Samson's Jawbone

Many in the media were perplexed recently by President Obama's absence from the march in Paris in opposition to the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine. They have raised questions about the administration's reluctance to label jihadists as terrorist or to identify them as "Islamic extremists." Why is anyone surprised? This administration will never recognize the Islamic connection to terrorism, because the existence of religious terrorism belies multiculturalism. Multiculturalism represents an attitude about proper responses to religious, ethnic, political, linguistic and social diversity among populations. Multiculturalism   embraces differences and makes personal, social and legal accommodations for differences even when those differences are destructive to existing culture. It sees culture as pluralistic and forgoes any efforts at expecting one group to assimilate into a larger culture. It is contrary to the traditional American view of epluribus unum, or the idea of ...

My wife and I never decried the myth of Santa Claus. I never prevented my kids from watching Santa Clause television specials. We read the "Night Before Christmas." But when my kids got old enough to ask whether Santa was real we usually answered, "What do you think? Do you think a fat little man in a red suit delivers presents to everyone in the world in a 24-hour period on a flying sleigh pulled by  reindeer?" They understood immediately that Santa was a fantasy. Preschool children fantasize. When my children were small. They really believed in Santa Claus and that there was a big yellow bird who taught them to spell, a grouch who lived in a trash can, and a "cookie monster." As they grew older they learned to separate fact from fiction. The"Cat-in-the-Hat" and "Power Rangers" were the creative product of a someone's vivid imagination, as was Santa Claus. As  a Christian family we honored Jesus at Christmas and celebrated his birt...

Samson's Jawbone: The Unites States Stole Nothing From Mexico : It is time to set the record straight. Some of those who argue in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens crossing the southern border will some...

It is time to set the record straight. Some of those who argue in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens crossing the southern border will sometimes imply, (or downright claim) that immigrants from the south have a right to be here, because "the United States stole the southwest from Mexico in a greedy attempt to fulfill our ' manifest destiny .' " Nothing could be further from the truth.  Frankly I'm shocked at the ignorance Americans have of their history in general, but especially of the post-colonial period leading up to the Civil War. It is time to set the record straight: the United States stole nothing from Mexico. In 1803 President Jefferson purchased the 828,000,000 square mile Louisiana Territory which included all of modern Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and major portions of North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and a corner of Northeastern New Mexico. These territories immediately became territories of the United States and ...