CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)

There had never been a time like it, and there would never be a time like it again. Sure America didn’t officially have royalty, but it did have them unofficially. The unprecedented election of a Catholic in America as President – John Fitzgerald Kennedy – Jack Kennedy. A man from the new monied class. Well his daddy had made his money as a bootlegger, bringing illegal booze into America. There wa...

Telling the truth without fear or favour, talking to the working man in language that he could understand. Giving him a voice. That was standard that not every one wanted to meet.  There was a different point of view about what the news should be. Pulitzer’s paper was making profits large enough to even be attractive to a well-to do member of the New York State Assembly and a banker, leading them...

History is not something that’s widely taught in schools today. In his book “ Bench and Book ” Australian novelist, poet, short story writer and retired Western Australian Supreme Court judge, Nicholas Hasluck, has published some of his diary notes for the years 2000 and 2001. Important years in our history. He attended a conference in Canberra, called Challenging History . Melbourne historian. St...

Harvard University thought it had pulled off an enormous coup when it made what, for it, turned out to be the huge mistake of inviting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to speak at its Graduation Ceremony on 8 June 1978. It expected that this man, who had been given political asylum in the United States would show his gratitude to his new home country. To focus on attacking his old persecutors, the Communist...

The coming of Woke. A lot of it goes back to judicial activism. An important case was Everson v Board of Education which began to exclude Christian education from the public space. It is a case probably far worse than the Roe v Wade decision that has just been overturned but it came from the same source of judicial activism. Tag words: Justice Hugo Black; Everson v Board of Education; Bill of Righ...

Now if I told you that the first man to warn us against woke was the most famous Russian dissident and prisoner of Stalin’s gulag (concentration camp system in which 60 million people died), Alexander Solzhenitsyn who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel called One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch . You probably either don’t believe me or you don’t know who Alexander Solzhenitsyn wa...