Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers

Democratic Socialism, leftism or Marxism by any other name, is once again ascendant in the US among the young, the restless, and the woefully ill-informed. It is a wolf in sheep's clothing and has never--got that, never--produced a healthy, free, and prosperous society in all of history. But it is dangerous and a threat to American well-being, so we need to learn about it, what it is, certain...

July 4, 2026 is America's 250th birthday. Many will celebrate with their expressions of patriotism. Some, seemingly a lot, will not celebrate, unable to separate their patriotic feelings for their country's heritage and ideals from contemporary politics and personalities.  Or, too many Americans simply now reject America's heritage and ideals, considering the country's blessed...

"Virtue" is an old word, not used much today, unless with its narrower late-19th Century meaning referring to feminine modesty and chastity. But it is a word the Founding Fathers knew well and a concept they discussed at length, for they believed that a free society could not endure without a virtuous citizenry. For them, the old broader meaning of the term applied, moral character, judg...

Fathers are key to healthy children becoming mature adults. Absence of a father, inattention of a father, engagement with a bad father can decimate, even destroy a child's life. Many of the social pathologies America is experiencing today track back to a breakdown of the family and often the impact of a poor father - boys in prison, adolescent girls getting pregnant, drug and domestic abuse -...

The nuclear family, sometimes called the traditional or natural family, Dad, Mom and a few kids, has been under duress since the 1960s.  Earlier it was social trends, cultural change, economics, education and employment decisions, that put pressure on the family, but later and more recently its been intentional targeting by groups like Black Lives Matter or leftism in general. Also, since 1973, ab...

Sports betting in the USA is on a roll, and the gambling missteps or crimes of high profile athletes and coaches does not seem to have slowed this juggernaut.  In 2018, the Supreme Court allowed states to determine their own approach to sports betting.  By 2026, twenty seven states have legalized online sports gambling.  With the explosive growth of apps like DraftKings, FanDuel, and more, America...

Change is a fact of life, some good, some not so good. In my three score and ten years American culture has witnessed extensive change. I'd argue much of it is not good and that we are not better off than we used to be -- technologically maybe, and that's a maybe, but not morally, not culturally. Think with me a while on some of these changes - abortion, same-sex marriage, transgenderism...

Multiculturalism has, along with woke DEI, one of the religions du jour of the intelligentsia for about fifty years now. It sounds good. Everyone no matter their religions, values, practices, ways of life, nationality, we'll all just meld together in one big happy family. John Lennon hoped for something like this with his 1971 "Imagine," in which some of the lyrics say, "Imagin...

Antisemitism has been called the world's "oldest hatred." Jews, who the Bible calls God's "chosen people" through whom the Savior, Jesus Christ, came to the world, have been the focus of harassment, persecution, conspiracy theories, and various "final solutions" since near the time of their inception as Abraham's lineage. Just in the last few years seei...

Persecution of Christians worldwide is at an all-time high, with over 360 million Christians (1 in 7 worldwide) experiencing high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith. Nigeria is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world for Christians, number 7 on Open Doors World Watch List. People debate whether this is a genocide, but whether it is or not, Nigerian Christians...

We base our decisions on assumptions, values, presuppositions, what Francis A. Schaeffer used to call "pre-theoretical commitments." These guiding values can come from a wide range of sources but at bottom, they are religious because we are religious creatures, even those who identify as no-religion. So, what guides your decisions? A Christian is enjoined to align his or her life and pra...

The U.S. national debt stands at $39 trillion. Then again, it does not stand. It keeps climbing. You can watch it on the US National Debt Clock website. It's mesmerizingly scary. To say the national debt is unsustainable is to state the obvious, but few seem to believe it other than some leaders in Washington, DC, perhaps some economists et al. But even with President Donald Trump's emph...

July 4, 2026 is the USA's 250th birthday. But with the division, polarization, hyper-partisanship, leftism, and now Islamism afoot in America, more than a few pundits are wondering aloud if America is on its last legs. Patriotism is down significantly from the 1976 Bicentennial or even the new Millennium in 2000. People are dejected, disillusioned, despairing, and increasingly nihilistic (lif...

We are likely on camera almost everywhere we go today. We live in a mass surveillance, track and trace society and the tech is getting more powerful by the month, now adding AI to the mix.  For citizens, and for law enforcement, there is a tension between freedom that we wish to maintain and security that we hope to experience. Maximize freedom and collective security may be at risk. Maximize secu...

Well, it took a while, but the International Olympics Committee has finally returned to biological, historical, moral, athletic sanity by ruling that women's events are for women and men's events are for men. No crossovers in the name of transgenderism. Can you imagine what Olympians past would say if they could know how the IOC, and most sports associations and leagues, have operated th...

The political Left has now surpassed traditional Liberals in national political influence in academia, media, and more. Whereas Liberals generally want to reform America because they believe in the country, its founding ideals, and its potential, Leftists want revolution, radical change that elevates ideals contrary to the founding and displaces the American heritage. Simply put, Liberals are, sti...

Most of us meet someone if not more than one person in life who is, well, in a word, disgusting, or someone impossible to get along with, or maybe someone threatening, evil, or dangerous. What then? Is it OK to just walk away? To just "give up" on someone, maybe even a wayward relative? We've all heard stories of faithful grandmas who've prayed for years for a delinquent grands...

At this publication the USA and Israel are at war with Iran. Much has been made in media that this action represents aggression by the US and Israel, seemingly ignoring forty-seven years of consistent aggression and violence by Iran against America, "The Great Satan," and Israel. Many have trotted out the cliches "violence breeds violence" and calls for "immediate ceasefir...

Assisted suicide, euthanasia, or the umbrella term assisted dying are now in vogue in several European countries, Canada, and increasingly in the United States. If Canada's experience is any guide, what starts as compassion for the suffering escalates in time to a wide spectrum of rationales allowing unhappy people to take their own lives, legally and with healthcare professional assistance....

Nothing like the unexpected death of a friend or acquaintance to bring the reality of mortality front and center to your thoughts. Scripture says, "It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment," (Heb. 9:27), and a cursory review of history present and past bears this out. So, if the Lord tarries his coming, someday I am going to die, and so are you. Given this incon...

In 2018, the Supreme Court of the US let the tiger out of the cage, decriminalizing sports betting. Now, with states jumping on the gravy train sports betting continues to attract ever greater numbers of bettors, particularly young men. Problem is, betting is as detrimental to human wellbeing as it ever has been. Gambling of all forms attracts the criminal class, graft, greed, and corruption. The...

Can we believe anything we hear or view in media today? It's an interesting question. Point is, we need to discern what we are being presented because media is itself selective, biased, and at times untruthful. This is exacerbated today by America's political, and truth be told, cultural and social polarization. Media just reflects this, develops coverage that attracts people holding cer...

Population decline is no longer a future projection but a present reality. The West, if not the world, is well into a shrinking and aging population trend. The USA's population replacement rate is 1.6, well below the 2.1 children per child-bearing-age woman needed for replacement without something like immigration. Nearly all the economically advanced countries of the world are in similar sha...

Jan. 19, 2026, about three dozen protesters entered the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, disrupting an ongoing worship service and chanting “ICE out” and “Renee Good."  Some of the protestors claimed a First Amendment right allowing their actions, while opponents argued the protestors violated the First Amendment rights of church parishioners attending the service. Confusion over 1A righ...

Elected officials on the Left and Right, Progressives, Democrats, and Republicans have become increasingly bold and often crude in their public comments attacking the opposition or decrying some development they do not like. Traditional four-letter words are passé. Now it's vulgarities like the F-word. Apparently officials think this makes them sound tough or sincere or authoritative. But mor...