Publicity-driven Elections

“The top priority of an elected official is usually to get re-elected, and that requires a steady stream of favorable publicity to keep the officials’s name before the public in a good light. The opening of any major new facility, whether urgently needed or not,...

Live For Faith

“’Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—’tis the living up to it that is difficult.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

Happy Trees

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two...

Lifestyle Choices

“Black men who read newspapers and own library cards have had the same income as their white counterparts since 1969. Married black couples have the same poverty rate as white couples and have done for decades. And then comes the understated, Sowellian kicker....