A bully disguised as a professor is an evil we have all encountered.  He uses his brains and verbal skills to belittle and make fun of others.  He believes he is smarter and better than everyone and demonstrates it at every chance.  I was a farm boy at the University when I first encountered these [...]

Conservative Christians and liberal atheists can be a lot alike.  At least when it comes to helping poor people.  A poor lady comes to your door obviously needing help, you have pity on her and you  ”loan” her some money.  Both conservative Christians and liberal atheists often think that is the right thing to do. [...]

Russians have a fascination with Americans.  In my experience, people in the former Soviet Union are eager to see and talk to Americans.  Large attentive audiences come to hear US experts because they appreciate American ideas.  Ordinary Russians contend our nations should be friends.  They respect our inventions, our entrepreneurial spirit and, especially, our victory over [...]

One candidate derides the working class as bitter people who cling to guns, religion and racism.  Another says  the lower classes will never “take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Their common motto: Extremism in deriding the poor is no vice. In these comments, we have a couple of rich guys talking to other [...]

Persuasive speakers know to use action words.  Such is often the case with American Presidents and Presidential candidates who want to appear tough on China.  Both Obama and Romney gave the requisite anti-Chinese campaign speech yesterday.  But unless they manage to reverse history, neither will take any substantive action against China in the next four [...]

How surprising was the chant from Australian streets: “Obama, Obama, we are all Osama”?  How could anyone say such a thing?  We all know Osama bin Laden was a bad guy and Obama is a hero for killing him.  Just as we all knew Libya’s Khadaffi and Iraq’s Hussein were bad guys and needed to [...]

Cairo, Egypt, Feb 28, 2012 Today at 5 am, as usual all over the Muslim world, the mosque loudspeakers blasted out the call for prayer.  Over and over it said: “Allah is great and Mohammed is his only prophet.”  As Christians we believe “God is Love.  You can only come to him through Jesus.” But [...]

We think of the Scandinavian countries as being rich and egalitarian.  But less than a hundred years ago, all Northern Europe  had a few rich families and a horde of poor people–many of whom emigrated to the opportunity of the U.S.  Norway and Sweden both had a history of horrendous poverty. When the 1 percent [...]

Racism is increasingly a justification given for all sorts of crimes, including a mass murder this week.   And those attacked have to prove they weren’t racist.    That’s the way it is in America today.  No one points out this murderer’s paranoid delusion that he is justified in killing those who are firing him [...]

When a President tells NASA that its primary mission is to make Muslims feel good about their contribution to science, it’s clear why the US has fallen so far in science and technology.    This is the type of patronizing psychobabble that only an affirmative action baby could truly believe in. The boss of the [...]