A quote: “Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” C. S….
A Social Poison is one of the essays included in Thomas Sowell’s excellent Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Whether you believe in a “Redneck culture” or that…
A quote: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to…
This year, 2019, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the genocide in the African nation of Rwanda. Approximately one million (1,000,000) human beings died. The American media coverage…
A quote: “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.” ~~ Sophocles
Thomas Sowell has never been one to shy away from telling the hard truths. An economist, he sees the potential pitfalls of the path our country finds…
A quote: “Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.” ― Emily Dickinson
Nationalism has become a dirty word in world politics in general and in the United States in particular. Former aide to Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoram Hazony has written…
A quote: “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” ― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
A quote: “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.” Exodus 20:12
A quote: “No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.” ~~ James Joyce
A quote for Friday: “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” Ecclesiastes 12:7
This week, our featured book is “The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg”. The subhead is “American Icon”. There is also a subhead of “The Whole (T)Ruth”. Oy vey….
A quote: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and…
I know, I know, not everyone likes baseball. But The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America is so much than balls and strikes, home…
A quote: “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then —…
The subject of the book from the VG Bookshelf this week is literacy. I am not reviewing the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read”. I am issuing a…
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