By Wayne Allensworth A meme on social media is about a new political ad from the Democrats. In the ad, a guy is scrolling through pornography on his cell phone, only to be interrupted when the door bursts open and an ominous figure — The Man — comes in to end the fun. CENSORSHIP! The kind that matters to the sex-obsessed left. “They” — those mean, censorious Republicans — want to restrict your...
By Wayne Allensworth The vibe of this presidential election is different. Something’s in the air, the almost tangible sensation of a seismic political shift. This election does not fit the pattern that the usual suspects expect or anticipate. The political realignment that began with 2016 is playing out with the neocons returning to the leftist fold from whence they came, with many of the most...
By Wayne Allensworth America is quickly shifting from being a high trust society with lots of “social capital” to a condition much more common around the world, one in which ordinary people don’t trust institutions, don’t trust the government, and increasingly don’t trust one another. Professor Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, reluctantly concluded that some time ago. In an atomized, hyper...
By R. Cort Kirkwood Pro-Harris moderators of the CBS vice-presidential debate didn’t just blow one fact-check on immigration. They flubbed another on the question of whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was President Joe Biden’s “border czar.” U.S. Senator J.D. Vance said she was. CBS said she wasn’t. And CBS published that false claim despite its own reporting when Biden...
By Wayne Allensworth GOP U.S. Senator J.D. Vance lived up to this supporter’s expectations in dominating the stage during last night’s vice-presidential debate with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Vance was self-assured, confident, knowledgeable, yet gentlemanly in his performance. He did not allow the biased “moderators” to spin the show against him, and the hapless Walz ended up looking as though...
By Wayne Allensworth Students of history know that political assassinations are nothing new, that powerful political elites ruthlessly dispatch opponents. Thus do the two assassination attempts against former president Donald Trump occasion a look back at Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s removal of a singularly troublesome opponent. On December 1, 1934, Leonid Nikolayev assassinated Communist Party...
By Wayne Allensworth Bill and Shirley Allensworth Houston, Texas 1953 I recall the time and circumstances in which I knew once and for all I couldn’t go home again. It was 1992. We were back in Houston for Christmas. My wife and I took walks in the morning and passed still remaining landmarks that had taken on the air of museum exhibits. Or ruins. The post office. The old grocery store, now a...
By Wayne Allensworth If I had only one reason to vote for Trump-Vance in November, this would be enough: Kamala Harris voted against requiring doctors to render aid to babies born alive after a “botched” abortion. That alone tells us all we need to know about her and what her party has become. The “abortion van” outside the DNC only confirmed the ghoulishness of the ghastly, and, yes...
By Wayne Allensworth I recently finished reading J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. The takeaways from that reading include: Vance’s rejection of fatalistic hopelessness. Hopelessness is pervasive among Vance’s people, and many have fallen into drug addiction, which has spurred on the collapse of the family. Encouraged by grandparents who expended so much of their lives and energy raising...
By Wayne Allensworth By now, all of you have registered the public outrage over biological males boxing females in the Olympics. Social conservatives have expressed dismay over the pummeling the former have given the latter. They often mistake what is going on in the boxing competition in Paris for “trans” athletes (biological men who have “transitioned”) beating up women. In this case, the...
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