uddenly all of America is homeschooling. I could never have imagined it. The whole homeschooling community now “looks like America.” What most people fail to understand, however, is that the homeschooling community always did. On a beautiful June morning when my one and only child graduated from high school, I was struck yet again by […]
On September 11, many of us paused to remember the lives lost and the heroes that rose to the occasion. Sometime around the first of September, I always send a package to Operation Gratitude to thank all those still in harm’s way, 18 years later. Others, like Representative Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.), want us to forget […]
The Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, is pushing his new book about social media, so in a recent column he links a piece by Salena Zito, decrying Twitter for its sabotage of “normal political debate.” The problem with Zito’s analysis is that at least since the 1960s, the venom and furor seen on Twitter is America’s “normal […]
Last weekend’s demented political theatrics have me enraged. I am livid this time not because leftists are calling for open borders or disarming law-abiding citizens. No, as has often happened over the past four years, I am furious more because of statements made by people who claim to be on my side. Sunday morning President […]
Strong, female characters are all the rage in Hollywood these days. In “The Force Awakens,” J.J. Abrams merely remade the 1977 “Star Wars” with a skinny girl playing Luke Skywalker. Of course, if you dare to dislike this new genre of movies you are sexist, because strong, female characters! There’s even a study “proving” those […]
Once again the country is spellbound by a series of fake hate crimes, while at the same time, refusing to hear the truth about real hatreds. To paraphrase Napoleon in Animal Farm, some types of hate are more equal than others. It makes me think of the time I was the victim of what today […]