Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In the fight against evil, how does one choose whether martyrdom or living to fight another day is the more effective option? We went again to lovely Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. This time, we went to the Swamp walk and took a boat tour through the former rice fields, which
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America no longer constrains the powerful from indulging in their lust for control or their desire for perversion, putting us in great danger. I like listening to Andrew Klavan’s podcasts when I walk my dog. Instead of merely rehashing news stories, he offers a philosophical perspective informed by his journey
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By The Closet Conservative The movie world has done it again. All be it from South Korea, and not the United States. All the same lemmings that comprise the movie reviewing community have jumped on board the band wagon of having a slobbering love affair with the movie, Parasite.
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It’s common to hear truth spoken of as something personal — “your truth” or “my truth.” That degrades the notion of truth to the point of meaninglessness. Contrary to what might be implied in this post’s title, I am not going to be talking about Jesus (“Jesus saith unto him,
Continue reading“Death Wish” (2018) by The Closet Conservative Is this a movie that has Liberals squirming in their seats? Absolutely… A movie that is a Conservatives wet dream? Perhaps… A movie that will live in your minds as an all-time classic? Doubtful… A movie that will make you smile, laugh uncomfortably,
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Talking to college students brought home that modern philosophy is a nihilistic numbers game intended to support a given philosopher’s preferred goals. With colleges winding down for the year, young adults are returning to my community. This has yielded some interesting conversations, and given me a first person insight into
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With his usual acuity, Dennis Prager explains that true morality exists only if there is a God. Absent God, people just opine about what they like or dislike. The phrase “moral relativism” gets thrown around a lot. The Right things it’s bad; the Left thinks it’s good — indeed, that
Continue reading“You’re so judgmental, Mom,” my teen told me yesterday. The reason for this statement (and he totally missed the irony of his judging me for being too judgmental) was the distaste I expressed for Mark Zuckerberg. I didn’t defend myself against my teen’s charge. “You’re damn right I’m judgmental. Zuckerberg deserves
Continue readingOver the past few days, in connection with posts about Islam’s innately violent nature (which I see as being different from the fact that Europeans used violence in Christianity’s name), I’ve come up with a little mantra: Europeans, who initially were not that far from paganism, brought the sword to Christianity.
Continue readingDennis Prager has created a video touching upon something that I’ve believed to be true for a long time: It’s stealing to waste a sales person’s time if you know that you won’t end up buying from that store. If I don’t intend to buy from that store on that day,
Continue readingSince the day I started blogging, I’ve returned repeatedly to an issue I find fascinating: America’s retreat from a God-derived, externally driven moral system in favor of an alleged moral system that is, in fact, a peculiar amalgam of emotion (“if it feels good, do it”), arrogance (“I’m Ivy League educated,
Continue readingTwo weeks ago, I introduced you to Sol Giggleweed, a representative of DemProg passion in politics and society. I chanced to meet up with Sol today — or, more accurately, with a real human being whose views march in lockstep with Sol’s, but who doesn’t wish to have his name
Continue readingThe other night, I watched The Crash Reel, a documentary about the traumatic brain injury snowboarder Kevin Pearce received while practicing for the Olympics on a halfpipe with 22 foot walls. It’s an excellent documentary, which tracks Pearce from his carefree, careless youth; to his injury; to his challenging recovery
Continue readingI wrote a lovely post, right here, last night. Cheerfully hit the “publish” button and went to bed — only to wake up this morning to discover that the post not only didn’t get published, it vanished entirely. I’m not sure I can replicate it, but I’ll try. The point
Continue readingI could not agree more. It also ties in nicely with my post about legislatures and morality:
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