Essential Facts Roman Catholic, married, manufacturer, Air Force veteran, Michigander, conservative, Thomist, Burkean, Tocquevillean, Hayekian, cartophile, cat-owner, euchre player, and ice fisherman.
Vulcanology
Utopia's promise and Vulcan's mercy ... Hard-chromed and brutally alloyed / he fed the scrapyard hurricane. / Melting metal, his brawn enjoyed / the splash of sweat cooling the pain. / The weight of the world discarded / at the foot of his furnace lit, / he struggled to make soon parted / its history -- hard and fast writ / in twisted iron and mangled steel. / Stoking the fire, hellishly hot, / a cauldron of memories once real, / he freed the souls of things forgot. / Now thick from his lethean flame, / smelted loose of its heavy years, / the once plucky metal flowed tame, / shiny new without smiles or tears.
Key Articles
An Exceptional Land American exceptionalism is real. It is a blessing forged by history, hard work, and Providence that keeps us a free and prosperous people by enforcing our incompleteness as fallen creatures against those who would "perfect" us.
High Court Outlaws How the Constitution puts the fate of Roe v. Wade and the culture of death in the hands of our elected officials and not the Supreme Court.
The Inauthenticity of Authenticity The truth the Left despises: A man is truly himself as a moral being exercising reason and self-control, not as a clever beast enslaved to his appetites.