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The year the lions lay down with the Lamb
(Copyright 2015) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) [MANY YEARS FROM NOW, to coin a phrase, people will still be talking about these awful times – not so much awful for the weather (acts of God) but for the awful acts of men: mass shootings and children beheaded, kidnappings and sex slavery, executions, and torture, and then, besides that, WAR. Now imagine you’re in the year 2525 – after the “Big Gulp” and the big changes.] Grandpa, tell us again about the bad old days.Well, Ismail, the 21st century started out really, really sad, but . . . Did kids really get shot […]
‘The most brilliant thoughts of all time’
(Copyright 2010) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” — Thomas Paine, c. 1774 IT’S NO SECRET THAT OUR PRESIDENT WANTS TO “REMAKE” AMERICA (Barack Hussein Obama). This is the final column for now in a series based on a book review of “The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time” by John M. Shanahan — who also created the “Hooked on Phonics” program. I meant to mention that in the previous columns, because that alone would make Shanahan a hero in my book. If this country had taken the money it […]
Commencement address time again (but can the grads read?)
(Copyright 05-03-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “IT WILL COME AS NO SURPRISE to anyone who has listened to a commencement speech in the last ten years to know that a spirit of elitism has been fostered among students – and deliberately – by politicians. Not so well known is the fact that many professors pander this same line to their classes, telling them how smart, how well-educated they are. “The words of politician and professor combine to reinforce the usual late-teenage ignorance; students of that age already assert their self-superiority. In short, too many professors pander to their audience and […]
We don’t know the day or the hour, but…
(Copyright 08-02-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “It is time, Lord, for You to work, for they have made void Thy law.” – Psalm 119 THIS IS THE COLUMN I was always going to write “someday.” Maybe it’s time. We can see the shadows lengthening. The following is excerpted from my book “Morning Medications; God’s Minute Paraphrased” (you can read it for free on my Facebook page, one day at a time): “Marvel wondrously, for I will work in your day that you will not believe, even if it were told you.” –Habakkuk 1 “He will finish the work, and cut it short […]
Who’s calling whom hypocrites?
(Copyright 04-25-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The Holy Spirit makes intercession for us with sighs that cannot be uttered.” – Paul Never mind, for the moment, why my opinions are so “opinionated,” or whether I have my own ‘skeletons.’ “The world is full of fools,” someone once said, “and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.” The question really is, who’s the biggest hypocrite? The people who don’t want to hear pessimistic warnings are the first ones who want to know if there’s a traffic cop ahead (they may even have their own radar detector). […]
Pantyhose on fire: To those who say, “What difference does it make?”
(Copyright 2016) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.” – Dwight Eisenhower “The lie in the Soul is a true lie.” –Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) This life’s five windows of the soul Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not thro’ the eye. –William Blake (1757-1827) To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, […]
‘Why does God allow such things to happen?’
(Copyright 07-10-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “A great and strong wind rent the mountains, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake, and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, [but] after the fire a still small voice.” – Kings 19 “The Truth is stranger than fiction,” they say. “But not as popular.” People who believe in no God or a hands-off God shouldn’t complain when He keeps His hands off. I’ve recently talked to two elderly men who claim they […]
Walz & China, new allegations
(Copyright 06-30-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) Tucker Carlson appeared to be in near disbelief over allegations brought against Minn. Gov. Tim Walz by investigative journalist Liz Collin. Collin claimed that National Guard members who served with Walz are blowing the whistle over an Army tank manual “that went missing” during his tenure. “[Tim Walz] was assigned to this tank. It was nuclear capable,” Collins said before getting to the alleged nefarious behavior. Collins said the whistleblowers had contacted the FBI because Walz was travelling “back and forth” to China at the time. Tucker stopped her to get a handle on the allegations. “You are […]
1860s Nihilists, 1960s Hippies and 2025 Rioters
(Copyright 06-11-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Religion was to be replaced by the exact sciences, family life by free love, private property by collectivism… “ – Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910 IN VIEW OF the violent rioting in California and other places, it’s past time to republish the following excerpts from my March 20, 2022, column. “NIHILISM, the name commonly given to the Russian form of revolutionary Socialism, which had at first an academical character, and rapidly developed into an anarchist revolutionary movement.” [The following quotes are all from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition (1910), with my emphasis throughout.] “It originated in the early […]
Root of bitterness + demons = mass shootings
(Copyright 04-15-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The question isn’t why an all-powerful God allows tragedy to happen; the question is what is wrong with us that we take the freedom God made us with and use it for tragedy?” – Steve Deace THIS is the column I’ve been putting off. Through personal experience, I’ve been forced to study the subject of mass shooters. I knew one. I even traveled with him to events three times and shared motel rooms with him. In the middle of March 2005, he shot and killed seven of my close friends and himself during a […]
The year the tree trimmer gave the commencement address at Yale
(Copyright 05-12-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) Y’ALL probably wonder what I’m doing up here, eh? Well, all the invited speakers got rejected by the cancel culture, and I said I could fill in today and Yale was really hard up for a speaker, so here we are. I want to open with a quotation by Al McGuire, coach of the Marquette Warriors (if I can say that): “I think everyone should go to college . . . and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they would really be educated.” Ironically, many of […]
April Fool! Great minds think alike, but so do small ones
(Copyright 04-03-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Who’s April? Who’s May? Who’s June?” – Rodney Dangerfield’s wife (looking at his day planner) GOD WILL HAVE A HAND IN THE 2016 ELECTION, but He may be writing a parody. Speaking of writers, Dan Popp said (2/12/16): “Is it just me, or . . . does it seem to you like the whole world lost 20 IQ points overnight? . . Government incompetence, destructive as it is, is a side issue. The main problem in Washington is lawlessness. I don’t expect government to do well things it isn’t supposed to do at all . […]
‘The apostle Paul walks into a bar’ (an oldie but goodie)
(Copyright 03-24-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) THREE DAYS before Christmas, I walked into a bar. I looked around, but no one was there, though the Packers were playing to a full house. After awhile a bartender appeared, all bubbly and bright, and I ordered a beer. As she popped the top, a stranger came in, dusting off snow, kind of nondescript. He had nary a smile, and for some reason he seemed older than he looked (though I’m not too good at judging the cover of a book). I SAID “HOWDY” and he said “Shalom, or, that is to say, […]
Greatest quotations by the greatest liberals (of all time?)
(Copyright 03-12-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Sometimes I think the world is going crazy. The rest of the time I KNOW it.” – BT magazine CHOOSING THE BEST NIHILIST QUOTATIONS OF ALL TIME ISN’T EASY, but here goes nothing: “The era of big government is over.” – Wm. Jefferson Blythe Clinton “No more deficits; no more debt.” – Nancy Pelosi (2006?) “We have beaten the business cycle.” – WJBC “We have to pass it so we can find out what’s in it.” – Nancy Pelosi (2009) “Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.” – Keith Olbermann “This is […]
There isn’t much difference between slaughter and laughter
(Copyright 03-04-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) WAR IS RAW SPELLED BACKWARDS. – CD Borrowed: My advice to Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes from my dad: “Don’t read your own press and never drink your own tubwater.” Jim Croce said it best: “You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit in the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the Ol’ Lone Ranger . . . ” and you don’t mess around with Trump! YOU WOULD THINK that everyone would prefer peace, but that’s not the case. The following is from “Eisenhower in War and Peace,” by Jean Edward Smith: After the death of […]
Only God can make America great now (and the jury is out on that)
(Copyright 2022) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Even Trump himself has tried to warn his worshippers that the only savior of anyone and any country is God and NOT him! He has come straight out and told people this truth!” – posted on Facebook by a friend. FROM WHAT does this country most desperately need to be saved? I’m dipping into my Facebook scroll today. Here’s one example: “Their minds belong to us and they’ll learn what we want ’em to learn; forget the parents.” – a public school teacher. More examples, regarding “wokeness”: “People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much […]
Letter
Letter from Curtis Dahlgren (April 15, 2023) Thanks for publishing. We learned at our own pace. Not held back by slow learners. Thanks for the prayers for Dawn.
A column for the ages (“powerful women”?)
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.” – unknown I KNEW THE VIRGIN MARY. The virgin Mary was a friend of mine. You’re no virgin Mary.” I knew William and Mary. William and Mary were friends of mine. You’re no Queen Mary. I knew Queen Elizabeth. She was a friend of mine. You’re no Queen Elizabeth.” I knew Betsy Ross. Betsy Ross was a friend of mine. You’re no Betsy Ross. I knew Dolly Madison. Dolly Madison was a friend of mine. You’re no Dolly Madison. I knew Mary Todd Lincoln. She was a friend of mine. […]
Memories of a one-room country school (REAL education)
(Copyright 2022) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “A powerful, radical left-wing clerisy is bent on destroying what every past generation would have understood to be the central purpose of education – that is, allowing (in the words of Edmund Burke) individuals to ‘avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages.’” – Lady Margaret Thatcher IN his first inaugural address, James Monroe said, “Had the people of the United States been educated in different principles, had they been less intelligent, less independent, or less virtuous, can it be believed that we should have maintained the same steady […]
Letter
Letter from Curtis Dahlgren (April 3, 2023) Thanks for publishing.
Letter
Letter from Curtis Dahlgren (March 27, 2023) Thanks for publishing. Like the Hi all column too.
Aunt Jemima’s pancakes or Uncle Joe’s fentanyl? Saw an overdosed guy
(Copyright 2022) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The other day I was in Madison (Moscow-on-the-Yahara) less than half an hour before seeing a drug overdose ‘victim.’” – from my Facebook page. THAT WAS A FIRST FOR ME. I’ve heard of celebrities dying with their head in a toilet, but this guy had his head in a bathroom sink at an Arby’s. He seemed alive because he was standing up, sort of. Another customer reported him to the manager, and before we left the police, and an ambulance were there. I don’t know if they were administering Narcan or waiting for the […]
Letter
Letter from Curtis Dahlgren (February 18, 2023) Thanks, I got a kick out of reading another one I had forgotten. Think I’ll repost it at Renew America.
A November to Remember? A great spiritual awakening, more than political?
(Copyright 2022) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” – Isaiah I DON’T KNOW if we’ll live to see the Second Coming, but I do know that America is in deep doo-doo, and is in dire need of another Great Awakening. I hope to live to see that one. Maybe it will begin this November. From Wikipedia: Great Awakening refers to a number of periods of religious revival in American Christian history. Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century. Each of […]
Getting OUR “tracks” back on track too
(Copyright 2022) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) NEEDLESS TO SAY, the Democrats think they are our leftward angels. Mitt, Liz, and the never-Trumpers are too smug by half. I asked a guy if he was a Trump fan and he said, “I’m not a fan of anybody.” There’s a little libertarian smugness in that tack too. Likewise self-righteous Christians who think their hands are too clean and pure to touch a ballot on election day. That attitude is killing us. That’s a long way of saying I hope GOP voters have purged out any sense of smugness from our thoughts, words, or […]
January 6th “justice” vs. BLM-ANTIFA violence; a look back
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Right makes might.” – Abraham Lincoln [an excerpt from my Jan 4th column, 2021] A WEEK FOR THE AGES. One for the history books. It’s 2:22 a.m. and I’m on my second cup of coffee. I started writing at bar time. Last call for common sense. I haven’t had a drink to drop. Seriously, convoys of concerned citizens are on the way from the Left coast to Washington DC. Wonder what awaits them there. Roadblocks? Antifa? They will surely be baited by the Lefties! I just hope there are no John Browns who could snap back.WE […]
The fine art of modesty: Lost forever, Miley?
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Warning: Portions of the following program may destroy what little faith you have left in human nature.” – National Review cartoon (1/26/96) NO WONDER this country has to spend millions of dollars on a little blue pill; every checkout counter in the country is wall-papered with sex. We walk by it without even being affected one bit. And since when is that a good thing? The publishers of the celeb/pop-cult magazines won’t understand a single word of this column, but before I go too far, let’s define three words: modesty, prude, and jaded. From Old French, […]
Letter
Letter from Curtis Dahlgren (December 29, 2022) Thanks for publishing. Good!
‘Don’t weep for the dead; weep for the living.’ – Jeremiah
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “THE Lord used more ink on the trials of Job than the glories of Solomon,” someone said. IN OTHER WORDS, we need to understand why we are living at such a time as this, why things happen, or, what’s the root cause of all the grief. Joe Biden is a symptom, not the original sin. I hate to be the one to point out the obvious, but there are some challenging times ahead of us. Ignorance of the near future is the worst ignorance of all. In 1860, the Rebs down south overran their headlights […]
An open letter to generation Y and Z: Smarty-pants on fire
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) ” . . appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe for the rectitude of our intentions . . “ – signers of the Declaration of Independence IT”S ONE half hour past bar time. Me, I went to bed early and got up for my first cup of coffee at 1:30 a.m.! Insomnia lets you throw another log on the fire, go to the bathroom, and get a head start on the day’s duties. “In the U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues.” – headline by Pew Research Center, 10-17-19 You like polls? Here’s a poll for you: Only […]
‘God bless America?’ Why should he?
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “I know that the Lord will heal this land because God is not done with America yet.” –Mike Pence (DECISION magazine, March 2022) “YET” is the operative word there. Ronald Reagan said that status quo is “the Latin word for the mess we’re in.” As many people have said in different ways: “If you are content with the status quo, are you out of your mind?” If you still don’t understand what the root problem is, especially now, you’ll probably never get it. The tit-for-tat in Ukraine could ignite World War III. We’re already losing 100,000 of our […]
Do you feel safer than you did in the 1950s?
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “We are safer now than we were in the fifties.” – lady on a Facebook thread DON’T START WITH ME, MA’AM. I can count about a dozen neighbors and brethren who have been murdered in recent decades, and I’ve lived in the country almost all my life. Jefferson County, Wisconsin didn’t have one homicide in the decade of the 50s. Didn’t you hear about 55 people getting shot in Chicago alone over Labor Day, ma’am? No one is saying that the olden days were perfect, but there are factual statistics on divorce, births out of wedlock, […]
Letters
Letter from Anonymous & Letter from Curtis Dahlgren Letter from Anonymous (October 1, 2022)Please keep this email private. The following is not meant to criticize, because I think the work you are doing is worthwhile to some individuals.However, I doubt that many folks who read the newsletter are able to discern between correct and incorrect biblical truth (as you assume), especially when the scattered assemblies of the elect are dysfunctional at best, with each having very different views on basic biblical teachings (including myself). In my view the Iron Sharping Iron section is counterproductive and engenders animosity and strife between individuals. Having said […]
The commencement address you didn’t get to hear this year — YET
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Welcome to the real world.” — someone once said EVER SINCE THE FIRST DAY YOU ENTERED 4-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTEN, you have been given the impression that you are the world’s Hope for the Future. HA! You guys have been told that you are the most intelligent, the best-educated — the most highly evolved — generation in American history. WHAT A CROCK! What would your teachers know about American history? They’ve never heard of such a thing. You guys wouldn’t even be able to pass an eighth-grade graduation test from a one-room country school in the 1880s! Half […]
Letter
Letter from Curtis Dahlgren (September 17, 2022) Thanks for the posting.
Back-to-school special: Pagan green religions won’t ‘save the planet’
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The reason there’s pollution in the world is because the Bible says, ‘Subdue the earth.’” – UW-Madison landscaping professor on the first day of class in 1970 (something was lost in his translation, like “Dress and keep it”). IN 1960 (I was at the Kremlin-on-Mendota two times) an economics professor at the UW urged me to stay in college, but many of the professors were already too liberal for my taste (climbing trees was more to my taste). Parents, you have “got” to prepare your kids for the attempted brainwashing before it’s too late! Common […]
Ask for the old ways, wherein is life
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but what we ought to avoid.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset “A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything” … “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” … “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise […]
The Christian Menace and the Communist Responsibility
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “In the very early days we saw the Communist regime establish an immediate kinship with people of a criminal past. We saw it use for its purposes only the dark elements who, in a cultural society, hide themselves in the back alleys of a community, men whose lives are a mass of lies, deceit, treachery, and murder. Those with this sinister background are useful tools in the Communist system. This rule started immediately to deform the very substance of spiritual and cultural life. Education was made into something ridiculous, a mechanism for political ideology […]
Letters
Letters by Curtis Dahlgren & Steven Blackledge Letter from Curtis Dahlgren (July 30, 2022)Thanks for the reposting of another column. Hope you’re feeling better than last week. Letter from Steven Blackledge (July 30, 2022)I cannot remember if I had written you to give my condolences for the loss of your dog Bubbles… Losing pets is very difficult… Especially if you have had them for a while as you well know… Hope all went well for Darwin on his trip to bury Bubbles… It is interesting how God only allows for dogs to live on average a decade plus… Depending on […]
Stand athwart history and yell stop!
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Over the last [year], Americans have lived through what is arguably the most consequential period of government malfeasance in U.S. history. Public officials’ overreaction to the novel coronavirus put American cities into a coma; those same officials’ passivity in the face of widespread rioting threatens to deliver the coup de grace.” – Heather MacDonald, Imprimis (May-June 2020) CALL IT MALPRACTICE by the governors’ mansions and well-to-do mayors. Their “concern for human life” rings hollow. In Italy, the median age for virus fatalities was 80, and the Left had legalized assisted suicide on our Left coast. […]
Demons + root of bitterness = many dead people
Demons + root of bitterness = many dead peoplePart 1(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The question isn’t why an all-powerful God allows tragedy to happen; the question is what is wrong with us that we take the freedom God made us with and use it for tragedy?” – Steve Deace THIS is the column I’ve been procrastinating on writing. Through personal experience, I’ve been forced to study the subject of mass shooters. I knew one. I even traveled with him to events and shared motel rooms with him. In the middle of March 2005, he shot and killed seven of […]
The 13th grade: It’s killing us
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Few in their after years have occasion to revise their college opinions.” – Thomas Jefferson AN ANALOGY THAT DESCRIBES TODAY’S YOUNG PEOPLE: “Scientists have discovered a tiny creature that lives in the lips of a North Atlantic lobster that it is unique in that its brain completely disappears at the onset of adolescence and doesn’t reappear until adulthood.” Eighteen-year-olds in college aren’t mature adults, and academia takes advantage of that fact. This is a book review of “How to Survive Your Freshman Year” by “Hundreds of College Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Who Did.”* Just in time for […]
“I was born to run,” she said (so was I)
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) NELLIE was her name, but she called me Bella. She was a little old lady from Pasadena who only drove me once a week to church. She bought me brand new for her 90th birthday. She put a gun rack in the back window for old times’ sake. She didn’t own a gun, just the gun rack. We got a lot of funny looks around town. I’m a pickup truck. Nellie had been a professional baseball player back in the fifties, one of the older members on the team, but she could still fly around […]
Hope in Spite of Us: Psalm 22, 23, 2022 and 2023
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Our fathers trusted in You. They trusted and You delivered them… Be not far from us, for trouble is near.” – Psalm 22 “I WILL FEAR NO EVIL.” – Psalm 23 The following is just a theory, but right now we could all use some faith, hope, and charity. My previous column was mostly doom and gloom but looking ahead there are two sides to the coin. Which one will prevail? It all depends. Could there possibly be a comparison between Psalm 22, 23, and 2022-2023? Or will it be a contrast if you know what […]
Cognitive disconnects: Outlandish “stuff” D-voters claim to believe
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Only a nation on its knees can stand up to its enemies.” – author unknown NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE, said a man in the early 1700s. Nothing new to see here, is there? I’ve been making a list of outlandish statements by unrepentant Biden voters, such as: “The border is not open. People still have to go through the process” [When you can wade across the Rio Grande, not row, and there is no border, it’s an open border; many just skip the “process.] “There is no connection between a bonus to […]
HEY JUDE (the real one) and the sermon notes of Enoch, seventh from Adam
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “According to the Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition, a ‘skeptic’ is ‘one who holds that there are no adequate grounds for certainty as to the truth of any proposition whatever.’” – Michael Shermer of Skeptic magazine, quoted in Time magazine, last spring “If Truth were dead, how would you know THAT?” – C. Dahlgren, 2017 THINGS JUST GET CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER (to coin a phrase). “Claim” is a favorite media word. If traditionalists “claim” something, it must be fake news, but if “Progressives” write something, the media and pop culture do not treat THEM skeptically. Shermer cites The Miracle Myth, a 2016 book by a University […]
Hammer and Tickle’ by Ben Lewis, book review (a great book!)
Part 1(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, “1984” The truth is forbidden now; it is expelled and cancelled.All doors and windows are closed to it now,But anecdotes go out amongst the people,Finding their way to the soul thru the eyes and the ears.The jokes may not reach our grandkids,But future historians will dig thru the archives, Comparing “great men” with our trail of anger, laughter, and tears. -paraphrased from “Impatience,” written in 1955 by a survivor of Siberian exile […]
“GAMES PEOPLE PLAY” and why the English capitalized the word “I”
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “I AM, said I, to no one there.” – Neil Diamond “I AM THAT I AM.” – God (to Moses, 1491 B.C.) “God forgives; man, sometimes forgives; nature never forgives.” – author unknown TO ME, “I” STANDS FOR THE “INDIVIDUAL” – the right to what’s in your heart. Down through history no group on earth has done more for the freedom of the individual than the English-speaking peoples. Contrary to what you may have been told in college, no one has done more to fight the oppression of the individual. COINCIDENCE? I think NOT! The German word for […]
Forty-three kings and then came disaster!
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “We wrestle against wicked spirits in high places.” ‘ Saul of Tarsus My subject today is the 43 kings of Israel and Israel-Judah, the big question being: “Does history repeat itself?” SAUL ruled Israel for 40 years. David ruled for 40 years. Solomon for 40 years. Then the nation was divided literally in two. David’s line came to rule ‘ loosely speaking ‘ the southern kingdom of Judah. The northern ten tribes seceded ‘ over taxation ‘ and formed the House of Israel. Their first king set up not one but two golden calves. No matter the […]
America’s nervous breakdown: Deviltry gets a smack-down
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “We’re going insane, folks. We’re literally being swept up by the insane and being told we have to join them in their insanity… When there are no objective facts, when everything is up for dispute, when things that are undeniably fact are not permitted to be, we have a problem.” – Rush Limbaugh RUSH IS NOT OUT ON A LIMB ALL ALONE. In the mouth of two or three witnesses, a thing is established: “We are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that’s about to hijack your birthright to think and […]