The Tyranny of the Offended

By David Fritsche Th.D. “I am offended!” “It is your fault that I am offended!” “The solution to my problem is that you stop offending me!” “My actions, while offended, are your fault!” And so the line of reason goes… We live in a nation and culture where free speech is paramount to our community […]Read More

Riots and Blame – Fighting the Past vs Moving into

For more than 30 years I served in the role of counselor, at the church I pastored and at the college I administered. There is one secure and sane principle in dealing with people who are having problems with their past or someone else’s past. That is to redirect their focus and get them move […]Read More

Unintended Consequences

There is a law called “the law of unintended consequences. It basically describes the shortsightedness of our human mental capacity and covers our ignorance of the things we did not think of. It is best seen, at my house, when I chop of the dead tree limb and it falls on top of the car. […]Read More

“Why can’t we all just get along?”

During the 1992 riots in South/East Los Angeles, Rodney King uttered and popularized the phrase, “Why can’t we all just get along?” There were other phrases that were never asked but maybe should have been, like: “Why can’t you stay off of drugs and obey a lawful order of a police officer? “Why did you […]Read More

He Fights

He Fights Evan Sayet – Jul 13, 2017 1:57 PM My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum.  They ask if I don’t think his tweets are ‘beneath the dignity of the office.’  Here’s my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried […]Read More

14 Lessons for Stupid People

by Patrice Lewis As I write this, the German town of Hamburg is in chaos as 100,000 anti-capitalists (otherwise known as “stupid people”) pour in to participate in a “Welcome to Hell” protest against the G20 summit. Police have responded to the violence with water cannons and pepper spray while Hamburg residents are suffering vandalism […]Read More

Happy Birthday America

It has been 240 years since our Founding Fathers declared independence from England. High School History books like to portray these men as exceptional. In many cases, they were. Benjamin Franklin was one of the smartest men of his time. You would have been hard-pressed to find a more eloquent writer than Thomas Jefferson. Don’t […]Read More

Let Freedom Ring! On this July 4th holiday, let us remember our heritage, our freedoms and those who have paid the price to protect them. Freedom, liberty and the rights of the people should never be defined by the government to the people. It must always be defined by the people to their government. Government, […]Read More

Changes in Nature

I stopped at a sample cart in Costco the other day when I saw the sign for “Organic“ Gluten Free crackers. I asked the lady if this meant that I could no longer get inorganic crackers made from non-living matter, like rocks and sand? She just stared at me and then started to recite the […]Read More

California: How to paint yourself into a corner

AB 1887 became law in California on January 1.  This bill prohibits a state agency and the Legislature from requiring any of its employees, officers, or members to travel to, or approving a request for state-funded or state-sponsored travel to, any state that, after June 26, 2015, has enacted a law that voids or repeals, […]Read More