When the Supreme Court sent up a trial balloon as to the future of Roe V. Wade six weeks ago, I posted on the topic of Abortion. Now that the current nine have overturned the nine of five decades ago, it is time for me to repeat some of what I wrote and expand...

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) had a birthday last Friday, which is still celebrated posthumously every year. After receiving a degree from Atlanta University, Johnson returned home to Jacksonville, Florida in 1894 and became the principal of...

The current spate of anti-intellectualism is only a very specific form of a much broader and more pernicious syndrome, anti-high mindedness, the fallacious idea that applying humanitarian ideals and morality is a mistake. The problem is not new! Think of all the old...

I’ll start with a disclaimer! I am not a Trump hater! It is none of his policy decisions that disqualifies him from the Presidency. It’s his technique! Politics is not roller derby, and the best past presidents didn’t try to ram everything through like a roller derby...

In reference to the proliferation of senseless and brutal mass murders of innocent people many have offered solutions, all have been largely ignored. As usual, the answer is all of the above, or, in this case, all of the below: One very sensible solution is to...

There were over 40,000 traffic fatalities in the United States alone last year. That number will shrink to near zero in the future, because we will no longer be driving ourselves around. We will be passengers in autonomous vehicles. When I write fiction, I often set...

Racism is our worst enemy, world-wide, and Replacement theory rhetoric is racism. Even before Charlie Manson convinced his followers to kill innocent people in a failed attempt to ignite a race war, many have been morally compromised and eaten up with racial hatred....

I won’t say abortions are good for society, and I will also not say that unwanted children are bad for society. There are way too many real-life cases that disprove both those mistaken opinions. Unquestionably, children that grow up without effective nurturing and...

Newsweek recently printed a piece that tries to tie anti-intellectualism to rural America. The author makes the case, with little evidence, that climate change denial and anti-vaccine sentiments are part of the identity of people who live in rural America. Presumably,...

Many people use their social media platforms to decry the Main Stream Media (MSM) in general, as if there is a unified and monolithic institution actively engaged in pushing an agenda of liberal mind control. It isn’t true! The “Media” has historically had its...