This piece is not designed to convince you. It is simply here to explain myself and those who agree with me (probably more people than you think you know). If anyone, friend, acquaintance or stranger, would like to challenge any of these points or try to refute me, I welcome that but I probably won’t… Read More Why I Am Pro Life

Dr. Hanson’s article, “America’s First Third-World State” is over at National Review hitting the rounds. Though Hanson is mainly a military historian (quite a good one, I enjoyed Ripples of Battle & A War Like No Other), he is popularly known for writing on the failures of governance in California. His piece is popular not only because of… Read More Is California a Third World Country?

I don’t feel anyone is capable of doing an adequate job summing up the immense loss. While blessedly the damage was significantly less than previously thought, it is still a civilizational scar. It is hard to imagine another symbol generating this much grief across the world. Yet before it is a symbol of French architecture,… Read More What Should Notre Dame Mean To Us?

The 24-hour news cycle rarely gets dominated by anything of substance but the issue of family separation at the border has taken hold lately. Regrettably, many pieces are hastily written to serve whatever narrative the writer has chosen. In this void, there is misinformation on each side, which is quickly used to justify ignoring the… Read More Family Separation: Unnecessary & Unjust?

New piece up over at The Hipster Conservative. A modest proposal: let the lads smoke their cigs. I would like to venture a modest, if only slightly ironic, defense of tobacco use. I think a reasonable vindication can be made on three grounds (note to Big Tobacco: we have yet to receive your payoff. Please deliver… Read More On Blasting Cigs

Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen. Yale University Press, 2016. 198 pages. After Rod Dreher’s review in The American Conservative, I was intrigued enough to buy Dr. Deneen’s book and it was well worth the purchase. It definitely helps cement my slide from quasi-libertarianism to full-blown Toryism. It definitely strikes the correct tone though I… Read More My Review of “Why Liberalism Failed”

    (Photo: David McNew/Reuters)  A big concern with immigration is the political impact of the potential cultural change. Many conservatives posit that immigrants from non-Anglophone countries inherently do not culturally adapt to the center-right political culture in the US and therefore conservatives are behooved to limit immigration in order to retain the unique, and… Read More Immigration & California

Originally posted on The Reformed Layman:
Now that it has become clear that the Republican candidate will be Donald Trump and that the Democrat candidate will be Hillary Clinton, the accusations have already begun against all who have said they will not vote for either candidate.  “A vote for a third party or refraining from…