One of the more disturbing scenes of George Orwell's nightmarish 1984 comes in a jail cell. A man has been thrown in the jail to await trial for a thought crime he did not commit. He is innocent and thoroughly loyal to the government and its established orthodoxy in all things. Yet when a fellow inmate asks him if he is guilty, he proclaims that of ( Read more... )

Historically, America was always about 80-90 per cent white and about 10-20 per cent black. About the time the Civil Rights movement won its great victories in the mid twentieth century, offering up the possibility that long seeded racial division might finally reach a proper resolution, a very, very liberal immigration policy changed everything. ( Read more... )

Every February I wait for someone discussing Black History Month to say something about George Washington Carver and it almost never happens. When someone does talk about him, it's to briefly mention peanuts or peanut butter. What everyone misses out on is that Carver single handedly invented modern industrial engineering using a few plain tables, ( Read more... )

Between the liberals blaming Rick Snyder for Flint's debacle and the kind hearted people of the world sending cases of bottled water, it occurs to me that there is a simple solution to the crisis in Flint ( Read more... )

Dear God ( Read more... )

Just give me a reason and I'll let you in ( Read more... )

Alexander Pushkin developed quite a scheme,
Beautifully written in iambic tetrameter.
And within the work itself, study Tatiana's dream.
Behold therein the mind admired by Charles, Leo and Fyodor.
Consider how the stanzas go on for fourteen lines.
Contained within, a rhyme scheme, both complex and sublime.
Devote yourself, dear reader, to Onegin's ( Read more... )

THE BALLAD OF THE LATE NIGHT PICK UP ARTISTS ( Read more... )

We like to believe we are a civilized nation. We are wrong. Trayvon Martin's death at the hands of George Zimmerman is proof of that. In a civilized nation, that death would not have occured. But not for the reasons you might think ( Read more... )

It's time to play the trivia game that's sweeping the nation...Obama, Marinelli or A Bad Chef ( Read more... )