A French Novel — Submission — How the West Will Decline “Not With a Bang But a Whimper”
Dystopian novels will always have a market for the simple reason that an appreciable number of...
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Author: Carl C. Curtis
Trumpomania: Can This Be Love?
After eight years of Obama, Americans ought to have had it with false messiahs: corrupt politicians who dazzle the electorate with their irresistible charisma. But a new star has risen whose past and principles are mere irrelevant details — Trump!
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Prayer: A Power the World Does Not Know to Combat Terrorism
My priest, a godly man, had to admit that many times even he did not have that much daily time for prayer.
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All I Want for Christmas: Only 3 Books, 3CDs, and 4 DVDs
But what I want for Christmas reminds me of what I discovered when I was around eleven years old and gave to my best friend a model of HMS Dorchester, the ship that finished off the Bismarck with a few well-aimed torpedoes. On Christmas day, when I opened up his present for me, I found he had given me the same thing.
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Paris and the Peril of the West: “Like déjà vu all over again.”
Amid the new hashtags and declarations of solidarity on Facebook, actor Rob Lowe Tweeted the truth: “Oh, NOW France closes its borders.” Yahoo’s “The Wrap” would have none of it. “Rob Lowe Ripped for Paris Attack Tweets,” the headline shrieked. Rob must mind his manners.
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Peter Jackson: The Worst Director Ever?
Sin number 1: Jackson doesn’t know an opportunity when he sees one.
Sin number 2: Jackson possesses no sense of moderation.
The Third Republican Debate: Let the Winnowing Begin
And then there was Jeb. One would have to be a hermit to be ignorant of the kind of disastrous week he had.
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Cecile Richards’ Semantic Gambit Before Congress
But, so far as I can determine, no evidence for real doctoring of Nucatola’s words or their context—or, for that matter the words of other Planned Parenthood functionaries in the CMP’s other videos—has been produced.
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Bernie Does Liberty: Sanders Comes to Falwell-land
Even for someone who has not carefully followed Bernie’s tenure in office, now going on ten years in the senate preceded by sixteen years in the house, it’s not hard to figure out what his political passions are: abortion, health care, LGBT rights, minimum wage, racism, and so on.
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The Loss of Our Republic Began With this Bank
Cost identifies the major phases of corruption: the national banks, the rise of political parties and bosses, Gilded Age capitalist cronyism, and Progressive bureaucratic sprawl.
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