Momentous times sometimes turn good people into great ones. The man who might have been simply a good husband or father, caught in the right circumstances becomes an Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill. The woman who may have been simply a good...
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A Lamb Between Two Wolves
In a move reminiscent of Minority Report the pre-cogs at the FCC this week took measures to stop crimes that have not yet happened by proclaiming the Internet to be a public utility, and as such, appropriately regulated by...
The New Inquisition
"...when God is invisible behind the world, the contents of the world will become new gods; when the symbols of transcendent religiosity are banned, new symbols develop from the inner-worldly language of science to take their place. Like...
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
One of the benefits of living in the great Northeast is that you occasionally get a "snow day", when work is cancelled and you get an extra holiday. In an area of the country where we are highly driven and...
The View From My High Horse
"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ, In our home country, slavery and Jim...
The Sky Is Falling
Amidst the cacophony of literature and entertainment we provide for our children in this modern age, we hopefully have not abandoned the pearls of wisdom found in the traditional tales that we ourselves were schooled in. In filling their little...
Firestarter
There is little we find more abhorrent than when our heroes turn out to be villains. We are rightly abhorred by stories of long-suffering mothers who were discovered to be intentionally poisoning their children, teachers who molest their students, health-care...
In Our Image
Since God has done us the honor of creating us in His own image, we seem to feel that it is only fair that we recreate Him in ours. One might imagine that a reflection of a reflection should result in...
Darker Days
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man...