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The Twilight of the USA and the Way Forward

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The summer sun is fading as the year grows old,And darker days are drawing near,The winter winds will be much colder,Now you’re not here… It’s mid-September, and the sun already seems to be setting lower in a sky of lengthening shadows.  The temperatures have noticeably dropped off.  Autumn, such as it is in this part of the country, appears to already have begun settling in...

Define Crazy …

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… /ˈkrāzē/ informaladjective

Someone so unhinged the editors at Merriam Webster have a video with which to illustrate the word in their online dictionary.

“Woman went crazy on hearing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.”

ginsburg’s wish is not our command

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By R. Cort Kirkwood “My most fervent wish,” the late and lamented Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, “is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” One hopes Madame Ginsburg was exaggerating when she said her “most fervent wish” regarded her replacement, not the salvation of her eternal soul, but forgetting that, a few...

David French, Call Your Office

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Memo to Never Trumpers: anyone who would rather see Justice Ginsburg’s replacement chosen by Joe Biden, who helped make “Bork” a verb, was never a conservative in any meaningful sense, and please don’t insult our intelligence by pretending otherwise.

The Revolution Will Continue, Regardless of the Election’s Outcome

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In a recent piece on “woke capital” in The American Conservative, Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried wrote that “the fascist enemy for the cultural left never goes away.”  Dr. Gottfried went on to mention New York Times film critic Manohla Dargas, in a comment on the film Dunkirk, writing that “the fight against fascism continues.” We know, of course, which “fascists” Dargas had in mind: Us...

Snitches Get Stitches

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Remember the professor who said it was OK to kill Trump supporters?

Another former professor offered this two years ago: It’s OK to murder kids who want to be police.

Bonus: It was Jessica Krug, the same professor who confessed to pretending she was black.

Skin in the Game

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I think we’d be better off if more Americans knew more about their own family’s history. Not only would most of us come away with a renewed sense of gratitude for America, we would also be better able to evaluate the claims of today by something other than the standards of today. Case in point: my paternal great-grandfather, Joseph Piatak, who was born in rural Slovakia in 1868. Three...

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