Schroeder’s Corner
Fascinating Christmas – The Hugh Hewitt Show
Defending Christianity around Christmas has, unfortunately, become commonplace. But defending it with military force is new. Yesterday President Trump ordered airstrikes on ISIS targets in northern Nigeria where those same ISIS forces have…
The Day God Finds Us
For two decades now I have written on a blog somewhere. I always write on Christmas day, and almost no one reads. Consumed with family and friends, presents and meals, and faith – Christmas is just not a day that most people read, and…
The Most Relevant Story Ever
Finally in this Christmas week of dark stories comes a ray of light. Josh Code at The Free Press on “What Drives Gen Z to Church?” The stories of a revival of faith among younger people are quite wonderful. They give hope in a time when…
A Less Charitable Christmas? – The Hugh Hewitt Show
This is the week of Christmas – usually a very slow news week, but my stack of stuff is much deeper than usual after only a day. Sadly most of it is negative news. I wanted to write good, uplifting stuff this week. Part of the reason the…
Gratitude, Hope, Affordability and Perception
On Saturday the NYTimes carried a piece headlined, “These Young Adults Make Good Money. But Life, They Say, Is Unaffordable.” Before I read a word I thought, “New York, DUH, it is unaffordable.” And interestingly this story of anecdotes does…
The Standard Christmas Message – The Hugh Hewitt Show
It’s the Fourth Sunday of Advent, “Love” Sunday, Christmas Sunday. There is a standard sermon for this occasion I have heard countless time in my life – that Christmas is about Jesus, not presents – that Christmas is a spiritual event, not a…
The Antisemitism Import/Export Business – The Hugh Hewitt Show
I grew up on comic books written by WWII veterans. Many of those comics, especially Captain America, used Nazi sleeper cells as enemies. The premise was simple, the Third Reich had planted cells of agents in the Allied world that then…
China Will Lose, Unless We Help Them Win
I worked in the People’s Republic of China in the late 1980’s, just as they were attempting to liberalize their economy. It seemed a time of great promise. The Soviet Union was falling and China seemed determined to avoid the same fate and so…
Meme Wars – Everywhere There Are Meme Wars
Last night’s presidential address was part of the ongoing meme wars. Democrats and their willing allies in media are trying desperately to make this administration look bad. They report the bad, ignore the good and spin whatever they can. …
The Effect of Grade Inflation No One Talks About
Fox recently looked at the mounting evidence of grade inflation. Covid has accelerated it and “raised awareness” (can we officially call that turn of phrase a cliché yet?) about it, but the problem existed well before. The video piece in the…