to dismantle the administrative state. That hope was unfounded. Team Trump has no plan, no strategic vision, and no real understanding of what faces us. What Trump and his...
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) The FBI stopped an ISIS-linked terror plot set for Ferndale, Michigan, during the Halloween weekend, the Justice Department announced today. A federal criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of Michigan accuses two residents of Dearborn — a seething, buzzing hive of hundreds of thousands of Muslims — of planning the attack with three co...
By Wayne Allensworth William Blake’s Newton (1795) He [Newton] seems meant to be associated with the rock on which he sits, emphasizing Blake’s view that the laws of Newtonian physics had fixed the world in Urizenic petrification, as later stated in A Descriptive Catalogue: “The Horse of Intellect is leaping from the cliffs of Memory and Reasoning; it is a barren Rock: it is also called the...
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