by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 26, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources
Below: some preliminary remarks on a terminological issue related to a book in progress. The book: George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (New York: Hachette Books, 2019). The issue: “This is a republic, not a democracy—let’s keep it that...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 26, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Welcome to this latest edition in my “…Prompts Letter(s)” series. The materials following should bring you and this site up to date. Not addressed in detail in my various items below, though touched upon by one of them, is the efforts by Democrats to...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 6, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
I’ve continued to enjoy my new letters-to-the-editor hobby, though none of the letters I sent this past week has made it into print. (Nor has any of them shown up on the paper’s Web site, assuming the site’s search function isn’t missing...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 19, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
My trending-left local paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune (SDUT), sometimes known in the past as the U-T San Diego, recently made a point of selecting syndicated editorials that insist on interpreting all support for physical barriers at the border, and all...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 18, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary
The mainstream media were briefly abuzz last week over left-liberal Media Matters’ unearthing of some old Tucker Carlson audio. Media Matters’ Madeline Peltz begins her related article (topically organized transcript collection) with a summary of...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 25, 2019 | Brief Notices, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources
Re Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal: socialist fever dreams that can never be realized solve nothing. We need a Green Nuke Deal: “nuclear power is the only carbon-free technology that has proven capability, and which is demonstrably scalable at a...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 11, 2019 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Image: “All we are saying is give peace a chance. John Lennon,” photo by Kate Ter Haar via Flicker, cropped, resized, and stretched a bit. Used under the Attribution 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license (CC BY 2.0). Advocates of a less interventionist U.S....
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 5, 2019 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Image: based on a Wikimedia Commons photo by Vitold Muratov, used under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Derivative work by David M. Hodges, reusable under the same license terms. On 04 February, I received an interesting fundraising email from the national...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 3, 2019 | Brief Notices, Pet Peeves, Random Commentary
The United States was not founded as just a “representative democracy,” nor is “representative democracy” a synonym for “republic.” The point of the American Republic established by the U.S. Constitution is that free and sovereign...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 23, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary
Image: Islamic symbol modified for the Pious Eye site by David M. Hodges. Based upon a work by Wikimedia user DonovanCrow, used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license and available from Wikimedia Commons. In accord with that license, this modified image may itself be used...