Whitney Houston and the “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” Film
My wife and I went to see the film “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” on January 11, 2023. Both of us are great admirers of the late Whitney Houston and were anxious to finally get to view a biopic of her life. The film was released on December 23, 2022, by Sony Pictures. Kasi Lemmons…
SAVING WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM PAGAN IDEOLOGIES
Western civilization is undergoing an existential crisis that had its origins several decades ago and that threatens its own survival. The trigger for this crisis is a war between the secularist and Christian values of the Judeo-Christian culture. The former treats religion as the “opium of the masses” and its teachings as “bourgeois values” –…
A FOCUS ON RELIGION, NOT POLITICS
A very devout Catholic acquaintance from a Northeastern state asked me recently to refrain from e-mailing her my articles because she had taken a hiatus from politics and my articles dwelled in politics. Is she right or not with her decision? I’d like to address first an issue that has been in my mind since…
The Right Economic Model for the United States
The concept of the “Golden Rule” does not appear anywhere in the Bible. But many extrapolate its meaning from Christ’s Sermon on the Mountain when he said: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.” (Matthew 7:12) It’s with this rule in mind that I’d like to address an…
BRINGING UNITY TO THE UNITED STATES
I was moved by a Facebook post from a friend this week where she reached out to her friends’ better angels and asked them to look after each other in today’s environment, instead of tearing each other down. I’m sure that her motives were well-intentioned, but her aspiration is unrealistic. And here is the reason…
WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN?
The main reason for my parents deciding to emigrate to the United States was when the Communist Cuban authorities passed an edict requiring parents to send their children to public schools — with prison time authorized for noncompliance. The government authorities had closed all private and religious schools with the goal of having a monopoly…
SAVING OUR COUNTRY FROM THE ELITES
The United States is suffering a grave illness lately – not one caused by COVID-19. It is a self-made virus that entails our reliance on the opinions of the elites. These elites are the ones who refuse to accept absolute standards of right and wrong. To them, good and evil becomes an exercise in relativism. …
DEMOCRATS’ FAILURE TO DELIVER FOR MINORITIES AND WOMEN
When I look at the crisis emanating from illegal aliens trying to cross our southern border, I wonder whether the Biden-Harris Administration is guilty of sheer incompetence or of having a hidden agenda. The number of illegal encounters handled by border security agents has reached over 2 million since Biden reached the Oval Office, and…
MI TRAYECTORIA EN LLEGAR A SER UN ESTADOUNIDENSE
No es raro que las personas que llegan a los Estados Unidos de diferentes países pasen por un doloroso proceso de aculturación. El tiempo que toma se basa en las experiencias individuales y, por supuesto, en el tipo de personalidad de cada uno: lleva más tiempo para los introvertidos. Teniendo en cuenta que viví este…
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA – FRIEND OR FOE?
British statesman Sir Winston Churchill once declared that “the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” I agree with that capitalism, unlike any other economic system in the world, has lifted billions of people out of poverty and provided much hope…
Loading…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Follow My Blog
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.
Jorge E. Ponce 