Deana Chadwell

Deana Chadwell


  • The Danger of Nothing

    April 22, 2025

    The Danger of Nothing

    It is no wonder that prominent Democrats sound hollow, confused, and like blindfolded children trying to pin the tail on a donkey that isn’t there.

  • Breathless in America

    February 11, 2025

    Breathless in America

    There’s nothing pie-in-the-sky about our president; he isn’t a dreamer absently wishing for success. He’s doing the work.

  • In the Hands of an Angry God

    January 19, 2025

    In the Hands of an Angry God

    Nothing happens without a reason and let’s not be deaf to the messages being sent. 

  • The Necessity of Heroes

    January 8, 2025

    The Necessity of Heroes

    America has learned a difficult lesson -- we’ve lived through four years of leaderless abandonment. 

  • Christmas in America

    December 25, 2024

    Christmas in America

    There’s no doubt that Christmas is, for America, the most thoroughly celebrated holiday of the year. 

  • Our National Near-Death Experience

    December 23, 2024

    Our National Near-Death Experience

    America is just coming-to after a near-death experience.  We came within a hair’s breadth of ceasing to be America. This election has brought us back to life.

  • The Threat of Cool

    December 11, 2024

    The Threat of Cool

    We expect in any election a certain amount of name-calling and verbal attack, but the sickness we’re seeing is way beyond energetic persuasion. 

  • The Blind Eye

    November 15, 2024

    The Blind Eye

    This election displayed our national revulsion to untruth; we don’t like to be lied to. We 

  • The Importance of Official Utterances

    July 20, 2024

    The Importance of Official Utterances

    No doubt Democrats and Republicans alike are hoping some legal, smooth method will “rid us of this pesky president.” 

  • Gullibility 101

    July 1, 2024

    Gullibility 101

    We watch Washington D.C. like we’d watch a ship steaming way too fast toward a crowd on the pier. 

  • Carts and Horses

    June 20, 2024

    Carts and Horses

    Cause-and-effect is one of the first abstract ideas the human brain learns to deal with.

  • Beating the Historical Odds

    June 9, 2024

    Beating the Historical Odds

    Donald Trump, for all his faults, is demonstrating almost superhuman courage, dogged determination, and strong faith in both God and America.

  • Denial and the Big Tilt

    June 2, 2024

    Denial and the Big Tilt

    Denial is usually a matter of individual choice, but in the last century denial has become a national pastime, a way of life, a worldview. 

  • Onward Christian Soldiers

    May 18, 2024

    Onward Christian Soldiers

    Deep in our hearts we know that we’re in serious trouble as a nation. Deep in our hearts -- atheist or otherwise -- we know we need super-human guidance.

  • Glass Words

    May 5, 2024

    Glass Words

    Too many of our most polemic words have turned to glass -- fragile, unsubstantial, hard, and cold.

  • August 10, 2023

    Fighting the Flying Monkeys

    We are so far down the rabbit hole and our downward momentum is so fast that it’s hard to sort things out.

  • May 30, 2023

    That was Then: Soon This Will be Too

    There’s a reason why the left wants to erase our history -- it is impossible to destroy us if we still have that history for inspiration.

  • December 11, 2022

    Reimagining the Secular Fairytale

    Our nation is suffering mightily under fantastical decisions made by people who either don’t know what they’re doing, or do know and don’t care.

  • September 14, 2022

    A Leaking Ship of Fools

    The weaving together of evil and good is the source of much of our problem. 

  • September 4, 2022

    I Feel the Earth Move Under my Feet

    What should America do to prepare for the inevitable shocks to come? 

  • August 9, 2022

    Kamala Speaks the Truth?

    Kamala's glossolalia turns coherent just long enough to undercut the Left. 

  • August 5, 2022

    Give us Liberty or -- What?

    Patrick Henry understood the dichotomy our forefathers faced.  

  • November 20, 2020

    The Left's Utter Nonsense

    Those of us who can still think know that what we have going for us is superior. 

  • October 22, 2020

    Living Without Justice

    Our personal, and national, inherent demand for justice must be met, and if it is not, our society is doomed.

  • August 15, 2020

    Reality and Delusion in A.D. 2020

    Americans must start taking responsibility for the way we've been viewing events.

  • August 1, 2020

    The New Ten Commandments

    A society that rejects God and prefers making up its own rules often finds itself in a state of confusing flux. 

  • May 8, 2020

    Lurking Behind the Statistics

    Some are so concerned for our physical well-being that they’ve forgotten that there’s a lot more to a human being than flesh and blood. 

  • March 15, 2020

    Screwtape Revisited

    Donald Trump is the worst thing to happen to Satan's legions in centuries; it isn't just the Democrats and the NeverTrumps who hate him.

  • March 7, 2020

    Standing Strong on the Constitution

    The left isn't at all interested in continuing the grand experiment that is America. The left is about ending it entirely.

  • February 18, 2020

    The Epic Donald

    He crushes his enemies, sees them driven before him, and hears the lamentations of Hillary, Amy, and Nancy. What's not to like? 

  • January 15, 2020

    Making America America Again

    Americans are going to have to find a balance between being neighborhood tattletales and being libertines. 

  • January 5, 2020

    Our Lady of Perpetual Impeachment vs. America

    This election won't be about personalities or policies or partisanship. This election is entirely existential.

  • October 22, 2019

    Slight of Hand

    If we want the glories of this amazing country to continue we have to dig in and fight. 

  • September 26, 2019

    Greta the Angry

    Greta Thunberg knows very little, and what she thinks she knows makes her very angry.

  • August 23, 2019

    The Left's Neverland

    The Left has built for itself a make-believe utopian country.

  • August 11, 2019

    Twilight Zone Nation

    The idea of absolute truth is repulsive to many people, largely because truth is limiting.

  • June 29, 2019

    Ideoloons

     If the Democratic candidates are the top, what on God’s green earth is at the bottom?  

  • June 19, 2019

    The Denizens of Tentopolis

    We make the mistake of talking about “the homeless” in the same homogenous way we discuss “blacks” or “illegals.” 

  • April 23, 2019

    Living in Leftlandia

    It's hard not to notice how little growing up those on the Left have actually accomplished. 

  • March 9, 2019

    The Left vs. Life in General

    The new left is not at all interested in our individual need for fulfillment. 

  • February 11, 2019

    Kudos to Sandy O

    The freshperson congresswoman has made things clear -- things that have been vague and foggy are now utterly transparent. 

  • January 22, 2019

    The Left vs. Logic

    The left has walked away from absolute truth and therefore from sensible policy and therefore from sanity. 

  • January 5, 2019

    How the Left Appropriates Christianity

    Non-Christians have no idea how practical true, biblical Christianity is. 

  • November 5, 2018

    Five Truths About Elections

    Elections are always important because power is always important. We are not only deciding which individuals we will place in power over us, but which ideas we will allow to control our lives. 

  • August 31, 2018

    Legalizing the Constitution

    We cannot protect the Constitution if we don't take the time to think it through, if we don't even know what it says. 

  • August 11, 2018

    Are Millennials Educable?

    Once the schools cannot hold kids back because they haven't mastered reading and math, then subsequent teachers are under pressure – political, professional, and pragmatic – to keep the momentum going.

  • July 18, 2018

    Fragmentation and the Family

    Instead of a nation of cooperating adults working toward a common goal, we have become a group of squabbling children fighting over the available toys.

  • February 21, 2018

    A Weak and Crumbling Foundation

    What do humans do when they discover that everything they've believed in is wrong?

  • November 6, 2017

    Flying over the Cuckoo's Nest

    What do we value more: entertainment or decency, respect, and safety for our children? 

  • September 21, 2017

    Holes in Our Heads

    Can one think untruth day after day, year after year, and expect it to not affect one's brain? 

  • August 22, 2017

    The Real News

    Our forefathers set out to build a righteous nation, but she can only be as good as the righteousness of her citizens.  If those citizens think they can fake integrity and moral virtue by being destructive loudmouths, then America is over. 

  • August 13, 2017

    America's Deadly Sins

    Despite their lack of historical expertise, many students today seem sure that our sins are mostly buried in our deep, dark past. 

  • June 19, 2017

    To Serve My Turn upon Him

    Comey knows exactly what he's doing – the same as Iago did.

  • June 4, 2017

    Cliff-Hanging and Earthquakes

    Our national dialogue is getting nastier and nastier because, at the very bottom of the cliffs we stand on, our assumptions are diametrically opposed. 

  • May 7, 2017

    Needing Eden

    We are faced with a generation of Americans trying to assuage their longing for the Garden by denying that we ever left it. 

  • April 27, 2017

    Clearing the Cobwebs

    Liberals have no rational point to make, but they make it loudly.

  • April 9, 2017

    The Point of No Return

    The Western world in the 21st century works hard to mask final realities.

  • February 13, 2017

    Getting Things Done

    We all know that we’re in a national bind on many fronts and that things must change. But how? 

  • January 26, 2017

    Reality Bites

    On Friday Donald Trump let the country know that the ship is turning, which will be painful for some who didn’t know the ship was almost over the falls.

  • January 8, 2017

    Nothing but the Truth

    Our entire federal government has turned its back on truth, and we are going to have to be most diligent in returning it to its proper place.

  • December 25, 2016

    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!

    Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men! 

  • December 16, 2016

    Faux News and the Value of Truth

    Post-election, we find the very people who happily manufactured lie after lie after lie so unhappy with the ineffectiveness of those lies that they’ve suddenly noticed a new phenomenon: fake news. 

  • December 3, 2016

    The Opposite of Right

    This election shined a light on the inevitable corruption of a government built on two serious misunderstandings. 

  • November 16, 2016

    Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

    This is where liberalism, where leftist, socialist thinking, has led us – to a generation that can do nothing to cope. 

  • October 8, 2016

    Pearls and swine

    How to vote your conscience. 

  • September 4, 2016

    What a Tangled Web

    Those in the socialist half of this society have been pretending theirs is a winning option ever since Woodrow Wilson and the graduated income tax.

  • August 14, 2016

    A Tale of Two Powers

    We need to get our powers back in balance, but evidently God knows we can’t handle the adjustment in one fell swoop.

  • June 19, 2016

    The Burning Sands

    There’s a reason we refer to the perfect society as Never-Never Land. We’ll never get there. 

  • June 12, 2016

    Science and Limits

    A look at some of the marvels of this world that science can address only in a shallow and mechanistic manner. 

  • May 20, 2016

    My Country Was of Thee

    We are a Christian nation -- or we are no nation at all.

  • April 24, 2016

    Tell the Ghosts

    Not only are Islamist terrorists driven to kill the present; they must also kill the past. 

  • April 10, 2016

    Slouching Toward Washington

    We will be highly entertained for the rest of the year – entertained in the edge-of-the-seat horror movie sense of the word, but entertained nevertheless. 

  • March 30, 2016

    Those Aren’t Our Values

    In this modern world, based on evolutionary thinking and the idea that we’re always getting better, smarter, more sophisticated, values are seen as superior in every way.

  • February 22, 2016

    The Donald’s Shaky Foundation

    It’s been a relief to hear our national anger voiced. But we’re at the point in this election where we need to be looking at Trump not as a spokesperson, but as a job applicant.

  • February 7, 2016

    Compromise and the Law of the Excluded Middle

    Though progressives like the word, logic isn’t a high priority in liberal circles.

  • January 18, 2016

    The Wrong Turn

    Human beings, unless trained to be decent, humble, and caring, have in our very DNA the capacity to think and commit evil.

  • January 6, 2016

    To Be, or Not to Be Offended

    America has grown half a population with no backbone, no resilience, no interest in truth and the discomfort that often accompanies its discovery. 

  • December 25, 2015

    Mary -- Did You Know?

    What did Mary know, and how could she have known it? 

  • November 26, 2015

    Let All Things Now Living

    In praise of all that is.

  • November 18, 2015

    Sticks and Stones

    We’re dealing with a generation that has no idea that society is a matter of both give and take, and this lack of understanding has put them and everything around them at terrible risk. 

  • November 15, 2015

    Morality: What is it good for?

    The historical fact is that the more people who choose to live according to the divine code of morality the more stable, prosperous, and free a society will be.  

  • November 2, 2015

    The Clueless Generation

    Education is about truth and there’s very little of that in our schools. 

  • October 11, 2015

    Distortions of the Dream

    The real American Dream, because it honors the God-given individuality and amazing potential of each and every human being, not only promises, but delivers, riches and happiness. 

  • September 26, 2015

    Black Lives and the Death of a Culture

    Do black lives matter? You wouldn’t know it by looking at the governmental policies that have been in place since the Civil Rights Movement. 

  • September 6, 2015

    Reality Therapy for Liberals

    Freedom is not a commodity that can be bartered for a mess of pottage. It is not a figment of man’s imagination; it is real and it is as necessary as air. 

  • August 23, 2015

    Back to School -- Really?

    If parents can send their kids to a school that teaches what they believe, then the church/state hammer no longer has any weight.

  • July 26, 2015

    Our National Scorecard

    Judging from the popularity of Trump and Cruz and Walker, it looks like we are still a nation that values truth over political correctness, strength over weakness, good over evil.

  • May 23, 2015

    A Phobiaist's Complaint

    I don’t hate blacks, gays, or Muslims, but I do hate it when people use the smoke and mirrors of illogic and linguistic trickery to hide the fact that they have no idea what they are 

  • May 9, 2015

    The Four Horsemen of the Education Apocalypse

    Just as the blacks have been fed a diet of self-defeating victimization, so the white youth of this country have been served up a dozen years of unrelenting guilt that has withered their souls. 

  • April 30, 2015

    American Dichotomies

    Our society, now largely controlled by the progressive mentality, pulls up its skirts and tiptoes past all age-old, fundamental contrasts, because they serve as measuring sticks. 

  • April 13, 2015

    Let Them Eat Cake

    Can government bless a gay marriage? All it can do is abuse those who don’t approve, and no one has ever been blessed by someone else’s misery. 

  • February 9, 2015

    The Mad Hatter's Lament

    The greatest republic in the historical record goes down the rabbit hole.

  • January 14, 2015

    Multiculturalism and the Myth of Compromise

    The horrors of 9/11, the Boston bombing, the Fort Hood shooting, and the Paris massacre demand that civilized people adjust their thinking about two closely-related ideas: multiculturalism and compromise.

  • December 25, 2014

    The Star out of Jacob

    Most other religions have at their center beings that are not thoroughly embedded in recorded history. But Jesus Christ is different.

  • December 20, 2014

    Diane Feinstein, the Iron Maiden

    Nothing is more unattractive than superior uber-fastidious self-righteousness, especially when you stack it up against self-less devotion to duty and nation that we find in our military and investigative institutions

  • December 6, 2014

    Even Steven -- Fundamental Problems with Equality

    Equality in outcome can never be realized. When we institutionalize equality, some human beings have to impose that equality, and therefore those people are, by necessity, above all others.

  • November 18, 2014

    Paradise and Perdition

    The communal understanding of social order does not recognize the exceptionality of each person and sees us, instead, as mere game pieces to be shoved around as necessary.

  • October 30, 2014

    The Age of Arrogance

    Because of the arrogance of information and the glut on “experts,” we can no longer read with charity, with curiosity, only with suspicion.

  • October 23, 2014

    One Bad Apple: Obama and his Influence

    Barack Obama has created so much havoc with his ideology and policies that it will take us years to recover.

  • October 8, 2014

    The Power of Perversity

    If a large enough number of Americans habitually make negative choices, feeling that by doing so they are making atonement for the imagined sins of their ancestors, we are all negatively affected.

  • October 1, 2014

    Deja vu of the Worst Kind

    Anyone with any common sense can see what is going to go wrong militarily in the new phase of the War against Terror, but beyond that we must be aware of the mistakes we made the last time we “won” a war against militant Islamists.

  • September 17, 2014

    The Inside Scoop -- One Teacher's Experience

    The miasma of public school education is a many-headed monster, and many of those horrid heads are administrative.

  • July 28, 2014

    Eleven Commandments and the Color 9

    Ten commandments are not enough for Elizabeth Warren.

  • July 18, 2014

    Truth Telling and the Abuse of Language

    If you were a member of an elitist group trying to get complete control of a logical and stiff-necked people, what would you have to accomplish first?

  • May 25, 2014

    The Power of Powers

    America is not Washington, D.C.. America is not Los Angeles, not New York, not Miami. It is the little hamlets that are the glue that holds this country to its roots.

  • April 13, 2014

    At the Core -- Human Nature vs. the Test

    We must remember that schools are rarely any better than the societies that produce them.

  • March 16, 2014

    Truth or Dare and the Great Divide

    It’s not hard to understand the drumbeat for relative truth -- that point of view has many advantages.

  • March 3, 2014

    Ragtime and the Seven Branches

    It's about time we shut this show down.

  • February 22, 2014

    Going Somewhere Dangerous

    Our mistake has been to pretend that a middle ground exists on which both the left and right could meet and agree.

  • February 6, 2014

    Common Core and Unionitis

    Common Core is merely a symptom -- the actual disorder afflicting American education lies deeper.