Category: Opinion
High Pulp Orange Juice, the Clarity of Vision & the Worth of Every Human Life
This is a story about orange juice. Sorta. Kinda. It’s more a story about maintaining vision for what matters most in this life and the...
Read MoreYou Can Close a School – But You Can’t Stop Its Influence
The final bell of its 96-year run will toll by this Wednesday’s end inside St. Christopher’s School in Baldwin, Long Island – joining other Catholic...
Read MoreFather’s Day as a Divorced Dad
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, I’m one of over nine million divorced fathers in the United States. My situation is not one that I...
Read MoreFamily Memories & Life Lessons at Memorial Day
Heading into this Memorial Day weekend of 2021, I’m thinking of the Americans who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We were...
Read MoreThe Surprising Story of a Beloved Easter Hymn
Much like the carols of Christmas, music and Easter are synonymous with one another. From Handel’s “Messiah” to Bach’s “St. John’s Passion,” the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection is punctuated in...
Read MoreAsh Wednesday: “Remember that You Are Dust, and to Dust You Shall Return.”
Originally posted February 2020 I remember the jolt that resonated through my mind and body at an Ash Wednesday service I attended many years ago....
Read MoreThe Tortured, Tragic, Curious and Lost Life of Pornographer Larry Flynt
The death earlier this week of the notorious pornographer Larry Flynt is likely of little interest to most social conservatives who rightly eschew his horrific...
Read MoreDon’t Fence Us Out
In 1961, to keep East Germans who were under communist rule from escaping to the West, the East German government constructed a wall, complete with...
Read MoreCardi B and the Year the World Got Sick
When I say the world got sick, I’m not referring to the coronavirus. I’m talking about the complete and utter moral failure and lack of...
Read MoreRush Limbaugh’s Resilience Reflects the Strong, Enduring Spirit of America
Rush Limbaugh may be dying – but he’s living each day with the tenacity and courage of a man on a mission without end. Nearly...
Read MoreA Reflection on Attending the 2005 Inauguration
The first time I visited Washington D.C. was as part of a special trip to the nation’s capital for the second inauguration of President George...
Read MoreWashington’s Magical Thinking
As a young boy, I asked my parents to order a box of magic tricks that I read about in a magazine. Weeks later, my...
Read MoreOur Politics Is Cracking Under the Weight of a Thinning Civil Society
A little more than a week after the storming of the Capitol, five Americans have died, the House of Representatives has impeached the President for...
Read MoreWhat if What We Saw Yesterday at the Capitol Is Us?
In the introduction to his book The Content Trap, author Bharat Anand asks readers to consider what caused The Yellowstone Fires of 1988, which lasted for months and...
Read More21 Old Books That Will Help You Make 2021 a Terrific New Year
Tens of millions of Americans will be making New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, exercise more and better manage their finances. These are all very...
Read MoreChristmas Reminds Us to ‘Rejoice,’ Even in 2020
For everyone who lived through 2020, chances are this year did not turn out like you had hoped. Personally, heading into the new year on...
Read MoreThe First Christmas Greeting: He Knew Him in His Mother’s Womb
Credit: Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Visitation, 1910 If quizzed “Who was the first person to welcome Jesus and announce His Lordship?” how would you answer?...
Read MoreDespite the Challenges, Why My Family Still Has Hope Around Christmas
For my family, bad things always seem to happen between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. It started in the 1990s with a car trip from San...
Read MoreDon’t Just Blame Joe Biden for Troublesome Appointments – Also Blame Pro-life Never Trumpers who Voted for Him
It’s a tried but true adage: elections have consequences, and for social conservatives, this has never been more evident than with the looming prospect of...
Read MoreAN INAUGURATION TO REMEMBER
As our nation’s ruling class makes its way, harum-scarum, towards a January 6 codification vote of the Electoral College, another group of people are working...
Read MoreHow the Heimlich Maneuver Helped Bring Down the Berlin Wall
This is a true story about how seemingly little things can sometimes, someway, somehow, someday – have big consequences. It involves a peanut, a future...
Read MoreRemembering and Giving Thanks for Bill Buckley
My dear friend the late William F. Buckley, Jr. would have turned 95 years old on 24 November. In one sense, he was forever young,...
Read MoreSorry, But Not all Women are Worth Applauding
Since the election on November 3rd, I’ve seen numerous posts from many women stating that “for once” or “finally” they’re proud to be Americans because...
Read MoreBush v. Gore Recount Veteran Reflects on 2020 Presidential Election
As a veteran of the Bush/Gore presidential election recount in 2000, where I spent 32 days in nine cities across Florida, the still-unresolved 2020 presidential...
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