Parents, Graduates, and Faculty …. Good Evening! What a pleasure it is to finally have the opportunity to speak my mind about the monumental obstacles that await these young graduates. This once venerated Capital city of the Inland Empire has for the last few generations been a rough town to live in and even […]
Now that we can see through a glass more clearly, which of us can deny that the American Academy surrendered without a shot to its barbarous and intellectually unwashed, following a rough descent into slavish cultural Deconstruction? As such, the old guard’s aptitude for disinterested inquiry was seized and corrupted via a balkanized identity politics […]
In order to put into perspective the political pathology that is our current President of the United States, it is perhaps instructive to contrast how the previous Democratic Chief-of- State might have approached the current governmental impasse. While Bill Clinton was not above playing executive hardball; nevertheless, I am convinced that he would eventually have […]
For Mom: My mother, Carole Ann Fairman was born to Eugene and Gwen Field on May 15, 1937 in the Los Angeles area. Although her parents have long since passed, she is survived by her sole sibling, Eugene, who is 7 years her senior. She attended Garfield High School and married my father Fred […]
Can I share a secret with you? Being young isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. It wasn’t till I had reached the leeward side of 50 that I started figuring things out. Believe it or not, there is a joyous virtue in age if you are ready to throw down your gavel, […]
“While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.” Ann Coulter Some time back I caught sight of a photo of our “Philosopher-King-in-Training” holding in his effeminate hand a copy of Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World,” and took no little […]
The great Roman historian Livy informs us that during the times of the Third Punic War, Cato the Elder ended every session of the Roman Senate with the phrase, “Carthago Delenda Est:” Carthage must be destroyed. Having suffered bitterly while battling for the supremacy of the Mediterranean with the fiery North African city state, rumors […]
In the beginning there was a dream called America. And in that dream, our Founders, in the Enlightenment spirit that sought to breathe life into the sage wisdom of the ancients, intended to found a mixed regime. Envisioned as a republic, it consisted of a popularly elected House of Representatives (the “Low”) and a quasi-aristocratic […]
Fourteen centuries hence, in a cramped 12 x 5 foot cave known as Hira on a mountain called Jabar-al-Nour on the outskirts of Mecca, it is said that a young illiterate orphan prone to epileptic fits from his youth beheld an angel named Gabril hovering over his paralyzed body. It was here that the […]
What are we, as intelligent sentient beings, to say about the incineration of over fifteen thousand aborted children for the production of electrical power in a U.K. hospital? Similarly, how are we to come to terms with the knowledge that Oregon’s Covanta Marion waste-to-energy facility was also being utilized as a modern day Molech? […]
