Ken's Comments

Rod Dreher wrote an article published in The American Conservative titled "What's Happening To Villanova."*  Mr. Dreher provides a copy of a letter published by Father President Peter Donohue and then Mr. Dreher goes on to rip into the University because of the letter. If the only evidence is what is said in Father Peter's message, and that is the only evidence Mr. Dreher offers, then I have to disagree with Mr. Dreher's interpretation.  Here is an alternative view of what Father Peter said:   - We want Villanova to be antiracist.  Good.  I'm against racism and I'm glad Villanova is too. - Antiracist means justice and equity for everyone.  I really like that comment.  When the phrase "Black Lives Matter" first became popular didn't many people (including myself at the time) respond, "All Lives Matter."  Here we have Father Peter saying antiracist doesn't mean we should try to protect one group of people, it means we should try t

It has only taken 60 days to see the difference in the Biden Administration's relations with China and Russia versus the Trump Administration's relations. For four years, we heard that President Trump was too nice to dictators, referring in particular to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.  When Trump met the leaders he was cordial and friendly and did nothing to embarrass them publicly.  This was met with great criticism and, on at least one occasion, it was justified such as President Trump's fumbling of a question about Russia's interference in the 2016 election.   On the other hand, while President Trump was cordial to these leaders, the Trump Administration did things the Obama Administration didn't to curtail Russian expansionism.  The Obama Administration refused to provide military weapons to the Ukraine to help them fight the Russians invading their country, the Trump Administration delivered that aid.  Where President Obama drew a line in the sand when asked wh

 Today's headline - "Ford slammed by Union for Plans to Move New Model Production to Mexico." The test for President Biden: What is he going to do about it? During the Trump Administration, a similar event occurred.  GM started scaling back it's operations at the Lordstown Ohio plant and progressively reduced production there until it was ready to close the facility. President Trump condemned the automaker and threatened them with tariffs if they moved production to another country. The outcome was the re-opening of the Lordsville Plant under a new company that will manufacture electric pickup trucks.  This was done with assistance from the Trump Administration, as credited by individuals saying in Trump advertisements that the plant would have been closed for good without Trump's help. Now Ford announced it is moving production of a next generation model from its plant in Avon Lake, Ohio.  They are leaving behind production of pickup trucks, but that's curren

Some are talking about how the Presidential Election was stolen by the Democrats.  Others criticize those folks as peddling false conspiracy theories.  Just stop.  All of you - just stop. Can't you see our country is suffering not just because of that debate but because you're missing the more important issue that needs to be addressed. The Election is over, Joe Biden is President.  But the way the election was run has left our country badly divided and needing healing.  It's time to change the questions being discussed to ones whose answers can unite the country. Try these questions on for size. 1. Is it good for the United States of America that as many as 74 million people question the integrity of the last election? Can anyone honestly answer "yes" to that question?  Can anyone honestly say it's good that tens of millions think the election was fixed?  Is having doubts about the integrity of our election processes  good for our country? 2. If you believe,