Millions of people have already watched the viral video “With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations” since it came online last November. But dissemination has been mostly grassroots, via email and word-of-mouth. In summary, the migrant crisis…
You’ll never find grassroots scrappers like 78-year-old John McGraw in their midst, but entrenched Democrats and Republicans alike support veterans in their own fashion. Being against all wars is the surest way of reducing battlefield casualties. No wars, no one gets hurt. …
The status quo always projects a media image of peace and solidarity for candidates they like. Good enough for most people who want to be left to their workaday routines. So orderliness and polite campaign discourse is a virtue. This…
by Dean O. Muehlberg The propensity of the modern leftist democrat to lie while putting a period after their declamations has bothered me for awhile. Sure, all politicians lie to some extent, but in the past they have…
We can almost still hear President Ronald Reagan yell “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall” in 1987. It is obvious to us that both men were proponents of the freedom and openness of glasnost—as well as the economic restructuring of…
Some logic-minded Americans might have wondered why ISIS didn’t first try to work its way up the civic pyramid by establishing a grassroots base to win local elections, perhaps starting with volunteers on local boards, including charities. Those already in…
Faculty at schools and colleges only work nine months a year for their base salary. It’s a part-time job in this sense, so comparisons to year-long, full-time positions tend to be misleading. Teachers and professors can all work during the…
Moral wisdom comes from successful families, but won the hard way, passed from generation to generation. In his book The Last Farmer: An American Memoir, Howard Kohn revisits his boyhood Midwestern farm family after years away in big Northeastern…
Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie’s movie Unbroken is debuting in Japan this week, more than a year after it opened in the US. Both then and now, many in Japan are resentful of the one-sided portrayal of their country’s military during…
Going to college is a surreal time for most young people, an extension of adolescence in advance of adulthood. Away from home for the first time, students enter an artificial world where the only authoritative restraints are faculty members, who…