Collecting My Thoughts

Sometimes we oldsters complain that "kids today" don't know American history as we learned it in the 50s and 60s. But we'v...

It is all such a mess. I’m as angry at the insignificant as I am the overwhelming.  When I look at my church website I see no order or sense...

Air Canada announced that it no longer will use the phrase “ladies and gentlemen” on board its flights, as part of a “commitment to respect ...

The Democrats will continue to drag us kicking and screaming into some wasteland of Marxist gulag, but I think it has been slowed down jus...

It's no secret that I'm on here and Facebook a lot, plus several on-line e-mail discussion groups. That said, I think social media ...

"There is consternation about the hard line Trump takes on immigrants and about the morality of a thrice-married man who has long brag...

Photo from 1991.  Flowers from our patio today. I'm enjoying seeing the mother stories as we near Mother's Day on Facebook....

Think back to 2012.  Just four brief years ago, before Obama's second term. President Obama was still supporting traditional marriage....

My exercycle is next to my bookshelf, so for my third mile of the day I pulled a book off the shelf I'm not sure I ever read, The Clos...

“The president’s mention of the visa waiver program comes at a time of heightened scrutiny for the program. In recent weeks, members of Cong...

These shootings are a symptom of deep and serious cultural decay in our society. Let that sink in for a minute. These acts of evil are a...

The real problem for black poverty and white privilege: marriage.  But from now until the election, what the federal government has done to ...

Leave the party of ignorance of history, dumb on biology and naive about culture. Forget the party that thinks a 7 month old unborn baby isn...

This past week has seen the outrage generated by parents of donor and invitro-fertilization children following a now-infamous Panorama maga...

If it is something that binds Americans together, the liberals/progressives are protesting it, suing it, fighting it and smearing it on soci...

“Imagining America was founded at a 1999 White House Conference initiated by the White House Millennium Council, the University of Michigan...

               Shocking isn't it?  Love, compassion, gentleness, kindness, patience, cheerfulness, respect, humility, conjugal fidelity,...

Looking back through his writings, I'd say YES. Five or ten years ago he was obsessed with correcting self-centered, me-and-Jesus Chris...

Whether gay or straight Republicans can't catch a break. Democrats can frolic and wallow in a pit of slime, and everyone says, Oh well,...

The high cost of utopia For every three “imperfect” children (in our stunted minds, not God’s) we may be losing two “perfect” children. “Two...