The Power and Purpose of Western Civilization
Civilizations rise and fall, but Western Civilization has withstood horrific stresses and still resulted in the modern world. But its strength — its Judeo-Christian rules — is being drained. ...
About: Dennis Behreandt
Posts by Dennis Behreandt
Slavery: The Deep History of the Great Evil
Modern observers single out America as being responsible for the great evil of slavery. But, put in full historical context, the great achievement of the Founders is the first...
Cultural Cleansing
Again, past is prelude — we see reruns today of what has happened before. The ancient, and not so ancient, history of totalitarian statist efforts to obscure and rewrite...
An Inconvenient Travesty
Al Gore’s new global-warming alarmism film not only counts on viewers being scientifically and historically ignorant, it features Gore as a Christ-like figure. ...
The Dawn of Hope
In the wake of an ugly election and the midst of near-worldwide social chaos, hope lies in the fact that people, in general, are beginning to recognize the cause...
The Canary in the Coal Mine: Trouble Ahead for America?
I have a theory about the canary in the coal mine. I expect that before it died of asphyxiation, it would panic and chirp loudly and vigorously at the...
The Politics of Resentment
Few things have captured in microcosm what has gone so painfully wrong, where racial issues are concerned, like the recent election for mayor of Washington, D.C. ...
Profit versus Nonprofit
"Philadelphia Scandal Underscores Pitiful State of Public Housing Oversight," read Jonathan Berr's Aug. 28 report in the Daily Finance. It was a story about Carl Greene, the embattled director...
Penny-Wise on Crime
For more than 200 years, the political left has been coming up with reasons why criminals should not be punished as much, or at all. The latest gambit in...
The Money of Fools Part IV – Disarmament
One of the many words that sound so attractive, to people who do not think beyond the word, is "disarmament." ...
“Liberals” and “Conservatives” – The Money of Fools, Part III
Among the many words that don't mean what they say, but which too many of us accept as if they did, are those staples of political discussion, "liberals" and...
The Money of Fools, Part 2
Words are supposed to convey thoughts, but they can also obliterate thoughts and shut down thinking. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a catchword can "delay further analysis for...
Liberalism Under Siege
Charles Krauthammer, in his Washington Post column (8/27/10), said, "Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed," pointing out that overwhelming majorities of Americans have repudiated liberal agenda items...
The Money of Fools
Seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes said that words are wise men's counters, but they are the money of fools. That is as painfully true today as it was four...
Photographers Are Not Terrorists
Are you a photographer? Do you like to take photos when you travel, maybe at airports? How about airplanes? Marvels of technical achievement, they inspire awe, and some photographers...