“Gutter Trash” is a term I heard all my life. It signified a person, most often a man (since women had their own names that you …
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The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941
This is 1941, when Hollywood apparently still approved of God. “The Devil and Daniel Webster” is a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benet in 1936 for …
The Satan Chronciles; An Invitation
Over at Unwashed Philosophy (a creation of “Haystack”, one of the early behind-the-curtain tech-guys at RedState and now living a contemplative monk’s existence in an aerie …
Teaching History to C-Students, not just A-Students; a Note to Conservatives
Yesterday I saw a tweet by Mark Levin, plugging an August 19, 2019 article at The Federalist by Josh Lawson, “8 Back-to-School Books to Protect Students …
American Theology and “The Patriot’s History of the United States”
There is an American theology and has always has been. And some very fine historians have chronicled it. Samuel Eliot Morison covered the years of …
By an Angel’s Kiss, MSG (Ret) Mark Allen, 46, Army
Kissed by an Angel, Where Violins are the Angels’ Voices, and the Cello Sings Harmony MSG Mark Allen, 46, of Loganville, GA, died in …
The Liberating Joy of Lying with a Clear Conscience
Remember the old adage about removing God as the final judge for your actions? American corporations went to hell in a hand basket when they kicked …
In Celebration of the Neocons
In 2004, awaiting a vote in the newly liberated Iraq, their first democratic vote ever, I wrote my first published essay, “Prospects for Democracy in the …
Driving Corruption from the Public Square
H/T to my friend @Specialist, who I still affectionately refer to as Beasley Beasemill, from our RedState days. This art will become our new trademark photo …
Will Either Party Survive after 2020?
Long before Donald Trump emerged, in 2013 I asked if the original Republican brand would survive where the GOP seemed to be going. That question …
