Month: January 2021

Disavowing is the disgrace

Just as Charlottesville is eternally imprinted into the American psyche as “the deadly white-supremacist rally,” this week’s pro-Trump, anti-elite protest in Washington is successfully being tarnished as “mob violence” and “a siege.” The pearl-clutching is pretty epic, even for a postmodern people. “Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol” and “rioters breached security,” go the contrived commentaries …

MAGA patriots: The best of people in the worst of times

Where was the constitutional duty to act forcefully when BLM and Antifa goons romped and rampaged across the country? None was evident. By Ilana MercerJanuary 8, 2021 Why repeat hackneyed phrases about annus horribilis 2020?  Recall the opening paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities, a classic by Charles Dickens. Interspersed in that epical introduction are countervailing, sweetness-and-light words. Excise these—and …

The American pandemic

By Daniel B. Rundquist By now everyone knows there is a pandemic sweeping across the American landscape. It started rather quietly and at first went nearly unnoticed by most of us. This pandemic soon accelerated and quickly caught the attention of the global media, our federal and state level politicians, and by our local officials. …