Four years after this administration took office, the Founders’ creation is barely recognizable. After eight years it may no longer be possible to reclaim what has been destroyed. Consider the following summary of what may be in store as a motivator for the apathetic.   Read the rest of this entry »

In this, the season of our discontent, we are reminded of why we should be thankful. At the top of the list is that we live in America. Whether our progenitors arrived on the Mayflower or were among one of the later waves of immigrants, we should be grateful just to be here.   Read the rest of this entry »

While Britannica's two book set on Western Ethics and Thinkers provides a great deal more than high school students are likely to learn in college, the authors attempt to do double duty, first to provide surveys of the history of Western ethics and thinkers and second to satisfy prevailing trends in education.   Read the rest of this entry »

A 1990 FCC mandated program to provide discounted or free telephone service to income-eligible consumers was expanded a few years ago to include cell phones. This is yet another entitlement program which redefines the word "necessity" on the taxpayer's dime.   Read the rest of this entry »

While all three volumes of Britannica's Separation of Powers series do a credible job of explaining the evolution of each branch of government, the treatment of individual jurists, legislators, and executives is not always even handed. Many of the discussions display a subtle, but discernible lack of objectivity.   Read the rest of this entry »

Isn’t anyone asking why the municipalities under siege have not responded more aggressively to the rioters that are engulfing them? Why are the mobs permitted to camp where no camping is allowed, vandalize property, block traffic, harass citizens, and rape and loot each other? They are not exercising their right to free expression anymore than someone who yells fire in a crowded theater.   Read the rest of this entry »

The mobocracy is just the latest Democrat entitlement program since taxpayers in cities afflicted with the Occupiers will pay millions for cleaning up the mobs’ messes, property destruction, and extra municipal services.   Read the rest of this entry »

Not even Tocqueville perceived an executive so desperate for re-election that he would be willing to sell the nation into penury to achieve it.   Read the rest of this entry »

William Fowler’s American Crisis describes a period neglected by most historians. Contrary to popular perception, the struggle for freedom came very close to being lost during the two years after Yorktown. Readers will find this book absorbing and difficult to put down.   Read the rest of this entry »

In Jonathan Swift's words ... "But as to my self, having been wearied out for many Years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of Success, I fortunately fell upon this Proposal, which as it is wholly new, so it hath something Solid and Real, of no Expence and little Trouble, full in our own Power…"   Read the rest of this entry »