Rerum Novarum

Excerpts From Literature/Writings: One summer Aksionov was going to the Nizhny Fair, and as he bade good-bye to his family, his wife said...

Along With Youth A porcupine skin, Stiff with bad tanning, It must have ended somewhere. Stuffed horned owl Pompous Yellow eyed; Chuck-wills...

Points to Ponder: Men prefer to remain in ignorance and to pronounce rash judgments on things which are difficult and obscure rather than ...

Briefly on Burying the Hatchet in 2019... As I have grown older, I have been more conscious of the need in many spheres of life to be a br...

Briefly... Lent is upon us and while there are issues of far greater importance  than what I am about to say, I will simply note very brie...

Points to Ponder: There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten tho...

Today would have been the 78th birthday of my father Richard Dunn McElhinney. If readers could offer some prayers for the eternal repose of ...

Briefly on the Emerging New Site Formatting: In the fiddling around with the template, I have decided to include as labels almost all the ...

Points to Ponder: Smoking cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must alw...

Let Children Get Bored Again

Roberts again sides with liberal Supreme Court justices in disagreeing with lower court interpretations To summarize this situation in seque...

9-0: SCOTUS Rules That Eighth Amendment’s “Excessive Fines” Clause Applies To The State I have written on civil asset forfeiture before{1}...

Points to Ponder: “We should not have an 'open mind' because that means we grant plausibility to anything, however, we should hav...

Tim Eyman has sponsored a number of good initiatives in Washington state over the years. However, what he did here sullies his reputation a...

There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns cri...

Points to Ponder: "Ninety five percent of what is published on all subjects is hogwash." [Arthur Jones]

Alabama newspaper editor calls for KKK 'to night ride again' Some parts of Alabama struggle to come into 1970...in 2019!

Points to Ponder: "Not everything is fit to print. There is to be regard for at least probable factual accuracy, for danger to innoce...

In perusing some ways to update this website in terms of general theme and other factors, the site may look odd from time to time over the n...

AOC wants to return to FDR roots of the Democratic Party and WHOA NELLY, this goes badly