Pat’s Polemics

Red State: you don’t get a wheel chair; it’ll just make you weak Blue State: don’t go to war The real world: use diplomacy until (Continue Reading)

Liberals often cry that the institutions of this country are being destroyed, our justice system, our economy, our immigration heritage, religion, education, even art. They (Continue Reading)

Rick Perlstein in Before the  Storm cites the ferociously conservative center, Orange County, and how its residents decried government help of shiftless people. As a (Continue Reading)

Sounds like fight night, right? No, it’s a disgusting conservative challenging the right of Puerto Rico to be considered an entity, an extant item in (Continue Reading)

Religion is often depicted as “going to seed” so to speak by becoming rigid and doctrinaire, depending more on transmitted authority than independent, outside-the-box thinking (Continue Reading)

We often hear of Americans fearing living under terrorism. Max Boot, in his Invisible Armies, says only two terrorist organizations in the history of the (Continue Reading)

A PBS/NPR/Marist poll recently found that a good many Americans, while not opposed to civility, believe that “political correctness” is being overdone and pundits believe (Continue Reading)

Years ago, I think I was still in undergrad school, I began to notice and talk about a distinct difference I pick up between people (Continue Reading)

Every principal worth his salt knows the kind of teacher he wants in every classroom and knows how few they are. This teacher can be (Continue Reading)

Over the years I have often asked people who make bigoted statements about Black people what the source of their sentiments is. After hemming and (Continue Reading)