First there was the New England Patriots NFL team, which earned the wrath of both sports fans and non-sports fans alike because of the message their issue with improperly deflated footballs sent, especially to impressionable children. Win at all...
Opinion Archive
NAMING THE ENEMY
There has been a lot of commentary on President Obama’s label–“random”–for the terror attack on the kosher grocer in France. Certainly, people make mistakes when speaking extemporaneously. But this kind of “mistake” is a chronic feature of Obamian commentary....
YOUR BLACK REPUBLICAN PROBLEM
Not long ago, Ishmael Reed wrote in the NYT: The Republican Party was influenced by the abolitionist Liberty Party, whose leading lights included William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, who later said: “I recognize the Republican...
POLITICS SCREW UP EVERYTHING
Please welcome Nathan Shafer to Triple F. We don’t yet have a page for Nathan, so today his column will run under my heading. Recently, my fascination with New Orleans history and culture led me to a book titled...
CHRISTIANS, SLAVERY, & PRAYER
On this site, I am interested in ideas and in the exchange of ideas. Dr. Thomas Krannawitter, one of my instructors during my time as a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute, has a different opinion of the president’s...
SAVING MONEY
Thinking About:Saving moneyDo you have too much month left at the end of your money?Here is a tip to help stretch your hard earned dollars. For those who primarily shop on line, consider joining ebates.com; membership is free, and...
THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE YOU KNOW
“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama said. “In our home country, slavery and...
AGAINST LIBERAL STRUCTURALISM
The problem isn’t at all structural, else Christianity would be wrong and it’s certainly older than capitalism. But as in everything it’s the person trying to make the difference that does, or doesn’t. And so one by one, individuals...
MINIMUM WAGE HIKE KILLS JOBS
For 18 years Borderland Books, a science fiction specialty store located in San Francisco, weathered every economic storm that came its way. The bookstore managed to survive recession, on-line purchasing, electronic books, even a 100% rent increase by a...
LIVING IN CHAOS
The country we are living in at present seems confusing, as if an alternate nation-state has subsumed the previously normal one. But the openly chaotic world was always this way. The cover which kept us safe has merely been...
SAUTEED HALIBUT FILLET
Thinking about: Sautéed Halibut Fillet When choosing any Fish portions, be sure to check the odor; fish should not smell fishy, it should smell like the ocean. Preheat oven to 400°f (takes about 10-15 minutes)...
CONSERVATIVE WASTELAND
No, this isn’t the proclamation of some self-loathing conservative in the pangs of political self-doubt and disillusionment. Quite the contrary. If anything I’m more conservative than I was when I left the Democratic Party in 1996 as a liberal....
STILL DREAMING
I’m homeless. Now before you start feeling sorry for me, know that I view everything as an opportunity from God. How I got here is a tiny bit important–house foreclosure plus bad credit which keeps me from renting—but if...
