Politics

Tariffs, Hollywood, and Three Lies We’ve Come to Accept 2
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 8, 2025
President Donald Trump unleashed another unorthodox idea the other day by floating the concept of tariffs on movies not made in America. Those in the movie industry “are downright apoplectic,” CNN reported, concerned that such an initiative will tank their business. I’m not sure what to make of this idea yet, as I can see
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Making Dreams Come True Is More Than Wishing Upon a Star 7
- Culture, Education, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 6, 2025
Years ago, a newlywed couple spent a couple nights at the bed-and-breakfast my wife and I operated. Talking with us in the kitchen one afternoon, the husband declared that he intended to be a millionaire by the time he was 30. He was then working in some sort of direct sales outfit in which promotion
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There’s More to Life Than Politics 5
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 5, 2025
“Man,” philosopher Aristotle declared long ago, “is a political animal.” Perhaps too political. A dozen years ago, when Sonny Bunch was the managing editor of “The Washington Free Beacon,” he expressed his frustration with people who are so consumed by politics that they have become incapable of separating it from other aspects of their lives,
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Learning How to Avoid the Mental Illness of Politics 15
- Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 2, 2025
Dr. Thomas Insel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002-2015. In December 2023 he noted that since the Covid pandemic 38% more Americans were receiving some type of mental health care. “We are facing three distinct crises, which partially overlap,” Insel contends. The first is a
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It Takes a Village to Encourage Americans to Have Children 17
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Politics, Uncategorized
- April 30, 2025
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering offering $5,000 “baby bonuses” to first-time moms. That sum would barely cover an epidural in most American hospitals; still, monetary benefits like this may be a step in the right direction for correcting the birth dearth in this country. Raising children in an economy where both parents are often
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Teaching the ‘American Creed’ – not DEI – was the Original Goal for American Schools 24
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- April 24, 2025
Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, takes her teaching duties seriously it seems, even though she’s no longer in the classroom. Her expert teacher mentality reared itself in a recent interview with Fox News host Martha McCallum, making headlines when Weingarten referred to McCallum as “sweetheart” a couple times in a condescending
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