Opinion

The tragedy of slavery hangs over the American story like an overcast sky.  It’s unimaginable now that a whole class of people were once denied personhood and stripped of foundational human rights.  But then again, maybe not.  There is another whole class of people who are denied personhood and stripped of more than foundational human […]

There’s an irony in America’s history over taxation.  Laurence J. Peter wrote:  “America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.”  The Sons of Liberty resisted the Stamp Act in 1765 with the protest, “No taxation without representation!”  Yet many taxpayers around April 15th grumble, “Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either.” […]

Too Cold For Angels to Fly? The burning cold of Arctic air has enveloped America with shivering blasts of howling winds.  An early winter has blanketed much of the US.  It’s been so cold that skiers have gone to the slopes only to sit by a fire and look at the snow rather than risk […]

The politically correct interpretation of the West has gained ascendancy and in its hegemony, it has decreed that the indigenous peoples of the “new world” be given their due respect at the expense of the great discoverer.  

Underneath the raw power of manual labor that moves mountains, builds bridges, loads trucks and trains, constructs immense machines and tears down obstacles—the things that facilitate our American way of life—is a belief that work itself is not inherently evil, but a blessing.