God, Israel, Iran, Russia: The Ezekiel 38 War
As I sit down to write this column, it is 8:30 a.m. in the Eastern United States, 3:30 p.m. in
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Commentary
A Geopolitical Conundrum: Only Leverage Works When All Have It
I used to want nothing more than the Iranian government to collapse. After the events of last week, I’ve changed my mind. Governments are bigger than me or anyone else. I have never met anyone from Iran, and I had no chance to speak to an Iranian government official. If I did, the CIA would probably be following me around. It turns out that, as Americans, we are not free.
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Reasonable Optimism on Iran – Sleep Well
President Trump was frustrated by the military actions of Iran and Israel following his announcement of a ceasefire among Iran,
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To be African American on July 4th
My family has a secret. I discovered it last month during my Aunt Dot’s 80th birthday party when one of her grandchildren asked her why she never mentions her own grandparents. She never met them, was her answer. She knew one great-grandmother on her mother’s side, a former slave, who came to live with them briefly when she was five, but that was it. My aunt has six siblings, including my mother. To the best of my recollection, I can never remember any of them ever mentioning their grandparents.
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An Interesting Summer Ahead
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
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Patterson Park No Kings Rally: Taking Back the America We Used to Know
As he moved through the big, peaceful gathering Saturday afternoon at one of this nation’s many “No Kings” rallies vilifying President Donald Trump, the guy handing out free American flags stumbled to find a place to maneuver, so crowded was this rolling Patterson Park hillside.
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The Perfect Church
The perfect church; does it exist? Can a church be without flaws? As the saying goes, “Beauty is in the
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Little Children, Young Men, & Fathers
When a person learns math, we all start out counting: one, two, three, four, and so on. Not long after
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Mental Illness: Hyperliberalism Run Amuck with Skeptics No Longer in Sight
Colleagues and I have written for decades on the widespread acceptance of the perspectives of psychiatry and psychology and how such starting points have provided the left in our country excuses for bad and illegal behavior.
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How Trump’s manufacturing strategy proves he doesn’t care about workers
Many of the white people who voted for Donald Trump are angry for the same reason Black people have been angry all these years—economic inequality. Angry white men today may not know what it feels like to experience racism, but they certainly know what it feels like to be excluded from the “American Dream.”
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