Year: 2013

When teenage thugs are called “troubled youth” by people on the political left, that tells us more about the mindset of the left than about these young hoodlums. Seldom is there a speck of evidence that the thugs are troubled, and often there is ample evidence that they are in fact enjoying themselves, as they […]

Last week, I highlighted four little-known facts about the Declaration of Independence (http://www.creators.com/opinion/chuck-norris/12-little-known-facts-about-the-declaration-of-independence-part-1.html). Here are a few more facts to add to those oddities:   5) There are at least 26 surviving paper copies of the Declaration of Independence of the hundreds made in July 1776 for circulation among the Colonies. After Congress adopted the […]

As one who supports traditional values and a conservative political agenda, I’m more worried about the right wing’s erosion of resolve and moral courage than I am about the left’s relentless assault on our values and ideas. Surely, no one can dispute that the political left has been tirelessly chipping away at America’s foundational values […]

If a Martian were to observe the human condition, he would have to conclude that the left has an agenda to deprive children of their innocence. The Martian would have no other explanation for the premature sexualizing of children that the left has engaged in for decades, and which seems to increases almost weekly. The […]

The New York Times had the definitive take on the vicious sell off in gold. To summarize one of their articles: Two years ago gold bugs ran wild as the price of gold rose nearly six times. But since cresting two years ago it has steadily declined, almost by half, putting the gold bugs in […]

A trip to London provides an occasion to compare and contrast British politics and attitudes with those in America. Both have, in different ways, divided government. The Democratic president has been frustrated by the Republican House of Representatives and is likely but not certain to be until January 2017. Britain’s ruling coalition has been occasionally […]

I long for the sounds of summer I knew as a kid. In the ’60s and ’70s, you see, most of our neighbors kept their windows open day and night, allowing the outside sounds to come in and the inside sounds to go out. I woke every morning to the birds chirping outside my window […]