Today’s  blog takes direct aim at our “cultural elites,” including both self-styled elites and governmental elites.  The catalyst for this was a statistic I heard coming from the Barna Group.  The polling organization was doing surveys on homosexual marriage, freedom of religion, etc.  One poll found that about 20% of all adults surveyed believed that […]

There is much to say about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. For those interested in the text, go here. Just like the march toward gay marriage, the reactions to it have been swift and unrelenting.* Though I am sorely tempted to write more about the actual decision, I would rather focus on our […]

The latest session of the United States Supreme Court is finished.  It was both busy and momentous (not always in a positive way).  A few decisions were good.  many were not. But the Supreme Court did get one important case right this term.  That was the last case it handed down, the case of Michigan […]

You know, it might seem like a small thing, but the lighting of the White House the evening of the homosexual marriage decision with the colors of the LGBT movement told me something about the people running it—and to a large extent, running our country.  Throughout history when military victories were won, the victor was […]

Today’s Democratic Party is apostate – not that the Republican Party is the epitome of virtue, mind you (far from it).  But as a Christian voter primarily faced with these two “evils,” I find the political options to be hypothetically similar to having to choose between voting for Lot or casting a vote for the […]

Financial markets are on edge with Greece this a.m., as Greece banks are closed and there will be a referendum to get public permission from Mr. Tsipras to break his electoral promise and impose austerity conditions to get more aid from the Europeans.  As a Euro skeptic from the beginning, I wonder when the charade […]

As many (most?) had expected the Supreme Court held today that homosexual marriage is some sort of fundamental right under the Due Process and  Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clauses.  The case was decided by a narrow 5-4 majority, with—of course—Justice Anthony Kennedy writing the opinion and the other justices lining up predictably on either side.  […]

The Confederate Flag has become, somewhat surprisingly, the focal point of the Charleston, SC shooting tragedy. Though I agree the flag should be removed from public buildings and from any representation on state flags, I am concerned by how it has happened. History is a weapon in the culture war and things will only progress […]

Well, the Supreme Court has done it again.  By a vote of 6-3, including in the majority Chief Justice John Roberts, the court in the case of King v. Burwell, upheld the Obama administration’s reading of the Obamacare law that dealt with state exchanges.  You may remember, that this had been the subject of a […]

This is Part Two of my long blog concerning Pope Francis’s global climate change (and generally environmental and poverty focused) encyclical Laudato Si, issued last Thursday.  I am a little to sorry to say this part will be at least as long as the first, but look at this way:  You could read the full […]