Culture & Art
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Daylight: How a Clueless Airhead, a Punchline, Super Bass and I Escaped Plato’s Cave
If nothing else, I find it encouraging. I wholly understand that it is improper (and borderline criminal) to put much…
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White House: The Cool, the Crass, the Collapse
My last column took Barack Obama to task for his palpable, pop-celebrity spin on presidenting. Apparently, he prizes talk show…
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When Girls Stop Telling Guys No
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 36.9 percent of 14-year-olds have had sex – more than one out of…
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HEY, SNOOP DOGG: Got Your List Right Here, Yo
Recently, the “street-wise” philosopher, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. decided to endorse Barrack Obama for re-election. Better known as Snoop Dogg,…
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An Open Letter to My Liberal Friends
Dear Friends on the Left: I took a break from politics this weekend. Between a busy marching band weekend with…
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Occupy Sesame Street
If the Occupy crowd is really against corporations and corporate greed then they should look no further than Sesame Workshop,…
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A Bad Call and a Reminder of our Failures
NFL fans love the game for several reasons. We love watching excellence developed by years of hard work. Watching those athletes perform…
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Christians Pushing Back — And Results are Encouraging
For a long time the elite culture’s hostility toward Christian expression has been in the news. Nice to hear some…
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Mr. Cool Drags Down the Presidency, Too
Well, at least he didn’t “slow-jam” this time. No, President Barack Obama demeaned himself and, more significantly, his office with…
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Surviving the Humanist Hurricane
The upcoming elections aren’t about Republican vs. Democrat; conservative vs. liberal; Romney vs. Obama. Not entirely, at least. They’re much…
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We Are at War
We are at war. Let’s stop kidding ourselves. Let’s end this stupid talk about making nice with Premier Barack and…
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Yet Another Shooting… A Sign of What?
August 27th was the first day of school across most of the state of Maryland. After sending my own daughter…
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America, Is that a Fat Lady You Hear Singing?
The fat lady has sung my friends. And no, I’m not talking about the new healthier Christina Aguilera on The…
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Defeating the Islamo-“Progressive” Axis
There’s evidently a fine line between a “hate crime” and a BLT. The Reuters headline screamed: “Bacon found at NY…
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Cowardice: Infecting Our Churches and Our Culture, pt. 2
It was a cold night in Minneapolis, MN in 1997 while I was attending Bible College at North Central University.…
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Sean Penn: Communist Extraordinaire
Who hasn’t seen at least one Sean Penn movie that they liked? Sean Penn has had a fascination with film…
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Bilbo’s War
Real people seldom face what Frodo Baggins did in Tolkien’s trilogy. For most, the world does not depend on our…
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How Do You Spell Guts? E-W-J-A-C-K-S-O-N
It’s good to see African-American church leaders waking up to Barack Obama’s mendacity and fecklessness. As I have said many…
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Flag Etiquette? Yeah, it Matters.
Proper treatment of the American flag? That topic seems so, well, old-fashioned in our trendy, jaded age. One of my…
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Country Mice Go to Washington DC — Random Observations from Visiting the Nation’s Capital
As I sit here, Reagan National Airport reflecting on the first trip for the wife and kids to DC, some…
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Detroit Death City – Monument to the Left
Indignity of indignities! – just when Motor City denizens assumed their situation couldn’t worsen: not only has Detroit become the…
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Be Real: Another Freakin’ Chick-fil-A Story
Well, a week or two has passed since the Chick-fil-A appreciation day so it’s time for yet another opinion about…
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Is God So Busy He Needs Me to Judge Others For Him?
Christ never taught us to hate others. Lucifer is in hell because of vanity. Should we, as Conservatives and Christians,…
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Field of Obama’s Dreams?
Writer/actor Michael Moriarty offers a few thoughts on his own sports-themed movie experiences and the baseball film Field of Dreams…
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Anti-hunting Extremists Focus Their Hate on Olympic Shooter Corey Cogdell
By Mike Piccione Corey Cogdell is a 26 year old Olympic trap shooter who recently represented the United States in…
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Two Kinds of Heroes
Raising kids — especially sons — has made me pay attention to heroes. Of course, heroes can — and should…
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Fifty Shades of Decay
According to his own blogpost, English innkeeper Jonathan Denby recently decided to replace the Gideon Bibles in the rooms of…
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“Calling the ‘copth’!” — Welcome To Metrosexual World!
The other night my girlfriend’s and my cab stopped at a crosswalk for two 20-something men. Up next to us…
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Ice-T’s “Rush” to Racial Judgment
The other day I heard that popular rapper and actor Ice-T came out in support of the second amendment. I…
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H’Woods’ Puzzling Reaction to Kristin’s “Stepping Out”
Hollywood and its acolytes clutched their respective bosoms and gasped at the news that Twilight and Snow White and the…
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A “Shep-Slap” for Chick-fil-A?
People who insist Fox News ONLY presents the “conservative” viewpoint have always been wrong – Bill O’Reilly, a self-confessed “traditionalist”…
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England’s Leni Riefenstahl: Danny Boyle
In British film director Danny Boyle, producer and mastermind behind this year’s Summer Olympics opening ceremony, Michael Moriarity thinks he…
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French Revolution, Occupy Wall Street and … Batman?
Over the weekend, I finally got around to viewing The Dark Knight Rises. If I’m being honest, for me it…
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Aurora Prompts Age Old Question: Why, God??
The obscene violence visited upon a theater-full of moviegoers in Aurora, CO mere days ago prompts, no surprise, a question…
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
This year saw the passing of The Andy Griffith Show actors George Lindsey and, then, Andry Griffith himself. Not surprisingly,there…
