I once believed that to be in a bad mood was a social transgression, no less offensive than halitosis or body odor, and certainly just as avoidable. I believed that a man was to endeavor to always be a beacon of light, hope, and happiness, and that anything less...
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After the Exxon Valdez disaster, Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. It required oil companies to pay an 8 cent tax on all oil produced or imported into the United States. In exchange for this act, the companies were guaranteed a maximum liability of $75 million dollars...
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I remember when I had everything going for me, a good job, a wonderful woman who loved me, and a deep sense of purpose. I chased goals bigger than most people allow themselves to dream. I had an intense desire to serve, and to do righteous things. I was...
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This is an acclamation, a manifesto, a call-to-action to men all across our great nation. Ours is a generation of false greatness. Social engineers frame nobleness of character in such broad strokes as to render even the most crass of participants worthy of the title. We venerate the wicked,...
readmore Blog, Essays, Featured“The Five Thousand Year Leap,” first published in 1981 by the late Cleon Skousen, provides an essential introduction to the Founding of our Nation. Mr. Skousen approaches the Founding as a miracle, not unlike the Moses’ parting of the Red Sea or Jesus’ healing. Indeed, he declares that Heaven was intimately involved in the unfurling ...
readmore Book ReviewsThis is an acclamation, a manifesto, a call-to-action to men all across our great nation. Ours is a generation of false greatness. Social engineers frame nobleness of character in such broad strokes as to render even the most crass of participants worthy of the title. We venerate the wicked, and thus demean the venerable. We ...
readmore Blog, EssaysThe Atlantic Review recently postulated that there may be little use in the economic classification of countries. Citing the fracturing of BRIC nations and the PIGS investment blocks, blogger Andrew Zvirzdin asks, “How should we classify countries economically? Is there any value in grouping problem areas?” The confusion in the postulation lies not in the ...
readmore Essays“Arguing With Idiots” by Glenn Beck, no doubt the most appropriate title ever given a book, besides maybe “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus,” is the most laid back approach to government overreach, the entitlement crisis, and cliché arguments from the left. The book is intended to be used as a desktop reference ...
readmore Book ReviewsThe Establishment Clause is held in league as both the most sublime and intuitive as well as the most manipulated of any Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The lack of consensus in case law is so staggering, and the popular interpretation of the “wall of separation” doctrine espoused in Jefferson’s ...
readmore Essays, FeaturedI have a habit when the issues of the day seem to split the American socio-political stage: I go back to the Founding. I go back and review the feelings, the purposes, and the fears of those architects of our country. There was a time when Americans prided themselves in the system of government where ...
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