Crises of Government and Common Sense

Those things that hurt, instruct. Benjamin Franklin By Dr. Jim Ferguson Unlike leftists and wokesters, I admire the Founders of our country. Biographies are not my preferred genre, but I’ve read well-researched books about John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Ben...

Code Red

If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny. Elon Musk   It is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled. Mark Twain By Dr. Jim Ferguson It is hard for me to imagine what Joe Biden is thinking....

Courage

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. –Nelson Mandela   Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. –Winston Churchill   By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes beginning an essay is the most difficult part. My English...

Recovering

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us in the act of sickness…...

Summertime

The left views conservative free-speech as violence. They look at their violence as free-speech. Michael Anton By Dr. Jim Ferguson Summertime is the season of Gordian Knots. No, I’m not using the metaphor of an intractable problem. Nor am I delving into the Ancient...

Delusions

By Dr. Jim Ferguson If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank God, nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery. –Bill Maher   I...