Author: CBD

Well, this will be short and decidedly not sweet. Perhaps the single best thing about President Donald Trump is his total and complete rejection of the deeply offensive concept that America is responsible for the security and economic success of the entire world. Post World War II American politicians drifted from the undeniable success of…

Nature Magazine used to be one of the titans of science journals. If you got your paper into Nature, it was a point of considerable pride and professional achievement. Whether that was warranted is a point of much debate…but it is undeniable that anything published in Nature will be read and cited widely. Which is…

The inevitable result of the leftist “Long March Through The Institutions” has been the destruction of traditional education, replaced with a putrid soup of half-baked education theories, all buttressed by virulent indoctrination in every progressive ideal. Communitarianism, pacifism, rejection of traditional sex roles, rejection of religion, elevating the environment over humanity, and on and on….

[Graphic courtesy of “Dr_No”] The descent of American culture from a moderately religious, moderately moral nation, to its current depths was shockingly fast. Our moral compass is pulled in every direction, providing zero guidance. We have lost respect for the sanctity of human life, and that can be laid squarely on the fanatical love of…

24 years ago our relaxed post-cold-war, end-of-history world changed. But did it? Or was it that our perspective had become so relaxed that we lost sight of the reality of the human condition, and the even more brutal reality that there were, are, and always will be forces aligned against the best and highest expression…

Israel is going to be vilified no matter what. The world, but in particular the hard left and Europe (but I repeat myself), will never forgive the Jews for not being totally destroyed by the Holocaust, and then having the temerity to rebuild their ancestral nation! How dare they! And then go and protect themselves…

We used to be taught that communism/socialism and our constitutional republic were incompatible. Individual freedom vs. top-down control, market economies vs. command economies, and of course the big one…the inexorable slide into totalitarian excess, the least of which is a surveillance state devoid of privacy and liberty. The worst? Genocide! And lots of it! And…

Amateur athletics has been a joke for a very long time. The Olympics, once an important cultural and athletic event, has morphed into a marketing miasma filled with professional athletes in a dizzying variety of sports and pseudo-sports. They began to allow professionals in the 1980s, and every four years the Olympics has become less…

“Palestine” as an issue for the Muslim world was created in 1964 by Yassir Arafat and the KGB. The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity… Only for political and tactical reasons do we…

There’s a reason it’s called a “free” market. People cooperate…freely. Their industry grows economies, which gives us more wealth, thus free time. Specialization takes advantage of our infinite variety of skills, which maximizes the talents of everyone. And all of this drives innovation, which drives more wealth generation! It’s a marvelous system, and can only…