Progress in race relations started in baseball
(Copyright 11-15-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) Around every bend he confronted bigotry – and he did so with amazing grace, endearing dignity, and old-school wisdom.” – Douglas Brinkley, on “I Had a Hammer” I’M READING THE Hank Aaron story, another of my one dollar purchases from a local library. When Hank was a boy in […]
Drunk on power, the power of lies (but will it work this time?)
(Copyright 11-05-2024) 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 […]
What’s really at stake: freedom of the individual versus Collectivism
(Copyright 10-31-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The spark from heaven falls. Who picks it up? The crowd? Never. The individual? Always.” – Arthur J. Balfour EXCERPTS from an article I’ve been saving for over 60 years, by Charles B. Shuman, American Farm Bureau president: “History is the record of man’s struggle to either obtain or to […]
Why God allows such things to happen (an annual encore column)
(Copyright 10-27-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The Truth is stranger than fiction,” they say. “But not as popular.” EVER BEEN SO NUMB THAT YOU COULDN’T SHED A TEAR? I’m no stranger to pain either, but I’ve recently talked to two elderly men who claim they don’t believe in God. One of them used to – […]
Column written in the middle of the night
(Copyright 10-19-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Never toss away anything you get up to write in the middle of the night.” – anon KALAMITY HARRIS identifies as a super hero, but she can’t find a phone booth. She can’t wait to be in charge of the CIA, whatever that is. Generally speaking, she doesn’t speak like a […]
Regarding envy and the most brilliant thoughts of all time
(Copyright 10-15-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Man exploits man. Under Communism, it’s just the opposite.” — Russian saying THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IS NOT JUST A CLICHE. For students of history, it’s a regular nightmare. There was a 100-year span of time between the 1860s hippies in Russia and our own 1960s hippies. While the latter […]
Will there be better times, or what? Signs of hope
(Copyright 10-02-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) A LOOK BACK AT MY FIRST COLUMN OF 2024 (based on my last column of 2022): The theme of Psalm 22 is an awakening (genuine wokeness). The theme of Psalm 23 is the fruits of such a turn-around. “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not lack. He leadeth […]
Wicked Spirits v. the Holy Spirit (and miracles)
(Copyright 09-19-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) LEMME JUST start by saying I was born in a lower middle-class family. We had very little spending money and I still have most of it. I used to buy cars for 50 bucks. I once drove from Wisconsin to southern Georgia and back on $14 worth of […]
My most unusual column: Why the English capitalized the word “I”
(Copyright 09-07-2024) 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 […]
The Ides of August again – College orientation week
(Copyright 08-21-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it and at whom it is aimed.” – Josef Stalin TOO MUCH OF HIGHER EDUCATION IS AIMED AT THE […]
God’s ‘practical joke’ on Jew haters
(Copyright 2023) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) From AmericanWireNews: “A Jewish high school teacher in Queens was terrorized by a mob of left-wing students who reacted with outrage after she attended a pro-Israel rally last weekend, a terrifying incident that left her badly shaken. The target of the ‘radicalized’ kids was forced to hide for […]
What the world needs now is a Laugh-in, Goldie
(Copyright 08-12-2024) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) A book review: There’s no joy in Mudville and there’s no laughter in the Capitol building. For some people, politics is the end of the world (and it could be), but during the days of Reagan, Dole, and Tip O’Neil, it wasn’t always this way. It’s getting bitter […]
Critical Race “Theory” = “Divide and conquer”
(Copyright 2021) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) WHEN “DIVIDE AND CONQUER” was invented thousands of years ago, Satan probably already had in mind CRT 2021. It is the “DIVIDE” half of the equation. “CONQUER” follows soon after. And there are no “winners” in spiritual wars. Not on this side of Kingdom Come. The essence of […]
A funny thing happened on the way to Damascus
(Copyright 2023) 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 a while a bartender appeared, all bubbly and bright, and I ordered a beer. As she popped the top, a stranger […]
10 typical Americans compared to the proverbial 10 virgins
(Copyright 2023) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins who went forth to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were wise and five of them were foolish. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. At midnight a cry was made, ‘Go out to meet […]
‘Inside American Education;’ beware professional liars
(Copyright 2023) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) ‘“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” – Victor Hugo A book review: Thomas Sowell’s “lnside American Education”: “For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach, those of […]
What’s worse, Aunt Jemima’s picture, Hunter’s crack or Uncle Joe’s fentanyl from China?
(Copyright 2023) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The other day I was in Madison (Moscow-on-the-Yahara) less than half an hour before seeing a case of drug overdose.” -from my Facebook page, August 2022 THAT WAS A FIRST FOR ME. I’ve heard of celebrities dying with their head in a toilet, but this guy had his head […]
School daze; beware professional liars
(Copyright 2023) 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 […]
The real Tom Jefferson
(Copyright 2023) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) Much of the “modern” Jefferson image was formed over 200 years ago by his political enemies. For example, the offspring-by-Sally Hemings rumor was started for the 1800 election campaign. Guides at Monticello still spread that old gossip. DNA never actually nailed an individual – only someone from the […]
School daze again. Beware professional liars!
(Copyright 2023) 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 […]
Talking 2017 or what? Déjà vu all over again
(Copyright 2022) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “The ruler was a strong leader who brought renewed wealth and power to the nation. He restored the border. He made new trade possible, and money flowed into the country from abroad.” – Beyond Today magazine, January 2017 BUT A HICK OUT IN THE STICKS had a different message […]
Tis the season for vote buying and lying; smarty pants on fire
(Copyright) 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.” – […]
The War on Dissent: Fibs, spin, statistics, and pure fiction
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “What need has a god of a star ship?” – Hollywood “What need has ‘settled science’ of a Public Relations firm?” – C. Dahlgren WAR ON DISSENT: Russia, Venezuela, the Middle East, and Washington DC. Left-wing causes are all into “minimizing.” Lying becomes misspeaking; spin becomes misremembering; statistics are tools for […]
The Power of the Pen over “the poison in the pot”
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Proclaim liberty throughout the Land . . [but] When a pundit makes a prediction, and it doesn’t come to pass, the prophet has spoken presumptuously. So don’t listen to him anymore.” – Moses (1300s BC) “Happy are the people who don’t take the advice of the ungodly. They shall be […]
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 […]