Modern Era
In the decades after the Second World War, California achieved an iconic status. Hollywood productions portrayed the region as a virtual paradise, with glistening sandy beaches and perfect weather year round; construction and the aerospace industries were booming. Jobs were plentiful, and they paid an ample living wage. Public schools were excellent and they became … Read more
Gavin Newsom Means Well! Doesn’t He? Gavin Newsom means well (at least for himself). His rhetoric is all about victims who need his help, criminal cartel members and illegal immigrants hunted by ICE, struggling minimum wage workers, people with sexual habits or practices that differ from the average in society (while the straights won’t bother … Read more
The Birth of Naval Aviation In the 1700s and 1800s, well-trained western professional engineers, scientists and aviation enthusiasts knew that sustained, powered flight by heavier-than-air machines was possible. Birds are heavier (denser) than the air they fly in. However the complexity of all the problems that needed to be solved simultaneously thwarted the invention of … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On December 22nd, 2025, President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of the Navy, John C. Phelan, alongside Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced their intent to construct a new class of American-designed battleships that will be “the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed.” Peace through strength! Right? The shy, retiring and ever … Read more
The Pro-log – The Banking Panic of 1907: The Bank Panic of 1907 was a short-lived banking and financial crisis in New York City and along the US Eastern seaboard. It occurred during the rising tide of progressivism, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The banking panic resulted from the collapse of highly-leveraged speculative … Read more
In 1916 Vladimir Lenin wrote his book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. In that book he asserts that successful and competitive capitalist enterprises work hard to become monopolies in their market areas. They each want to be the last man standing in their sector of the market. Of course, Lenin wrote that book as … Read more
In ancient Israel the sabbatical year (ever 7th year) was not only a year of allowing fields to be left fallow, it was also a year of debt forgiveness(Deuteronomy 15:1-2). In China the ancient tradition of repaying debts before the Chinese New Year stems from the belief that starting the new year free of financial … Read more
Virtue Signaling is Far More Common than Virtuous Behavior Is Our most core and basic nature is self-interest. This is the nature we are all born with. Every baby cries to be fed or changed. One of the first words we all learn as infants is “MINE!” On the other hand, sharing is an unnatural, … Read more
The US taxpayer ultimately has to pay the bill incurred by bad government. Main Street has to pay the bills left behind on Pennsylvania Avenue. The ancient Greek legend of Sisyphus is on one level an allegory of the sad slavery of the American taxpayer. Deficit spending and massive corruption are the two ingredients found … Read more
Walter Bagehot was a mid-Victorian era journalist in Britain who married the eldest daughter of James Wilson, the founder of The Economist magazine. When Mr. Wilson died in 1860, Walter became the editor in chief of The Economist. Over the next 17 years that he held that position, he transformed the journal into one of … Read more
A Christian worldview is a “God’s eye” view of our world. Creation is both visible (the physical world) and invisible (the metaphysical, “spiritual” world). Ancient Christianity understands that the visible and invisible worlds are coexistent, transcendent and indistinguishable.
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