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    “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”   “People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”   “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want …

I believe I’ve lived most of my life as a compassionate human being. I’ve always rooted for the underdog…merely because they were the underdog. I gave scant thought to whether they were justified in who they were or the end they pursued. My eyes became misty as a long struggling underdog made it to a better place…overcoming all the odds. …

“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore, so it eats it! It’s rather like getting tenure.” ― Daniel …

    “A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” ―Bertrand Russell   As I read a recent essay in America Thinker, I drifted back to some of my prior thoughts on the same subject. In part he wrote (humorously):   “At …

“I use the term, “The Beast,” to describe the moral-induced inability to confront something like an unarmed invasion.” Jean Raspail; Camp of the Saints   NOTE: This is an updated version of an essay I had previously published. Its message provides one of increasing importance as illustrated by the headline stories below.   Headlines (11/23/23) offered:   “Can Europe Become Western Again?”… …

  While the release of fifty hostages must be celebrated, there are a myriad of other thoughts that must accompany this event. I will state those as a series of discrete thoughts that, I believe, are worth considering. I totally reject a comment that I recently read, “The release of fifty hostages today is worth the concerns for a thousand …

“Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty – to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America’s domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle – either victory or martyrdom.” Ahmed Yassin   The Western response to Islamic Jihadic terrorism has not changed. You will scarcely, if at all, …

Anecdotes seldom matter. What follows is an anecdote that I believe has something to say.   While I was raised a Roman Catholic, as my life events unfolded, I became aware that my “birthing” father was an Ashkenazi Jew…never knew him…couldn’t have cared less. That is a very long story that I won’t relate to you here. Ancestry.com listed me as …

  The use of quotations has been described in many ways.  One cynical writer offered that, “They are the last refuge of the ignorant.” Of course, he was building that thought upon another quotation from Samuel Johnson. I prefer to align with Benjamin Disraeli’s view that, “The wisdom of the wise, the experience of the ages, are perpetuated by quotations.”    …

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln   Tomorrow, September 17th is Constitution Day.  It is this date, the day The Constitution was ratified in 1787, that represents the actual moment that this great nation came into being.  …