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This morning the website American Thinker has published my latest essay.  “Young People, Listen to Your Gen-X Elders: Communism Sucks!” is something that’s been percolating for awhile and  I suppose recent events in the American political realm made it time to deploy.  This article is a few things: history lesson (has it really been thirty-five years since I was a high school senior watching the attempted coup against Gorbechev?), recap of the rise of extreme socialism in this country, and finishing off with a stark warning to the young people of this land.  Take it from someone who was there during the height of the Cold War: communism is NOT something we should want to entertain notions of accommodating, much less adopting (or having it forced upon us).


From the article…

The ad begins with a poor Russian peon, bundled up for the harsh winter, cautiously asking a stern

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I haven’t written anything in the way of an op-ed piece in quite some time now.  I’d honestly wondered if I have lost my touch.  Like, was getting my book published the peak experience I will ever have?  I don’t want it to be that way.  As I wrote in the final pages of my book, I have spent half a lifetime fighting something that has taken so much from me.  Getting that back matters an awful lot.

This morning American Thinker, a site I’ve long admired, published my first essay for a wider audience since January of last year.  “Holding the Media Responsible for the SPLC Scandal” is something that I must confess I had some pleasure in writing.  For decades I’ve watched too many journalists cite Southern Poverty Law Center as a legitimate source of information.  I can only imagine the looks on the faces ...

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Continuing my commitment to write a new op-ed piece each week of 2025 (or aspiring to anyway), news and commentary website American Thinker – a site I can’t recommend nearly enough – has just published my latest.

In ‘It’s Time to Cleans the White House Press Corps”, arguments are laid out for why the gaggle of journalists assigned to cover the president and his affairs should be thoroughly pruned down.  Not just because too many of them have demonstrated they can’t strive for impartiality either.  If for no other reason it’s because “traditional” outlets like CNN and Washington Post have had their audiences wiped out over the course of recent years, while more “alternative” media has emerged as the inheritors of that mantle.

Here’s a snippet:

When the Internet first came into widespread use, it was envisioned that it would bring with it the end of gatekeeping. Never more

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I like to think that I’m getting my mojo back as a writer.  This past week saw four articles of mine getting published on a couple of outlets.  That’s a bunch more than I’d previously been capable of writing.  Maybe I’m finally getting adjusted to both bipolar disorder and the medication to treat it.  Especially the meds.  Can’t escape feeling like they’ve sapped a lot of ability out of me these past several years.

But for now I’m writing.  And I feel great.

First of all there’s an article I turned in for The Western Journal about longtime Democrats fleeing their former party.

Then there’s a piece for American Thinker about Barack Obama’s warehouse in Chicago that almost certainly contains classified documents.

A few days ago Western Journal posted a lil’ write-up about how electric powered aircraft still can’t match what the Wright Brothers were doing after their historic first ...

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American Thinker, a site I often go to for insight and commentary, this morning published my latest piece for them.  This essay addresses the leftist fantasies about so-called “green energy” and eliminating emissions.

From the article:

And then there are other considerations about the fallout from the
failed fantasy.  Which would you rather have in an emergency,
say, evacuating from a hurricane: a reliable car running on gasoline, or
an electric vehicle without a ready charge available?  The potential
loss of life from people unable to drive to safer ground would be
enormous.  Or consider an electric-powered ambulance, that runs out of
juice en route to the hospital with a stroke victim.

These are the
realities that leftists are not acknowledging.  They refuse to accept
that energy comes from something other than unicorn flatulence.  They
are instead proverbially sticking their fingers in their ears while
singing “La-La-La-Dee-Dah” when anyone broaches the impracticality ...

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I might have broken whole new ground in op-ed writing by using the word “Pufnstuf”.  But anyhoo, American Thinker this morning has published a new article by Yours Truly.  “And then they came for the Muppets…” delves into Disney’s slapping an “offensive material” disclaimer on several episodes of The Muppet Show.

A sample from the piece:

These declaimers are micro-sermons about the virtues of inclusion. They are meant to “foster dialogue.” But anyone who sits the children down for a heart-to-heart discussion about Muppet morality probably doesn’t get the point of the Muppets anyway. These disclaimers, along with all the others that Disney is slapping onto Lady and the Tramp and Peter Pan and other films, accomplish nothing of the sort. They are nuisances at best. By the end of the show the average child will have forgotten all about them.

That’s the second article in a row ...

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I have a new article up at American Thinker this morning.  “Cancelling Gina Carano: Work Worthy of an Evil Empire” addresses what happened last week in regard to Disney firing one of the lead actors of its series The Mandalorian (image: Disney).  Gina Carano made a post on social media that some allege was anti-Semitic and overly controversial.  But was it really?  Especially in light of the fact that others associated with the Star Wars franchise have made statements just as “controversial” and saw no repercussion.

In short: was Carano let go because she leans conservative?

As always, comments are welcome....

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 Kindest miss,

Good lady, you make me blush furiously!

Sad to say, I am not taken.  But I would never stop thanking God if he did bring into my life some wonderful lass to court and woo and come to be joined in matrimony with.

Anyone wanting to inquire further can reach me by email at theknightshift@gmail.com

What I’m looking for in a lady is not much: someone who loves God more than she would love me, won’t mind that I’m a Star Wars geek, loves to travel, and believes in ideas over ideologies.  Also must love dogs. I have a miniature dachshund.  Extra points if she enjoys the music of “Weird Al” Yankovic.

For the right person I’d be willing to relocate just about anywhere.

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American Thinker this morning published my latest article.  “Must We Respect a Fraudulent President” says what it means and means what it says: in light of the significant amount of evidence that chicanery most foul took place during the November 3rd election, how can anyone in Joseph Biden’s position claim to have a mandate to be the leader of the free world?

Here’s a clip:

The matter of unjust measures is brought up at least nine times in the Old Testament. “Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good,” reads Proverbs 20:23. Absent reverence for holy writings, it still is to be noted: the ballot box is sacred. To violate it is to breach the contract that countless Americans have fought and suffered and died for.

And so circumstance not seen for a century and more has come about. We are faced with

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Just think: a few years later chunks of that wall were being sold at K-Mart. 

Friends, I have a secret to tell.  I’ve waited decades… decades… for the chance to use the word “perestroika” in a written piece.  Not even during college and my senior history thesis – about the Russian space program and how it had tracked with that country’s politics since Nicholas II’s reign – did “perestroika” get to be employed.

I guess “perestroika” on some weird level is for me, what “smock” was to Hobbes:
Credit: the peculiar genius of Bill Watterson
Anyway, the considerate curators of conservative-ish contemplation at American Thinker have published a second article from me in as many days, and I am extremely thankful for that.  “The Fall of the Deep State and 1989’s Fall of Communism” relates some parallels between the events that transpired across Eastern Europe thirty years ago
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