By Bradley Harrington “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” — H.L. Mencken, “In Defense of Women,” 1918– Once in a while, as I …
by Mike Pyatt At the conclusion of WWI, there was a naive movement, that world powers must do whatever it takes to remove the causes for war and conflict, from the earth. Many idealist and humanist mislabeled WWI, “The War to end all wars.” As one of the fathers of …
By Bradley Harrington “When you violate the rights of one man, you have violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction.” — Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged,” 1957 — Last week (“’Public Safety’ Vs. Liberty,” WTE, July 9) we took a short glance at …
by Mike Pyatt Is God’s habitation in our realm as inevitable as silence to a bucolic scene, or the ascending smoke from a dying ember? Or have we descended into a sinister flirtation with the Divine? It wasn’t so in 1941. The day after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, …
