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A Revival of Hatred
(Copyright 06-04-2025) by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina) On May 8, 2025, the world witnessed the eightieth anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe over the Axis forces led by Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Though Hitler and his minions committed untold atrocities against humanity, the greatest of these was the Holocaust, the barbaric extermination of over six million Jews. Sadly, the same malevolent tenets of antisemitism that inspired the Holocaust have experienced a resurgence in Western civilization, spurring a new movement of violent opposition to Jews and the modern nation of Israel. Antisemitism can be defined as unfounded animosity or hostility against […]
American Education: A System Destroyed
(Copyright 2023) by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina) Once upon a time, before World War II, American schools, from elementary through university, were the world’s envy. Year after year, the American education system, including public and private institutions, topped most, if not all, global rankings. Little wonder the post-war American economy, fed by well-educated high school and college graduates, was also a world leader. However, with the massive buildup of the federal bureaucracy during WWII, Washington, DC, turned its sights toward the nation’s schools. Among its chief desires was to exert its influence and centralize an already successful system, then […]
Slowly Sinking
(Copyright 2022) by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina) Historians commonly refer to the twentieth century as the American Century, mostly due to the overwhelming might of the United States military and its ever-increasing potential to impact the global geopolitics of the day. Prior to World War II, however, the U.S. was considered a regional power, with little political will to project itself militarily across the Atlantic or the Pacific oceans. Without that will, most observers deemed the U.S. too weak or too disinterested to match the rising Axis powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy. But the Japanese attack on Pearl […]
Pulling the Plug
(Copyright) by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina) American leaders—particularly those on the political left and ostensibly concerned about managing climate change—are poised to rewrite the longstanding energy paradigm responsible for fueling the enviable lifestyle and productivity enjoyed by the United States since the Industrial Revolution. By outlawing or harshly regulating traditional means of power and fuel generation and promoting renewable but unreliable “green” technologies, these leaders look to “pull the plug” on the fossil fuel industry. Doing so will dictate wholesale changes in how we live, work, play, produce, and consume. While the politics behind these changes can be complicated, […]
The World’s Buckling Supply Chain
(Copyright) by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina) A convergence of adverse and unexpected events has resulted in a global supply chain crisis of enormous proportions, threatening to derail worldwide economic activity in virtually every financial sector, with social and political stability stumbling in its wake. The trouble began with the global lockdown—beginning in the spring of 2020—in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Consumer demand for goods and services tanked rapidly, as many workers were laid off or forced to work from home. At the same time, students were required to school at home via the Internet, and everyone had to […]
The Vulgar State of America
(Copyright) by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina) Time was, in America, when we did not accept crude language, gestures, or behavior in polite society—certainly not in mixed company—and never during prime-time television. Offensive words and actions, those that transgressed decency, were reserved for “adult-only” entertainment venues, back alleys, and the proverbial locker room. Alas, that is no longer the case. Public discourse and what passes for entertainment are now coarser than ever. Vulgarity has gone mainstream, and few, if any, seem to care. Nine years ago, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, as president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, penned an article […]
Universal Basic Income
by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina) Regardless of one’s perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic historically upended the global community. Of the many burdens the world has suffered in its wake, some of the greatest have been economic. In the United States, many businesses—large, medium, and small—were forced to shut down or dramatically scale back their operations for the best part of a year as much of society sheltered-in-place at home. Tragically, many of these businesses never reopened. Unemployment naturally skyrocketed to levels not seen since the Great Depression, and with that unemployment came widespread economic pain. Responding to the many fiscal woes of […]
A Drop to Drink
by Joseph B. Baity (Charlotte, North Carolina) Water is growing markedly more precious with the extended and expanding droughts of the American West. Some sub-regions count 2021 as the twenty-first consecutive year of too little rain. Currently, 95 percent of the West—the most extensive area ever on record—is officially in drought, with 65 percent rated “extreme” or “exceptional,” the two direst categories. As a result, hydrologists and other water experts are anxiously preparing for an unpleasant announcement, expected later this month, of the first-ever federally declared water shortage on the Colorado River. This declaration includes Lake Mead, the nation’s largest capacity […]