A 70 year old Washington florist sued fir refusing to service a homosexual wedding has rejected the settlement offer of the states Attorney General. In 2013, citing her religious objection to homosexual marriage, Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers,...
Joseph’s Columns Archive
OBAMA LOVING AMERICA
Former New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani caused a bit of stir recently for saying that he doesn’t believe that President Barack Obama loves America. Guiliani claims that he wasn’t questioning the presidents patriotism, but his belief in American...
THE REAL DESTROYER OF LIBERTY
For Throw Back Thursday a republished column from 2005 “The real destroyer of liberties is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.” Plutarch I doubt the great Lakota chief Sitting Bull had read Plutarch but...
THE SINS OF THE FATHER
My boys and I were gathered around the computer screen, watching a Facebook video. The video depicted a father whipping his teenage daughter with a belt for staying out all night and fooling around with boys. As the girl...
LOVE LETTERS
While searching through some old files, I came across this column that I wrote in 2005. With valentines day approaching, I decided it might be nice to republish it here. My wife and I try to take time for...
BLACK WHITE ACHIEVEMENT GAP
Last Thursday, Will Smith paid for several of the Black student unions (or clubs), from the high schools in the area to attend a screening of the film “Selma.” He also supplied food and after the film, organized a...
LESBIANS AND CAKE!
Last week, an Oregon couple who, two years ago, refused to design a cake for a homosexual wedding, were found guilty of violating the state’s 2007 anti-discrimination statute. According to the Daily Signal, “The bakery owners, Aaron and Melissa...
AMAZING CHRISTIANITY, MR. PRESIDENT
Much has been made of the remarks President Obama made yesterday at the 2015 Prayer Breakfast. The portion of the president’s remarks that have received the most attention concerned the Christian crusades (in 950 A.D.) and American slavery and...
LOVING ISIS
Like most Americans, indeed like most of the conscious world, I was disturbed by the immolation of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by the thugs who call themselves ISIS. No! Disturbed is not the right word. Disturbed sounds like like the...
TEACHER BEATEN AFTER ALLEGED RACIST REMARK
A Maryland high school teacher was taken to the hospital after being assaulted by one of his male students. The student claimed that the teacher made a racially insensitive remark. There isn’t much more to the story than that,...
NEW RACIAL CATEGORIES FOR THE 2020 CENSUS
The internet is ablaze with stories that the Census Bureau may count Arab-Americans for the first time in 2020. The further we get into the 21st century the more we should be asking, why are we adding rather than...
COMEDY AND RACISM IN BERKELEY
Stand-up comic W. Kamau Bell has been all over the internet, accusing The Elmwood Eatery, a local Bay Area restaurant, of racism. The Berkeley restaurant (yes, all of this drama occurred in that hot – bed of tolerance, Berkeley)...
MODERN AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
My friend Tom Krannawitter turned me on to this criticism of the late Harry V. Jaffa, former Professor Emeritus at Claremont Mckenna College and Distinguished Fellow at the Claremont Institute. I did not know Professor Jaffa. I met him...
THE SEVEN “R’s”
I lured my sons into the garage to help me look for some long lost document with the promise of buried treasure. We never found the document I was looking for. However, while sorting through some of my father’s...