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 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...
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Another Indian illegal-alien truck driver has been charged in the vehicular homicide of three people. Police have charged Jashanpreet Singh — whom the Biden administration caught entering the country illegally and released at the border — with manslaughter while driving under the influence. The triple homicide is the second such crash in two months by an...
By Wayne Allensworth October will be over soon. In my part of the world, the weather will noticeably change as November begins. In October, we have Indian Summer days that are very warm, but the temperatures gradually decline. The sun is not as bright, and mornings and evenings are crisp and clear, one’s sight enhanced by the diminished glare, increasing the depth and sharpness of one’s vision...
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has referred disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for prosecution. The six-page referral sent today to Attorney General Pam Bondi from the Ohio Republican accuses Brennan of perjury before the Judiciary Committee. Brennan delivered two perjurious statements proven false by the...
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