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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’m going to come out and say it:

It is absolutely shameful what is happening right now in Rockingham County politics.

Regardless of distance in its various measures, I have still been proud to be a son of Reidsville and the surrounding area.  But what I’m seeing lately from afar is utterly heartbreaking.

Twenty years ago I was a candidate for public office in Rockingham County.  I didn’t win my race but it still became one of the greatest experiences of my life.  My campaign was an honest, sincere, and upbeat one.  It was FUN!  When the results came in, there was no bitterness at all for not getting a seat on the school board.  There had been too much enjoyment from coming to meet new people, hearing and talking about ideas, harnessing creativity to make signs and shirts and television ads.  I didn’t run against anyone per se.  I ...

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It really shouldn’t have been any surprise, that the Bad Bunny performance would be so ridden with vile content (in whatever language it was “sung” in).   Or there was one person who is now a bit more educated on matters than I had been before this morning.  I understand now, and I see that “entertainment” like what happened at the Super Bowl is just going to continue and grow increasingly worse.

It turns out that ever since 2020 or so the Super Bowl halftime shows have been produced by Jay-Z.  The guy who made an unconscionable amount of money rapping about gangs, drugs, sex, violence… you get the picture.  I will never understand why it is that some of the most negative aspects of the human condition are so commonly deemed to be high art to be praised by all.  But we are far from the glorious years of ...

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There is both jubilation and lamentation abounding tonight following Congress’s approval of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”.  Personally, I have some mixed feelings about it.  I’m not going to let the shrill hysteria coming from some quarters persuade me that it’s an entirely bad thing though.

I think the thing I’ve heard most from those opposing the budget is that it’s going to starve “millions” of people.  And that it’s going to deprive many others of necessary medication.

Well, let’s see what someone who has in times past been on government assistance for food, and medicine, and has worked in the public sector as a mental health professional, has to say about the “One Big Beautiful Bill”.  You ready for this?  Because you may not be expecting what I’m about to speak about it.

Okay, here we go…

The public food assistance is horribly abused.  A lot of people ...

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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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Last month I stumbled on an online archive that has tons of issues of various newspapers going back many, many years.  Including The Pendulum: the student newspaper of Elon University.  Or at least it used to be.  I’ve been scrounging around Elon’s website and it seems that The Pendulum has gone defunct: a casualty of instant news, social media and streaming video.  I hate to see that happen to any newspaper, because there is a priceless value to be had on printed information chronicling a place and its people.  It is also a magnificent snapshot of the thoughts and ideas and values of those people.  I looked and I looked, but I didn’t see any opinion/editorial writing recently on Elon’s servers.  Having those gone is an immeasurable loss.

Well anyway, I previously found the first op-ed piece I wrote for The Pendulum, about abortion.  I hadn’t gone ...

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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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 Here it is if you’ve forgotten: my most serious prediction ever…

 

Make a note of this.  January the Sixth, Two Thousand and Twenty-One.  Just before 1 p.m. EST.

If I’m wrong about this I’ll eat my fedora.  No really, I will.

Here it is:

I
do declare that four years from today, the United States will be in the
WORST condition it has been in, in at least the past fifty years.

Hold me to this.  Do it.

I am dead-#@%$ serious.
 
 
 That was ten months ago.  Much less than the forty-eight I allocated to Biden.
Out of control inflation.  Soaring gas prices.  Less food.  Energy costs set to skyrocket.  A military more dedicated to being “woke” than defense readiness.  Americans still stranded in Afghanistan.  Supply chains strangled because of over-burdening regulation on truckers.  Vaccine mandates.  No effective counter to a China becoming more belligerent by
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A few weeks ago on American Thinker, I wrote an article about how the Democrat Party is tearing itself apart.  And in all sincerity that’s unfortunate, because I do believe there are good people within that organization (just as there would be in most political parties in America).  However the rising tide of bitterness, rancor, hatred and even suggestions of violence from many attached to the Democrat Party are destroying that party.  So much so that in the article I remarked that the Democrat Party as we have come to know it at the national level will not exist by the 2020 elections and and it may only barely survive past this coming Thanksgiving.

Time will soon tell how accurate that assessment is.  However at the time it was written I had not looked much at the #WalkAway movement.  And now that I have, I am compelled to revise my ...

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Okay so truth be told, I lied about the free toy.  Maybe I was driven to madness by the bowl of Lucky Charms that I am currently enjoying.  Along with the orange juice and banana, everything that a growing boy… errrr, grown man(??) needs.  Anyhoo…

I am very grateful and honored that American Thinker, a commentary site that I have long admired and respected, has published the third article that I have written and submitted for their consideration.  “The Inthinkables” (I looked for that word on Google and couldn’t find it already, honest) is about how too much of our society has yielded over its capacity for rational and critical thought and in its place has chosen an almost visceral and hair-trigger instinct toward reacting on the basis of “feelings” unfounded in logic and knowledge.

In short: too many aren’t using the minds they were born with.  The ...

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