Dedicated to editorials and articles from an authors personal perspective.
Nick Givas CNN commentator John Avlon said the Democratic Party is being take over by the “occupy generation” and compared it to the Tea Party surge of 2010, on “New Day” Wednesday. A panel discussed the upset win by socialist House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, who ran on a platform of abolishing Immigration…
Nick Givas Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida said he plans to have Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California censured for her comments about Trump administration officials and will ask for her resignation. “I think the hard left in this country is just totally off the rails and Maxine Waters is really the pied piper…
While browsing through a recently discovered bookstore, I stumbled across a book titled, Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right by Ken Stern. Finding the title intriguing, I opened the book and began reading about his experience breaking out of the political “bubble” and experiencing life on…
The graveyard of failed socialist states is vast. In recent decades, examples are replete: from the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the horrors in North Korea, to the recent nightmare in Venezuela, the evidence looms large and tragic. Yet among its faithful, there is a persistent belief that “real” socialism does work. (G. A….
In May 2017 LifeWay Research released an interesting survey. It found that 80 percent of Americans were concerned “about declining moral behavior in our nation.” As the survey went on to report, such concern was not unfounded. While 63 percent of the 65+ crowd agreed that right and wrong was objective, or does not change,…
Follow on Facebook or Twitter A new scandal has broken about 1,500 unaccompanied children who have gone missing in the immigration system. Nobody knows where they are, and the problem is nobody actually cares; least of all the people who pretend to. How did we get to this point? If you were following the media…
In elementary school, students are taught various types of figurative language—idioms, metaphors, and hyperboles. Most students quickly learn that words must be taken in context to properly understand their intended meaning. We also learn that many words and phrases have more than one meaning. “Stand up and be counted.” Is a person in a wheelchair…
The last week was a great reminder that attacks on freedom come from the right just as much as they do from the left. The particular issue at hand is that of the National Football League, which has chosen to fine, or even ban, teams whose players peacefully protest by kneeling during the national anthem….
Follow on Facebook or Twitter A blistering piece was recently published by Nellie Bowles in the New York Times entitled Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy. The controversy of the article has been framed around Jordan Peterson‘s use of the term Enforced Monogamy. From the article: “He was angry at God because women were rejecting…
It’s not uncommon that certain ideals will have a political bias attached to them. The immigration debate, for instance, has long taken a left-vs-right structure, as has the gun debate. You can usually make an educated guess at someone’s political leanings based on the positions they take on certain issues. But today, many seem…