Curtis Dahlgren column
Curtis Dahlgren is semi-retired in southern Wisconsin, and is the author of "Massey-Harris 101." His career has had some rough similarities to one of his favorite writers, Ferrar Fenton. In the intro to The Fenton Bible, Fenton said:
"I was in '53 a young student in a course of education for an entirely literary career, but with a wider basis of study than is usual. . . . In commerce my life has been passed. . . . Indeed, I hold my commercial experience to have been my most important field of education, divinely prepared to fit me to be a competent translator of the Bible, for it taught me what men are and upon what motives they act, and by what influences they are controlled. Had I, on the other hand, lived the life of a Collegiate Professor, shut up in the narrow walls of a library, I consider that I should have had my knowledge of mankind so confined to glancing through a 'peep-hole' as to make me totally unfit for [my life's work]."
In 1971-72 Curtis did some writing for the Badger Herald and he is listed as a University of Wisconsin-Madison "alumnus" (loosely speaking, along with a few other drop-outs including John Muir, Charles Lindbergh, Frank Lloyd Wright and Dick Cheney). [He writes humor, too.]
"I was in '53 a young student in a course of education for an entirely literary career, but with a wider basis of study than is usual. . . . In commerce my life has been passed. . . . Indeed, I hold my commercial experience to have been my most important field of education, divinely prepared to fit me to be a competent translator of the Bible, for it taught me what men are and upon what motives they act, and by what influences they are controlled. Had I, on the other hand, lived the life of a Collegiate Professor, shut up in the narrow walls of a library, I consider that I should have had my knowledge of mankind so confined to glancing through a 'peep-hole' as to make me totally unfit for [my life's work]."
In 1971-72 Curtis did some writing for the Badger Herald and he is listed as a University of Wisconsin-Madison "alumnus" (loosely speaking, along with a few other drop-outs including John Muir, Charles Lindbergh, Frank Lloyd Wright and Dick Cheney). [He writes humor, too.]
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November 15, 2024
[published January 10, 2020]
Around every bend he confronted bigotry – and he did so with amazing grace, endearing dignity, and old-school wisdom." – . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 5, 2024
(Republished from November 2, 2016, and October 11, 2020)
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 1, 2024
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 27, 2024
[originally May 25, 2013]
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 19, 2024
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 15, 2024
Reprinted from July 18, 2010
"Man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite." — Russian saying
THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IS NOT JUST A . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 4, 2024
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 19, 2024
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 7, 2024
[Republished from May 6, 2019. Individualism is endangered in 2024]
"I AM, said I, to no one there." – Neil Diamond
"I AM THAT I AM." – God (to Moses, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 21, 2024
(Note: Republished from August 14, 2020)
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 12, 2024
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) . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 1, 2024
(NOTE: I posted this column on February 22, 2023 and reposted it July 2023. It is worth rereading, or reading if you missed it.)
"Our fathers trusted in You. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 24, 2024
“It used to be you’d come home from work and you’d say Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, or something funny is on TV tonight. But when you write a script and it . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 15, 2024
“The American dream has become a nightmare.” – Reubin Askew, DNC keynote speaker, 1972
THE BARB was aimed at the Republican Administration, but in a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 8, 2024
“Jewish humor is gentle, philosophical, and illogical.” – Jim Bishop, 1970s
ORIGINALLY, I had a different topic in mind, but I changed my mind after . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 29, 2024
“I am humbly grateful for a partial awakening, but the country is still in deep doodoo. We need the Third Great Awakening.” – one of my Facebook posts
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 21, 2024
Q: Before the Revolution, how did the Russian people endure life under the Tsar?
A: They just thought about what life would be like afterwards, and then they . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 6, 2024
(Note: originally published January 22, 2019)
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education." – Victor Hugo
"Wisdom is the power to see . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 23, 2024
Reprinted from May 21, 2014
"The Christian blood you shed is the seed you sow; it springs from the earth again and fructifies the more." -Tertullian (155-222 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 15, 2024
Previously published May 14, 2022; adapted from my 5-24-18 column.
Y'ALL probably wonder what I'm doing up here, eh? Well, all the invited speakers got . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 10, 2024
I LEARNED ABOUT WRITING by reading two favorite columnists, Jim Murray on sports, and Jenkin Lloyd Jones on current events. Jones frequently sighed and cried, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 26, 2024
Republished from July 26, 2019
"Laughter is better than complaining" – rewriting a paraphrase of "Anger is better than laughter," which in the King James . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 16, 2024
Originally published on November 30, 2015
[MANY YEARS FROM NOW, to coin a phrase, people will still be talking about these awful times – not so much awful . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 29, 2024
TO THIS DAY some people think their friendly local public school is not sexualizing very young children, robbing them of innocence, and messing up their . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 14, 2024
DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT PRIVILEGE. We've all been dissed in one way or another. My dad and I were sitting at the counter. It's a Norwegian town, or was. The guy . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 7, 2024
Note: Previously published March 3, 2018
"At some point, there's going to be enough pressure that it is just going to be too embarrassing to believe in God." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 24, 2024
(Republished from November 2, 2016, and October 11, 2020)
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 9, 2024
Republished from December 22, 2017
"Religion is the opium of the people [the masses]." – Karl Marx (Critique of Hegelian Philosophy, 1844)
"Religia . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 23, 2024
I was posting about this subject on Facebook this morning anyway, so I decided to include some of the comments here. For example:
"The Diabolical Nature of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 10, 2024
AS A PUBLIC SERVICE to those who do not want our children reciting the pledge of allegiance, they'll love this one:
"We pledge allegiance to the blue states . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 4, 2024
AN EXCERPT FROM MY DECEMBER 31, 2022,
COLUMN:
The theme of Psalm 22 is an awakening (genuine wokeness). The theme of Psalm 23 is the fruits of such a turn . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 21, 2023
"To bless people in same-sex couples without giving the impression that the Church is not validating their sexual activity is a charade. No one is fooled . . . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 12, 2023
Adapted from an August 2022 column
"The other day I was in Madison (Moscow-on-the-Yahara) less than half an hour before seeing a case of drug overdose." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 10, 2023
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 29, 2023
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 22, 2023
There are some sentences that should never be completed:
"America has been good to us, but..."
"Thanks for the history lesson, but..."
"Public . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 12, 2023
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 30, 2023
Note: Republished from September 2, 2010
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." — Thomas Paine, c. 1774
IT'S NO SECRET THAT OUR . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 20, 2023
"My dad is something else, I thought." – Claudia Williams, "Ted Williams, My Father," HarperCollins 2014
TED WILLIAMS WAS 53 when Claudia was born. She . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 11, 2023
Originally published on November 30, 2015
[MANY YEARS FROM NOW, to coin a phrase, people will still be talking about these awful times – not so much awful . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 3, 2023
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 20, 2023
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 11, 2023
(Republished from 9-04-22)
"The reason there's pollution in the world is because the Bible says, 'Subdue the earth.'" – UW-Madison landscaping professor on . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 31, 2023
"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 bee fostered among . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 15, 2023
(Note: Republished from August 14, 2020)
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 8, 2023
Note: Republished from September 2, 2010
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." — Thomas Paine, c. 1774
IT'S NO SECRET THAT OUR . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 28, 2023
(NOTE: I posted this column on February 22, 2023. With the movie "Sound of Freedom," timing is everything, and this is a good time republish a best-of..)
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 4, 2023
HALELULIA, another fourth of July! This will be a short column because l broke left arm and can't type. I just want to say thanks to those who read my previous . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 9, 2023
Originally published March 27, 2013)
"We are now in Connecticut, and never out of sight of a house. I feel as if there had been religion in this country once . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 4, 2023
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your own eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." – George Orwell, "1984"
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 28, 2023
[Originally published November 9, 2012]
"A nation that expects to be ignorant and free is a nation that never was and never will be." — T. Jefferson
A . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 16, 2023
[Previously published May 14, 2022; adapted from my 5-24-18 column.]
Y"ALL probably wonder what I'm doing up here, eh? Well, all the invited speakers got . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 9, 2023
"Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in every garden." – UPmag.net
GRADUATES, OUTWARD BOUND, AND SNOWFLAKES: I come not to praise you. I come to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 27, 2023
[I thought it would be interesting to repost the column I wrote one month after Trump beat Hillary.]
"Many college grads are merely drugged with small doses . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 19, 2023
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt . . a usurper is soon found." – President Monroe's first inaugural address
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 13, 2023
[Originally published May 19, 2009]
"What it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and . . Rove are going to be executed . . . I don't know how I feel . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 2, 2023
[This is an adaptation of a 2017 column that ought to be an annual classic.]
"People who travel the high road of humility in Washington don't have to worry . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 22, 2023
(Note: Originally published on July 20, 2022)
"The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but what we ought to avoid." – Jose Ortega y Gasset
"A . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 4, 2023
NOTE: It might be time to republish this, with Purim coming up.
"The ruler was a strong leader who brought renewed wealth and power to the nation. He . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 22, 2023
NOTE: I posted this column a little over a year ago. In light of prayer revival meeting at Asbury University in Kentucky, it is time to republish it.
"Our . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 13, 2023
"A lot of people believe in the Christ, but not as many have met Him," someone said.
I HAVE A LOT OF NEW READERS HERE AND ON FACEBOOK, SO HERE'S AN OLDIE BUT . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 2, 2023
[published January 22, 2019]
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education." – Victor Hugo
"Wisdom is the power to see behind a tree." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 18, 2023
Note: Republished from May 20, 2022
"Jokes, or anekdoty, are the home-made glue that binds together all Soviet citizens in their dislike for the empty . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 8, 2023
"If you cannot question it, it's not science. It's propaganda." – meme
ON WISCONSIN magazine, Spring 2020, published an article, "There's no war on Science . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 30, 2022
(Republished from January 31, 2022)
"Our fathers trusted in You. They trusted and You delivered them.... Be not far from us, for trouble is near." – Psalm . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 21, 2022
"If there were nothing else in my life to prove the existence of an Almighty and Merciful God, the events of the next 24 hours did it." – Dwight D. Eisenhower . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 12, 2022
Republished from August 9, 2006
"These are the times that try men's souls." —T. Paine
KING GEORGE III of England eventually went mad. You'd probably go . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 4, 2022
"The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting." – George Orwell
Academania frown upon the greatest writers who ever lived. I call . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 27, 2022
(Note: Republished from October 22, 2016)
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers." – unknown
I KNEW THE VIRGIN MARY. The . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 20, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 14, 2022
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried." – Winston Churchill
NO, this is not another election . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 2, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 24, 2022
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 15, 2022
". . . appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe for the rectitude of our intentions . . ." – signers of the Declaration of Independence
[Reposted . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 3, 2022
"He kept us out of war." – Woodrow Wilson reelection slogan, 1916
RONALD REAGAN said that none of the wars during his lifetime were started because . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 23, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 12, 2022
(Republished from November 2, 2016, and October 11, 2020)
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 4, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 24, 2022
Republished
"If our government is not going to hold our taxpayer-supported academic institutions accountable, then we must." — Chuck Norris ("Black Belt . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 15, 2022
(Note: Republished from August 14, 2020)
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 11, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 3, 2022
"Right makes might." – Abraham Lincoln
[an excerpt from my Jan. 4, 2021, column]
A WEEK FOR THE AGES. One for the history books. It's 2:22 a.m. and I'm . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 20, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 11, 2022
Note: Originally published on January 8, 2022
"Only a nation on its knees can stand up to its enemies." – author unknown
NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 29, 2022
Note: Republished from October 1, 2013 and April 5, 2021
"Warning: Portions of the following program may destroy what little faith you have left in human . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 23, 2022
(Note: Previously published on April 26, 2022)
"THE Lord used more ink on the trials of Job than the glories of Solomon," someone said.
IN OTHER WORDS, we . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 11, 2022
"Cut the days short for the elect's sake, Father." – conclusion to my previous column
I DIDN'T PLAN to post a column today, but I just wrote something . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 4, 2022
"The question isn't why an all-powerful God allow tragedy to happen; the question is what is wrong with us that we take the freedom God made us with and use it . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 20, 2022
"Jokes, or anekdoty, are the home-made glue that binds together all Soviet citizens in their dislike for the empty falsehoods of the government's long playing . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 14, 2022
[Adapted from my 5-24-18 column.]
Y"ALL probably wonder what I'm doing up here, eh? Well, all the invited speakers got rejected by the cancel culture, and I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 6, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 26, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 11, 2022
[Originally published April 28, 2021]
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 30, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 20, 2022
[Originally published October 28, 2017]
"Religion was to be replaced by the exact sciences, family life by free love, private property by collectivism . . " . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 14, 2022
(Note: From 2011, one of my most-read columns)
"Despite what some in the press may say, we who are proud to call ourselves 'conservative' are not a minority . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 27, 2022
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 21, 2022
"O that you would have hearkened unto My Commandments! Your peace would have been like a river and your godliness as the waves of the sea." – the God of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 16, 2022
"Use your freedom to put to silence the foolishness of ignorant people (and the over-educated)." – Peter (paraphrased)
THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE a very . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 31, 2022
"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." &ndash . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 29, 2022
"In the very early days we saw the Communist regime establish an immediate kiinship with people of a criminal past. We saw it use for its purposes only the dark . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 8, 2022
"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. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 30, 2021
"Right makes might." – Abraham Lincoln
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 15, 2021
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. lt was their final, most essential command."
PERSONALLY,,, l'm not 100 percent pessimistic . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 6, 2021
Note: Republished from September 9, 2009
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 22, 2021
Note: Reprinted from April 25, 2019
Grampa, tell us again about the bad old days.
Well, Ismail, the 21st century started out really, really sad, but . . . . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 15, 2021
"'According to the number of your cities your gods are" [Jeremiah said] – Billy Graham, 1957
IT'S THE IDES OF NOVEMBER. It's a cold day in Kenosha, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 6, 2021
(November 6 is the anniversary of the 1984 49-state landslide.)
"Black people don't have to be Democrats." – Chance the Rapper
The winter's passed,
The . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 27, 2021
Note: Republished from April 9, 2018
"ACCORDING TO THE Oxford English Dictionary's first definition, a 'skeptic' is 'one who holds that there are no . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 17, 2021
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" . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 8, 2021
Note: Republished from November 2, 2016, and October 11, 2020
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 28, 2021
"If we expect others to rescue our nation for us, as we go about our daily lives as mere observers to what is transpiring, or close our eyes and ears to current . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 20, 2021
"The Lord shall become king over all the earth.... Then everyone who survives of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 10, 2021
"Put not your trust in princes." – God
REGARDING THE BIDEN EDICT ON VACCINATIONS: I'm just glad l don't have a job that's on the line (one good thing . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 28, 2021
Re-published from May 23, 2015 and April 8, 2020
"We wrestle against wicked spirits in high places." ' Saul of Tarsus
My subject today is the 43 kings of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 17, 2021
Note: Previously published July 7, 2014
"What is past is prologue." – Shakespeare (engraved on the National Archives building)
WELL, WELL, WELL. When . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 5, 2021
(Note: Republished from August 14, 2020)
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 22, 2021
"Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization." – Churchill
POLITICS! The juxtaposition of opposites. Defying description, sanity, and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 13, 2021
Note: Republished from July 8, 2019
"A horrible and wonderful (astonishing) thing is done in the land; the pundits [and some pastors] preach falsely – and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 3, 2021
"Do you know where Ishpemming is?" – Nobel Prize winner Glenn Seaborg, to prestigious audiences
"IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO NEGAUNEE," he would say. The . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 26, 2021
"If you cannot question it, it's not science. It's propaganda." – meme
ON WISCONSIN magazine, Spring 2020, published an article, "There's no war on . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 18, 2021
Note: Republished from January 20, 2018
NELLIE was her name, but she called me Bella. She was a little old lady from Pasadena who only drove me once a week . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 11, 2021
(Note: Reprinted from May 6, 2019, and February 6, 2021)
"I AM, said I, to no one there." – Neil Diamond
"I AM THAT I AM." – God (to Moses, 1491 B.C.) . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 3, 2021
Note: Republished from June 24, 2015 and October 14, 2020
"We're going insane, folks. We're literally being swept up by the insane and being told we have to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 27, 2021
Note: Republished from May 29, 2010
"Welcome to the real world." — someone once said
EVER SINCE THE FIRST DAY YOU ENTERED 4-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTEN, you . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 19, 2021
Note: Republished from May 18, 2018
"Let me solemnly warn you that if you intend to accomplish anything you must take your side. There can be no halting . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 12, 2021
Note: Republished from May 12, 2021
"Proclaim liberty throughout the Land . . [but] When a pundit makes a prediction, and it doesn't come to pass, the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 5, 2021
Note: Republished from August 8, 2020
"Over the last [year], Americans have lived through what is arguably the most consequential period of government . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 28, 2021
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 20, 2021
"America, conjointly with Britain, has a very important and noble part to perform in the affairs of humanity in the near future." – Adam Rutherford, 1934
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 12, 2021
"Few in their after years have occasion to revise their college opinions." – Thomas Jefferson
AN ANALOGY THAT DESCRIBES TODAY'S YOUNG PEOPLE:
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 5, 2021
Note: Republished from October 1, 2013
"Warning: Portions of the following program may destroy what little faith you have left in human nature." – National . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 28, 2021
Note: Republished from February 28, 2015
"What need has a god of a star ship?" – Hollywood
"What need has 'settled science' of a Public Relations firm? . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 17, 2021
(Note: Republished from October 28, 2020)
"The Trump movement often is described as a 'personality cult,' which it is, in no small part." – National Review . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 11, 2021
TO THE EDITOR, NATIONAL REVIEW:
Just reread the article that was the last straw, "Has the Presidency Become Impossible?; No, but it is too hard for the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 6, 2021
Note: Republished from April 9, 2018
"According to the Oxford English Dictionary's first definition, a 'skeptic' is 'one who holds that there are no . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 5, 2021
Note: Republished from March 3, 2018
"At some point, there's going to be enough pressure that it is just going to be too embarrassing to believe in God." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 22, 2021
Note: Originally published March 13, 2019
AFTER A HARD DAY'S WRITING, I stopped at the C-store for a cup of coffee. "Do you have gas?" the clerk asked.
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 15, 2021
(Note: Republished from November 13, 2009 and October 10, 2020)
". . that eternal want of pence, which vexes public men . . "
This is truth the poet sings,
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 6, 2021
(Note: Reprinted from May 6, 2019)
"I AM, said I, to no one there." – Neil Diamond
"I AM THAT I AM." – God (to Moses, 1491 B.C.)
"God forgives; man . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 30, 2021
(Note: Republished from July 31, 2011)
"I have often thought and written that if the United States were ever to have a Caesar, a true subverter of the state, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 22, 2021
(Note: Republished from January 10, 2020)
Around every bend he confronted bigotry – and he did so with amazing grace, endearing dignity, and old-school . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 18, 2021
"The reason there's pollution in the world is because the Bible said 'Subdue the earth.'" – UW-Madison landscaping professor on the first day of class in 1970 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 10, 2021
(Note: Republished from March 2, 2010)
"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment." — Ben Franklin (1706-1790 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 4, 2021
"Right makes might." – Abraham Lincoln
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 27, 2020
Note: Republished from October 21, 2011
"How can this man know letters, having never learned? . . . Can anything good come out of Samaria?" — The Bible
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 18, 2020
Note: Republished from August 15, 2018
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 12, 2020
From ON WISCONSIN, Winter 2020:
" [A]fter the recent Black Lives Matter protests and other calls to action, UW leaders saw an opportunity to redouble their . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 2, 2020
Note: Republished from July 17, 2015
IT'S FUNNY BUT you seldom see a man of the cloth go into a saloon. I wonder why? He could probably fellowship with some . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 23, 2020
Note: Republished from November 24, 2019
SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE:
Grandpa, tell us again about the bad old days.
Well, Ismail, the 21st century started . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 16, 2020
"The poet says, 'The saddest thing about current things is remembering happier things.'" – forgot who said it (paraphrased)
THE BARN SWALLOWS ARE LONG . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 9, 2020
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" – President Reagan
DON'T HIT THE SNOOZE BUTTON. Keep the Faith. It's World Freedom Day, which I'd be unaware of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 2, 2020
"It's complicated." – Israeli and Palestinian tour guides, same answer to many questions
ON THE EVE OF THE 2016 ELECTION, I said, "Be very surprised if . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 28, 2020
"The Trump movement often is described as a 'personality cult,' which it is, in no small part." – National Review, 11/02/20, Kevin Williamson (also posted . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 20, 2020
" . . appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe for the rectitude of our intentions . . " – signers of the Declaration of Independence
IT'S BEER . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 14, 2020
Note: Republished from June 24, 2015
"We're going insane, folks. We're literally being swept up by the insane and being told we have to join them in their . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 11, 2020
Note: Republished from November 2, 2016
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 10, 2020
Note: Republished from November 13, 2009
". . that eternal want of pence, which vexes public men . . "
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 4, 2020
Note: Republished from February 10, 2018
"In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them for a time . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 29, 2020
First published on October 25, 2013
"...We are at the stake, and bayed about with many enemies; and some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 6, 2020
Note: Republished from February 12, 2012
[This is an open letter to my Alumni Assn.]
TO:
John Allen, Senior Editor, "ON WISCONSIN"
Wisconsin Alumni . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 14, 2020
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 8, 2020
"Over the last four months, Americans have lived through what is arguably the most consequential period of government malfeasance in U.S. history. Public . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 24, 2020
"The boy has a great future in the game." – Casey Stengel, on Warren Spahn, 1942 (the year I was born)
NO I'M NOT WRITING THIS posthumously. Still on . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 15, 2020
Note: Republished from June 28, 2019
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." – Joseph . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 7, 2020
Note: Republished from July 3, 2015
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the worst." – C.S. Lewis
"We have . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 27, 2020
Note: Previously published March 13, 2019
AFTER A HARD DAY'S WRITING, I stopped at the C-store for a cup of coffee. "Do you have gas?" the clerk asked.
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 19, 2020
Note: Republished from March 13, 2011
"If there is no God, what makes the next Kleenex pop out?" — anonymous
"If God allows such things to happen, He . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 11, 2020
Note: Republished from October 28, 2017
THEY CALL THEMSELVES "PROGRESSIVES." THEY CALL THEMSELVES SECULAR. They don't like to be called liberals. So let's . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 8, 2020
Note: Republished from June 6, 2019
"Dogma lives loudly in you." – Senator Dianne Feinstein, to a (Christian) judicial candidate
EVEN PEOPLE IN LALA . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 1, 2020
Note: Republished from December 8, 2016
"Many college grads are merely drugged with small doses of intellectual laudanum [opium] and until such time as its . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 23, 2020
Note: Republished from May 24, 2018
AND THE BRAVES WENT BACK TO BOSTON:
I suppose y'all wonder why I gathered y'all here today, eh? Just kidding – y . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 4, 2020
Editor's note: Reprinted from April 20, 2016
"Jefferson was a writing man with a mind that ranged over all human experience..... He cannot be filed neatly . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 15, 2020
Republished from April 25, 2019
Grampa, tell us again about the bad old days.
Well, Ismail, the 21st century started out really, really sad, but . . .
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 8, 2020
Re-published from May 23, 2015
"We wrestle against wicked spirits in high places." – Saul of Tarsus
My subject today is the 43 kings of Israel and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 29, 2020
"Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and don't mess with Mr. In Between." – a song from the 'Olden Days'
"Stop shooting each other; we . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 28, 2020
"America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all races of Europe are melting and re-forming." – Israel Zangwill (The Melting Pot Act of 1908)
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 10, 2020
[WARNING: This is not a children's chicken soup story]
"The Paul Bunyan character originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers, and was later . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 6, 2020
"I like to think of him as America's lifeguard. As a teenager, Ronald Reagan saved many lives as a lifeguard on the Rock River . . The day he was inaugurated in . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 26, 2020
"These are farmers, the Common Clay of the Old West – you know – MORONS!" – Gene Wilder in "Blazing Saddles"
HOW DO WE STEREOTYPE PEOPLE? . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 17, 2020
"I prefer that you not refer to the founders as Founding Fathers. My reason is that they aren't my daddy." – Supervisor to American Government professor . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 10, 2020
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to think them again." – Goethe (1749-1834)
"THE MOST BRILLIANT THOUGHTS . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 2, 2020
"Bill Murray's character got a little better every day. During the "impeachment," the House managers got worse every day." – someone said
I'm not . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 27, 2020
MOSES AND HIS STAFF passed a bar in DC on January 22nd. He turned around and went into the bar. The name of the bar was Cheers. A sign on the bar said "Welcome . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 21, 2020
"The modern allergy to judgments and standards is deeply problematic, for a defining mark of a good republic is precisely the willingness of its citizens to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 17, 2020
"All the sportswriters were mad at me that night because they wanted to get to Hank after the game and I closed the clubhouse to everyone but the team and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 10, 2020
Around every bend he confronted bigotry – and he did so with amazing grace, endearing dignity, and old-school wisdom." – Douglas Brinkley, on "I Had . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 31, 2019
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 23, 2019
His horse went dead and his mule went lame,
And he lost 6 cows in a poker game.
Then a hurricane came on a summer's day
And blew the house where he lived . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 19, 2019
[Some thoughts I posted on Facebook on the "historic" day]
When the chaplain found out what was going on, he probably prayed for the country, not Congress . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 17, 2019
"I have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past." – Patrick Henry
"JUST AN ACTOR." That's . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 10, 2019
"Few in their after years have occasion to revise their college opinions." – Thomas Jefferson
TWO ANALOGIES THAT DESCRIBE TODAY'S YOUNG PEOPLE:
(A) . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 3, 2019
"Christopher Columbus was no saint, but to affix blame to consequences he could not have foreseen and to attitudes he could not have envisioned adopting seems . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 24, 2019
SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE:
Grandpa, tell us again about the bad old days.
Well, Ismail, the 21st century started out really, really sad, but . . .
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 17, 2019
"The Light and the Glory; Did God have a plan for America?" by Peter Marshall and David Manuel – book on my Top 5 list
MANIFEST DESTINY. I committed a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 11, 2019
"Look down as well as up; no roots, no branches." – old Indian chief
ACADEMANIA IS TRYING TO DESTROY AMERICA'S ROOTS. There are some sentences that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 3, 2019
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 26, 2019
"Under the Progressives, laws had become meddlesome, oppressive, tyrannical and destructive of freedom . . . burdensome, subversive of the true mission of law, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 18, 2019
FOUR MORE GOOD BOOKS. And these were free. There IS a God! The other day I went to an out of town library to do my Internet thing. It happened to be the day . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 9, 2019
IT WAS APRIL OF 1623, time to get the year's corn planted. But as the Pilgrims went into the fields to till the ground and put in the seed, there was a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 25, 2019
[This is an adaptation of my 6/29/12 column.]
THIS MORNING I WAS WALKING ALONG THE SHORE, looking at the footprints in the sand. And I said "WHY Lord?"
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 12, 2019
(Quoted by the Britannica from Grant Showerman's 'The Great Mother of Gods' [Bulletin of the University of WISCONSIN, No. 43, Madison, 1901].)
Here are some . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 10, 2019
"The reason there's pollution in the world is because the Bible said 'Subdue the earth.'" – UW-Madison landscaping professor on the first day of class in . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 30, 2019
"Heterosexuality just isn't working." - NBC news
"THE ASSAULT ON THE SEXES" by Jim and Andrea Fordham was published in 1977 and I'm just getting around to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 21, 2019
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 16, 2019
"Finding good quotations isn't hard, but setting them in a certain order is something else." – Ecclesiastes (paraphrased)
"Man exploits man. Under . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 5, 2019
"The first thing I want to say is that you are NOT the most highly evolved generation in history. You are the first generation to be missing one-third of your . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 26, 2019
"Laughter is better than complaining." – paraphrasing a paraphrase of "Anger is better than laughter," which in the King James Version is "Sorrow is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 19, 2019
"Anger is better than laughter." – Ecclesiastes 7:3, paraphrased in olde English (one of my first 2003 columns, adapted)
SHOULD TRUMP "TONE IT DOWN"? . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 8, 2019
"A horrible and wonderful (astonishing) thing is done in the land; the pundits [and some pastors] preach falsely – and our people love to have it so. They . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 29, 2019
Have you wondered why the Clinton Foundation folded so suddenly after Hillary was no longer in a position of influence? Perhaps this summary will provide some . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 28, 2019
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." – Joseph Joubert (1774-1824)
SO OPENS . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 24, 2019
"I HOLD (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe, in its parts general or particular, it is impossible for the human mind not to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 17, 2019
"Man is a creature that lives, not upon bread alone but, chiefly upon catch-words." – Robert Louis Stevenson
JOURNALISTS SAY WE'RE NOT JOURNALISTS, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 12, 2019
"Every family has two lives – the life the public knows and the life of plot and counter-plot beneath the surface. . there is a seething struggle between . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 6, 2019
"Dogma lives loudly in you." – Senator Dianne Feinstein, to a (Christian) judicial candidate
EVEN PEOPLE IN LALA LAND CAN SEE that it's gone loony. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 29, 2019
W.D. Hoard: A Man For His Time, by Loren Osman (1985, Hoard & Co.), contains some light hearted anecdotes from the past.
When Ft. Atkinson's W.D. Hoard was . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 20, 2019
"The Christian blood you shed is the seed you sow; it springs from the earth again and fructifies the more." -Tertullian (155-222 AD)
"Coming events cast . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 14, 2019
THIS IS THE COUNTRY; I WORK HERE. My partner and I worked the day shift. Long days. My partner was my dad. Crime? What crime? The kids were kept so busy it was . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 6, 2019
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 25, 2019
Grampa, tell us again about the bad old days.
Well, Ismail, the 21st century started out really, really sad, but . . .
Did people really get run over by . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 13, 2019
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of insidious forces working from within." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 8, 2019
"Thank the Lord for small favors." – my dad's favorite saying
THANK HEAVEN for North Carolina and Wisconsin. At least two states kicking back against . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 29, 2019
"Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world." – Harry Reasoner
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 22, 2019
"When there's a Republican in the White House, reporters see themselves as self-appointed prosecutors. But I'll bet not too many reporters are going to see . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 13, 2019
AFTER A HARD DAY'S WRITING, I stopped at the C-store for a cup of coffee. "Do you have gas?" the clerk asked.
"No, just a little heart burn and writer's . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 4, 2019
"America, America – until about fifteen years ago, the name by itself would evoke a feeling of warmth. Whether it was pride or gratitude or hope, the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 25, 2019
"It's typical for kids [these days] to wear tee-shirts that say things like YOU CAN'T SPELL 'AWESOME' WITHOUT 'ME'!" – Deborah Skolink (Parentsmagazine, 3 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 16, 2019
DID SHE EVER COME BACK? DID SHE EVER GET OFF?
Two women got on the metro transit at different stops but ended up sitting side by side. One was a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 11, 2019
"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said – namely, that I inspired the nation . . It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 31, 2019
"The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about . . There shall be greater anguish than at any time since the world began . . Pray that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 22, 2019
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education." – Victor Hugo
"Wisdom is the power to see behind a tree." – old Indian chief
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 13, 2019
"We need a President." – Richard Nixon, 1960 (conceding to JFK despite voter fraud in Chicago and elsewhere)
"People who travel the high road of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 5, 2019
"There is a challenge, in that we are obliged to strive for a degree of seriousness to which we are no longer accustomed. We have come to rely in our . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 26, 2018
"WE'RE LIVING AMONGST KILLERS" (page one headline in the Chicago Tribune, Christmas Eve)
Debra West lost her son on August 5th; he was one of 75 people shot . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 10, 2018
There are some sentences that should never be completed:
"America has been good to us, but..."
"Thanks for the history lesson, but..."
"Public education . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 29, 2018
Jeremiad, n. A tale of woe, grief or despair; a lament over wickedness or degeneracy; often used sarcastically. – Funk & Wagnalls, 1938
It is not a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 20, 2018
Grandpa, tell us again about the bad old days.
Well, Ismail, the 21st century started out really, really sad, but . . .
Did people really get run over by . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 14, 2018
"Never look back." – Satchel Paige
"Unless there's a runner on second base." – Curtis Dahlgren
MY 1/02/04 COLUMN STARTED LIKE THIS:
When . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 7, 2018
"I wasn't born yesterday; while you're messing with the opposition, lying, it won't be a blessing when it all comes to fruition." – C.D. (I should've been . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 31, 2018
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 25, 2018
"Doublespeak means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." – George Orwell
NEVER MIND . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 15, 2018
"People may be interested in avoiding reality or rearranging it, or obfuscating it, but it's there in the wings." – Errol Morris, film maker
THE WATERS . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 8, 2018
"I've gone to considerable efforts to try to distinguish myself from postmodernism's truth-as-subjective [proponents]. . It's an interest that I developed in . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 30, 2018
"She will lie as fast as a dogge wil licke a dishe." – John Heywood (1546)
"An egg is not so full of meat as she is full of lies." – John Stuar . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 21, 2018
"Lack of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overlap." – William Hazlitt, 1823
IT'S . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 9, 2018
"The fist is quicker than the mouth." – Moshe Dayan
ON THE OTHER HAND, to coin a phrase, there is another hand – and a God – which even . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 1, 2018
"Gang-bangers are not 'animals'; just men are (white men, that is)." – typical Left-wing logic
IF YOU ARE DATING a feminist college professor, you have . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 23, 2018
"Environmental alarms have been screeching so long that people see them as a nuisance, like dualing car alarms on a big city street." – author unknown
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 15, 2018
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 5, 2018
Subject: Alarm! PCHETA bill just passed the House
Dear friends,
Please, please read this! Please pray to the Holy Spirit!
And please read Ione . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 1, 2018
"Specious, adj.; seemingly fair, apparently acceptable, especially at first glance" – Webster
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 26, 2018
"Climate change is the biggest challenge we are facing." – the outgoing "pop culture cool" President
"I gave up dairy products because cows are the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 19, 2018
TRUE STORY: Four frat boys from Harvard decided to take a spin through the back country of western Massachusetts and have a few yuks at the expense of the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 9, 2018
Somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere children shout;
And somewhere men are laughing, and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 27, 2018
"Souls are not saved in bundles . . . Simple and terrible laws . . pervade and govern every atom in Nature . . . This is he men miscall Fate, treading dark ways . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 17, 2018
"Hear us, Father, for all sorts and conditions of men. Make wars throughout the world to cease, and bring this poor little sin-cursed planet back into Thy bosom . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 6, 2018
"Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in every garden." – UPmag.net
GRADUATES, OUTWARD BOUND, AND SNOWFLAKES: I come not to praise you. I come to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 24, 2018
AND THE BRAVES WENT BACK TO BOSTON:
I suppose y'all wonder why I gathered y'all here today, eh? Just kidding – y'all are wondering what I'M doing here, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 18, 2018
"Let me solemnly warn you that if you intend to accomplish anything you must take your side. There can be no halting between two opinions." –
Timothy . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 9, 2018
". . the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 30, 2018
"Black people don't have to be Democracts [sic]." – Chance (rapper)
The winter's passed,
The summer's here.
For this we thank
Our party dear!
- . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 18, 2018
"The comparisons of our governments with those of Europe are like comparisons of heaven and hell." – Tom Jefferson (quoted in "The Jefferson Lies" by . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 9, 2018
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 22, 2018
"I was so skinny that until I was 23, I never cast a shadow." – Lefty Gomez, Yankee pitcher (1908-1989)
I CAN TELL THERE'S A GOD by the way He keeps . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 20, 2018
[This is an annual classic, re-posted for new readers (assuming one or two of them).]
AFTER A HARD DAY'S WRITING, I stopped at the local pub and grub to grab . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 12, 2018
IN THE AGE OF THE "SMART" PHONE, the saving of proverbs is becoming a lost art. "Shakespeare who?" That is so five centuries ago. It's hard to Tweet a proverb . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 3, 2018
"At some point, there's going to be enough pressure that it is just going to be too embarrassing to believe in God." – Samuel Harris ("Letter to a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 22, 2018
CHANGING THE DIAPER is the first job of a parent; the very next job is to introduce an attitude adjustment to any child prone to temper tantrums. After gaining . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 10, 2018
"In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 30, 2018
"A good lawyer must be a great liar." – Edward Ward (1703)
Why does a hearse horse snicker
When hauling a lawyer away?
- Carl Sandburg ("The . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 28, 2018
"Better to speak truth rudely, than lie covertly." – Herbert (1640)
"Christ Himself . . scruples not to name the dunghill." – Milton (1642)
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 20, 2018
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 9 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 13, 2018
"America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all races of Europe are melting and re-forming." – Israel Zangwill (The Melting Pot Act of 1908)
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 6, 2018
"We have rediscovered the preciousness of freedom, its importance to the cause of peace and to restoring to humanity the dignity to which it is entitled . . . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 22, 2017
Curtis Dahlgren
December 14, 2017
"Do you have gas?" the cashier asked. "No, just writer's block and a headache," I said as I handed her my debit card for the diet Cokes. She didn't get the joke . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 6, 2017
"God isn't running a half-way house." – Billy Sunday
RIDDLE: What did the mama squirrel say to the baby squirrel? A: "Make sure you run both ways when . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 29, 2017
"This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 19, 2017
" . . and His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives . . " – prophecy
MANY YEARS FROM NOW, to coin a phrase, people will still be talking about these . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 10, 2017
"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 28, 2017
THEY CALL THEMSELVES "PROGRESSIVES." THEY CALL THEMSELVES SECULAR. They don't like to be called liberals. So let's just call them what they ARE: "over-the-hill . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 22, 2017
"You were like an ember raked from the fire, but you have not returned unto me, saith the Lord . . . but let good judgment run down as waters, and righteousness . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 14, 2017
"Dogma lives loudly in you." – Dianne Feinstein, to a judicial candidate (that's bad?)
WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, AMERICA? Do you have blinders on, or what? . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 3, 2017
"Massacre in Las Vegas" – news item
WILL NFL PLAYERS SIT NOW? For Monday night football? Thursday? Next weekend? You think you have problems? What good . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 25, 2017
"We need a President." – Richard Nixon, 1960; conceding to JFK despite Chicago vote fraud
"Will you accept the election results?" – Hillary, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 16, 2017
"RenewAmerica is a fringe right website that promotes Christian fundamentalism and makes Townhall.com look sane in comparison (though some of their pundits also . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 10, 2017
"There shall be signs in the sun and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon earth perplexity of nations, the sea and waves roaring . . . " – Matthew, 1st . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 3, 2017
"Weep not for the dead, but weep sorely for the living." – Jeremiah
NOW CAN WE GET SOME REAL NEWS? Robert E. Lee made some serious mistakes, but he . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 24, 2017
"The President should call . . not an ordinary Day of Prayer as we have had in the past . . [but] all places of recreation and amusement should be asked to shut . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 17, 2017
Impassioned with the certainty of youth . .
What got you off track in your search for Truth?
- poem excerpt from last week's column
"A liberal . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 8, 2017
"If there is no God, what makes the next Kleenex pop out?" – unknown
"If God allows such things to happen, He must be cruel." – commonly heard . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 30, 2017
"If there were nothing else in my life to prove the existence of an Almighty and Merciful God, the events of the next 24 hours did it." – Dwight D. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 19, 2017
"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." – Yogi Berra
"A nation's future is ninety percent hard work. And the other half is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 7, 2017
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 26, 2017
"If you don't know history, you don't know anything." – [Letter to a local newspaper]
USUALLY I skip over the reports on school board meetings, but I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 17, 2017
NEITHER RHYME NOR REASON. "WRITTEN WITH A PEN OF IRON, WITH THE POINT OF A DIAMOND . . . A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the pundits . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 5, 2017
"Beef if you want to, but don't wave your arms." – Umpire Jocko Conlon to Jackie
WHERE'S THE BEEF? THE DONALD WON 307 ELECTORAL VOTES. And those weren . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 26, 2017
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 18, 2017
"Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in every garden." – UPmag.net
GRADUATES, OUTWARD BOUND, AND SNOWFLAKES: I come not to praise you. I come to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 10, 2017
"A just man walks in his integrity and his children are blessed after him." – Solomon (1,000 BC)
"Come now and let us reason together." – Isaiah . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 4, 2017
"If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it's part of a tree." – Brian Crane ("Pickles" comic strip)
"An . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 26, 2017
"Only one in four can actually name one fundamental freedom protected by the First Amendment, and just 1 in 1000 can name all five freedoms protected by it." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 19, 2017
"I beseech you in the [name] of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." – Oliver Cromwell
"Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise." – . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 13, 2017
"The comparisons of our governments with those of Europe are like comparisons of heaven and hell." – Tom Jefferson (quoted in "The Jefferson Lies" by . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 6, 2017
"Jesus spoke of Truth as an existing Reality, and when Pontius Pilate said, 'What is Truth?' – as William Cowper said – 'He didn't wait for an . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 30, 2017
"You [talk radio] are bad for America because you're good at what you do." – Ted Koppel, to Sean Hannity
"GOD must have given common sense by the acre. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 22, 2017
"Do illiterate people get the full benefit of alphabet soup?" – UPmag.net
ALPHABET SOUP: Public school "grads" may not get it, but they know everything . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 16, 2017
[This is an annual classic, reposted for new readers (assuming one or two of them).]
AFTER A HARD DAY'S WRITING, I stopped at the local pub and grub to grab . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 8, 2017
"Your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams." – President Reagan's farewell address to the United Nations (1989)
THROUGH A . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 1, 2017
"Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again." – New York Times
THIRTY YEARS AGO, that kudo was on the cover of Donald's "Art of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 22, 2017
"Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities . . . Once abolish the God, and the government becomes . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 13, 2017
"This is a blue collar state. When you look at the coast of Boston and the fishing industry and you look at the towns and the cities, this is a blue collar . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 6, 2017
"Effort only releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." – Napoleon Hill
"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 1, 2017
"Science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 23, 2017
"It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." – Thomas Sowell
WAS he talking about Donald Trump, or Sowell . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 12, 2017
"Climate change is the biggest challenge we are facing." – the outgoing "pop culture cool" President
"I gave up dairy products because cows are the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 6, 2017
[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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 29, 2016
JANUARY: The month with the two faces, one looking back and one looking forward to future history! If there were no reason to study history other than . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 26, 2016
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 18, 2016
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those that feel." – Earl of Orford (1776) [for those who missed it, this is adapted from my July 1 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 8, 2016
"Many college grads are merely drugged with small doses of intellectual laudanum [opium] and until such time as its influence wears off, they are unable to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 3, 2016
"We are not going to allow any redefining of words here. You are a bigot. That is not a media narrative or a fairy tale. That is an absolute truth." – . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 24, 2016
"Moscow added 12,000 to the toll of death in the German ranks. North of Stalingrad another four thousand died." – November 23, 1942 ("News Review of 1942, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 21, 2016
"Is it for this that you propose to fling away the ancient heritage bequeathed to us by the architects of our magnitude and renown?" – Winston Churchill
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 12, 2016
"Give thy king your justice, and may he judge the people with righteousness. Let the mountains bear prosperity, and the hills. In his days may blessed . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 7, 2016
"It is never untimely to yank the rope on freedom's bell." – Frank Capra (1897-1991), on "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
AN IMMIGRANT FROM ITALY – . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 2, 2016
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 28, 2016
"The rooster is crowing 24/7, but the hens have stopped laying." – CD [a 12/08/13 column]
ART BUCHWALD where are you, now that we need you? He was such . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 22, 2016
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 11, 2016
"All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me . . . For the execution of the journey I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics, or . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 3, 2016
"Thank heaven for little Carolinas." – Maurice Chevalier (paraphrased)
THANK HEAVEN for North Carolina. At least one state kicking back against the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 25, 2016
"There seems to be a playbook in the library of hell where this strategy gets taught to demons: 'Destroy the traditional family in order to create the perfect . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 14, 2016
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." – William Arthur Ward
"What we change . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 24, 2016
"Get control of all means of publicity. Get peoples' minds off government and divide people into hostile groups by constantly harping on matters of no . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 10, 2016
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A MAILMAN knocks on an apartment door . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 2, 2016
"Who told you to flee from the wrath to come?" – John the Baptist, to Pharisees coming late to church
I'M OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE this week, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 24, 2016
"It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." – Mark Twain
"A lie goes around the world before Truth gets its boots . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 14, 2016
"Sword of Common Sense! Our surest gift." – George Meredith (1828-1909), "To the Comic Spirit"
"Foremost captain of his time; rich in saving common . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 8, 2016
[IN LIEU OF A NEW COLUMN, AFTER DALLAS, HERE ARE A FEW NUGGETS FROM MY FIVE PREVIOUS COLUMNS.]
"Et tu, Brute? But for what?" – Julius Caesar, 44 BC . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 4, 2016
"I can inform ten men easier than I can reform one." – Governor W.D. Hoard (Wisconsin, 1888)
"ANCESTRY SHOULD STAND AS AN INSPIRATION, NOT AS AN ALIBI, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 29, 2016
"Et tu, Brute? But for what?" – Julius Caesar, 44 BC (paraphrased)
"President Lincoln assassinated; feds investigate John Wilkes Booth's motive" &ndash . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 25, 2016
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education." – Victor Hugo
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 18, 2016
"He discounted the thin veneer of scholastic training that is sometimes mistaken for culture. He held that many college graduates are merely drugged with small . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 5, 2016
"Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in every garden." – UPmag.net
GRADUATES, OUTWARD BOUND, AND SNOWFLAKES: I come not to praise you. I come to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 17, 2016
"If you have an ounce of common sense and one friend, you have no need of an analyst." – J.C. and J.C. (actress Joan Collins, directly, and Jesus Christ . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 14, 2016
TRY TO IMAGINE THE INAUGURATION OF A MAN ACCEPTABLE TO HOLLYWOOD – sort of a cross between Rocky Balboa and a "Rock star"; by using the outline of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 5, 2016
"Apparently there are limits to 'oral history.' For example, most people would prefer to be descendants of a former president, rather than, say, descendants of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 29, 2016
I THOUGHT I WAS IMAGINING THINGS. On a visit to Monticello the other day, I was the first tourist to arrive, and was greeted at the front door by ol' T.J. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 20, 2016
"Jefferson was a writing man with a mind that ranged over all human experience . . He cannot be filed neatly into a pattern of description . . . He was a mobile . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 7, 2016
"Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods." – Japanese proverb
"He was a practiced orator and could make a very small amount of information go a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 1, 2016
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 25, 2016
"Changer ensemble maintenant – Real change NOW." – Justin Trudeau
"Change we can believe in." – Bernie Sanders
"People must be so . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 17, 2016
"Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must be [made to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 14, 2016
AFTER A HARD DAY'S WRITING, I stopped at the local pub and grub to grab a bite to eat. A March Madness game was on TV. I'd just taken a stool at the bar when . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 5, 2016
"TWO SIDES TO EVERY COIN"
GENERAL PATTON used to say that "if everybody is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." This is the Age of Enforced Conformity. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 26, 2016
"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," . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 20, 2016
Friends:
I WAS WRITING YOU ABOUT YOUR SALVATION – which is yours no less than ours – when it became urgently necessary to appeal to you to join . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 11, 2016
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God; and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 5, 2016
"Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; a fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby." – George Herbert (1593-1633)
P.R. "EXPERTS" IN POLITICS, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 28, 2016
"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures Kings." -William Shakespeare
A doubtful throne is ice on . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 24, 2016
All glory, laud, and honour
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To whom the lips of [58 million] unborn children
Made sweet Hosannas ring.
- James Neale (1818-1866, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 15, 2016
"I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human." – David Bowie
"I have a sixth sense, not the other five. If I wasn't making . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 10, 2016
YEAR IN REVIEW AND PREVIEW: The Al Gore countdown clock is ticking at the Limbaugh site (his "10-years-to-the Deluge" prediction). Advice from the Judeo . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 30, 2015
[IN LIEU OF a year-end brag letter, I decided to back up a few years. There are many good writers at Renew America, but how many of us do you know? Don't want . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 21, 2015
"Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Younger parents aren't sure that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 8, 2015
"I had always been taught, and experience had fortified the teachings, that an active faith in God and a rigid adherence to Christian principles are the most . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 30, 2015
[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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 22, 2015
Daddy, Daddy – did bad men really used to shoot people in theaters and church and hotels?
Yes Son. But that was a long time ago. It never happens . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 18, 2015
"A wolf and a lamb met at a river while drinking one day. The wolf for some reason wanted to pick a fight and accused the lamb of muddying his water. The lamb . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 13, 2015
"People love new things like Snap-chat and computerized eyeglasses. But they want to know that some things will remain exactly the way they were when they were . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 7, 2015
"Bedfellows make strange politics." – Wall Street Journal
"Somebody who reads only newspapers or at best the books of contemporary authors . . is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 28, 2015
"Divide people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance . . Cause a breakdown of the old moral virtues; honesty, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 24, 2015
"Stuff happens." – Hillary Clinton, regarding Benghazi (roughly paraphrased)
"CLINTON CAN SLEEP EASIER AS SHE RIDES A CAMPAIGN HOT STREAK." HUH? The . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 17, 2015
"Constant talk builds the impression that public opinion is at least divided on the subject, and that a sizable segment accepts or even practices [XXX]." &ndash . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 7, 2015
"I suggest we step back from the headlines and look into our own Book . . As someone said, 'Weak men believe inluck; strong men believe in cause-and-effect.'" . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 26, 2015
"Obama Touts Religious Liberty to Pope While Litigating to Force 15 Dioceses to Cooperate in Abortion." – CNSNews (9-24-15)
YOUR PRESIDENT says that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 19, 2015
"We cultivate the mind without loss of manliness." – Thucydides (471 BC)
"The real enemy of clear thinking is the script. We think the world is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 10, 2015
"One thing the control freaks in power hate is dissenters – especially dissenters with passion." – CD (June 2009)
THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT ought to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 4, 2015
"We OWN this country; not you [lawyer-politicians]." – Clint Eastwood
"Send me men to match my mountains." – capitol complex, Sacramento
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 21, 2015
"This year alone, drought cost California agriculture $2.7 billion." – USA TODAY, 8-20-15
"There's a little rain off to our west, but not enough to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 15, 2015
"By the time you leave Stanford, you should be completely disoriented." – Stanford prof ("365 Stupidest Things Ever Said" calendar)
"Education is a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 10, 2015
IT WAS INTERESTING, BUT (there's always a big butt), I fell asleep before it was over. I mean, you call that a debate? The Donald's first marriage should have . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 1, 2015
"This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country." – Eugene McCarthy
PLAIN . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 22, 2015
"Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization." – Churchill
POLITICS! The juxtaposition of opposites. Defying description, sanity, and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 17, 2015
IT'S FUNNY BUT you seldom see a man of the cloth go into a saloon. I wonder why? He could probably fellowship with some of his parishioners and wine-bibbers. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 11, 2015
"The lesson of the Inquisition . . The fanged dogs of war, once turned loose upon the man who dared to think, have left as sole successor only a fat and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 3, 2015
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the worst." – C.S. Lewis
"We have legalized confiscation, consecrated . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 24, 2015
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 15, 2015
"The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, – no, but the kind of man the country turns out . . " – . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 3, 2015
"Anthony Flew, 81, has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe." – my column, 1/01/05
"EVER SINCE THE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 23, 2015
"We wrestle against wicked spirits in high places." – Saul of Tarsus
MEMORIAL DAY is a time to remember those who went before us. My subject today is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 15, 2015
"I WAS A BAD KID. I say that without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it . . Looking back on my early boyhood, I honestly don't remember being . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 10, 2015
"A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish man despises his mother. Folly is a joy to him who is destitute of wisdom." – King Solomon
"Learning, n. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 2, 2015
"[W]hile it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world because we have no government armed with power . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 24, 2015
"Whenever a film's credits contain the words 'Inspired by Actual Events' you can rest assured that what you are about to see is a baldfaced lie . . But 2014 was . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 15, 2015
"Reach down as well as up. No roots, no branches." – "Things Trees Know" (Douglas Wood, Adventure publishing)
THERE THEY WERE. One was made of field . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 9, 2015
A morning-after in Detroit and Hotlanta,
And you can smile in Green Bay if you wanta,
But a funny thing happened on the way to Utopia.
- my column (October 1 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 29, 2015
"Reputation does not have the last word, for [King] Richard or for any of us." – Bishop of Leicester, at re-burial service for Richard III (?-1485).
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 21, 2015
[as originally posted, St. Patrick's Day, 2010 (maybe I'll make this an annual thing for Presidents' Day)]
"HOWDY," said George.
Yes, I'm sure it was him. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 14, 2015
"In what sense do we reject ethics, reject morality? In the sense given by the bourgeois, who based ethics on God's commandments." – Vladimir Lenin (1870- . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 6, 2015
"Pravda nyet izvestia; izvestia nyet pravda" (News isn't truth; truth isn't news). – common joke in the USSR
A LONG-TIME READER of this column, age 84, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 28, 2015
"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: . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 19, 2015
"It is an heretic that makes the fire – not she which burns in it." – Shakespeare[1623]
HERE'S A GENERAL "CONSENSUS" FOR YOU:
'Tis strange,- . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 11, 2015
"The dirty lttle (secret) factoid about "Origin" by Darwin was that it was 100% about 'change' and zero percent about ORIGIN. The rest is all supposition, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 7, 2015
"The absurdity of reality is worse than fiction because it doesn't have to hold to the limits of plausibility . . . If we accept that miracles sometimes happen . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 29, 2015
"The absurdity of reality is worse than fiction because it doesn't have to stick to the limits of plausibility." – author unknown
WHERE DOES ONE START? . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 21, 2015
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything," quoth Aesop (500 BC?).
AESOP MUST HAVE BEEN A SPORTS FAN. A few words about the playoffs: The . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 17, 2015
"It would be nice if more people could at least stop acting like wusses." – USA Today, 12-26-14 ("Land of the free, home of the wuss?"
THE ISSUE IS . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 9, 2015
"Even more disturbing than its holding is the tone of the court's opinion. It bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life." – Chief . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 28, 2014
"There is [definitely] no God." – Freedom From Religion Foundation
TIS SEEMINGLY the season for gift-giving and I recently received a fund-raising . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 13, 2014
"Anyone who doubts the pervasiveness of political correctness at UW-Madison need look no further than the two campus newspapers. Both carried items in the past . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 4, 2014
NO WARMTH, no ease,
No butterflies, no bees;
No birds, November . . .
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 26, 2014
"I speak the password primeval . . I give the sign of democracy . . Stand up for the stupid and crazy . . Hate tyrants. . Re-examine all you have been told at . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 17, 2014
"IF THE VERY OLD WILL REMEMBER, THE VERY YOUNG WILL LISTEN." – Native American proverb
PEGGY NOONAN MUST BE VERY OLD; her words keep sounding wiser to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 13, 2014
"They have set up kings, but not by Me." – Hosea
THIS COLUMN ISN'T ABOUT THE PRESIDENT (no "change" there), or about the weather (to say the least, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 7, 2014
"Government IS the problem." – Ronald Reagan
THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE may have been exaggerated, but don't you just hate it when people miss the point . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 27, 2014
"People still believe government is more often the problem than the solution." – President Clinton, after 1994 mid-terms
"The Ebola Anti-Hysteria . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 18, 2014
"You know, congressmen lose elections all the time. It's very rare, though, that congressmen have the privilege of losing an election in defense of the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 14, 2014
America conquered polio,
And "beat" butter with oleo.
We vanquished TB,
But then came TV -
With the stuff that's worse than the plague.
While protesters . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 4, 2014
" . . the great state university of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found." - . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 23, 2014
"Man without God is a beast, and never more beastly than when he is most intelligent about his beastliness." – Whittaker Chambers
DAHLGREN "was one of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 17, 2014
"Can you look an honest man or a pure woman straight in the eye?" – college professor (years ago)
THE ROLLING STONE isn't about the Resurrection, but I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 10, 2014
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
SEPTEMBER NINTH is the anniversary of my . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 31, 2014
"An attack on your ROOTS is an attack on you." – C. Dahlgren
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN said, "At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 14, 2014
"Have we reached the stomach-turning point yet?" – Jenkin Lloyd-Jones
FROM ST. LOUIS TO THE SINJAR PLAINS there was no news fit to print this week, but . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 7, 2014
"The mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped." – God
WHY WOULD BIG BROTHER WANT ORWELL OUT OF THE SCHOOLS? Isn't the answer obvious? I reported . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 27, 2014
"You are capable of both something grand and something small; it would be a shame if you do nothing at all." – John Donne (quoted in UP magazine)
THAT . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 16, 2014
"If there were nothing else in my life to prove the existence of an Almighty and Merciful God, the events of the next 24 hours did it." – Dwight D. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 7, 2014
"What is past is prologue." – Shakespeare (engraved on the National Archives building)
WELL, WELL, WELL. When the deal releasing five top terrorist . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 25, 2014
"When there's a Republican in the White House, reporters see themselves as self-appointed prosecutors. But I'll bet not too many reporters are going to see . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 16, 2014
"The world sinks into ruin; all things are perishing except our sins; these alone flourish." – St. Jerome, 340-420 A.D. (from my 5/27/14 column)
WE CAN . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 8, 2014
"Shall we sell our birthright for a mess of potash?" – Artemus Ward
"MISTAKE" (?) – that word hardly does "justice" to it; this was the worst . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 31, 2014
"Hollywood is where if you don't have happiness, you send out for it." – Rex Reed
"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 21, 2014
"The Christian blood you shed is the seed you sow; it springs from the earth again and fructifies the more." -Tertullian (155-222 AD)
"Coming events cast . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 8, 2014
"Too many modern liberal fetishes are predicated on the medieval notion of exemption, and should not be taken as anything much other than useful pretensions or . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 1, 2014
"Diplomacy, like politics, is the art of the possible; and if we use our leverage toward an unachievable end, we will create a mess." – George Ball
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 15, 2014
"'I wish thar was winders to my Sole,' said I, 'so that you could see some of my feelins.'" – Artemus Ward (Chas. Browne), 1834-1867
"This world is a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 11, 2014
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." – attrib. to Voltaire (1694-1778)
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT IDEA? . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 3, 2014
"No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprizes of the civil authority." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 28, 2014
Dear Regents, U. of Wisconsin:
"I don't need to do a better job. I just need better P.R. on the job I'm doing!" – Calvin of "Calvin & Hobbes"
As a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 23, 2014
"Communists must always consider that of all the arts the motion picture is the most important." – Vladimir Lenin
SPEAKING OF THE MEDIA AND HISTORY, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 14, 2014
"I'm not ARGUING; I'm just EXPLAINING it better!" – words seen on a sweat shirt
BTW, I WAS AT WAL-MART when I saw this lady wearing that sweat shirt. I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 5, 2014
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." – Mel Brooks
"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 2, 2014
"Education is critical if we are to avoid taking educated people [too] seriously." – author unknown
DECEMBER CAME IN LIKE A LION AND WENT OUT LIKE A . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 23, 2014
[as originally posted, St. Patrick's Day, 2010 (maybe I'll make this an annual thing for Presidents' Day)]
"HOWDY," said George.
Yes, I'm sure it was him. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 19, 2014
"My heart is inditing a good matter – gushing – and my tongue is the pen of a ready writer." – 45th Psalm
A SCHOOLMASTER was reading a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 13, 2014
"Both parties waste money on focus-group polling, but why? The truth is the Truth whether the tide is going out or coming in (no matter how people 'feel' about . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 4, 2014
ROCKY MOUNTAIN MELLOW. PACIFIC HIGH PRESSURE. No one is madder than the Broncos. Why didn't the Plan work? I don't know. It's not my job, but I have just one . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 27, 2014
"Propane is scarce . . Demand has just been unprecedented . . [and] farmers used more of it than usual to dry [corn] after a wet harvest." – Wall Street . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 22, 2014
"In my home state of Wisconsin, farmers could face more pests and widespread disease with higher humidity and warmer winter temperatures. Ice fisherman are . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 13, 2014
"Yoopers can still walk on water and I drove my car across the local lake on the fourth day of spring!" – CD
www.RenewAmerica.com/columns/ Dahlgren/ 13 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 28, 2013
"ASSUMING, for a minute, that you're the Apostle Paul," I said, "where have you been?"
"I DON'T KNOW," said the stranger. "It seemed like I was sleeping, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 23, 2013
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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 20, 2013
"I am no orator, as Brutus is, but as you know me all, a plain, blunt man." – Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")
"GLOBAL WARMING'S STORY begins with a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 8, 2013
"The rooster is crowing 24/7, but the hens have stopped laying." – CD
ART BUCHWALD where are you, now that we need you? He was such an equal . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 2, 2013
"Only 73 percent of U.S. adults were able to answer correctly that the earth revolves around the sun." – National Science Board (2010)
TOO MANY "FLAT . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 21, 2013
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." – Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 12, 2013
"11-12-13" – today's calendar
A NOVEMBER TO REMEMBER or a November to forget? I'm just asking. There's bad news and then there's bad news. Then again, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 6, 2013
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." – Pres. James Madison
WE TOLD YOU . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 25, 2013
" . . . We are at the stake, and bayed about with many enemies; and some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,
Millions of mischiefs." – Wm. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 15, 2013
MY BROTHER AND I grew up on a farm in the 1950s. It was a trip, over gravel roads, just to get to a small town (where people were definitely clinging to their . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 6, 2013
"I am extremely concerned for you that those around you have led you to believe . . that it is in any way 'cool' to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 1, 2013
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 21, 2013
"If I say, I will speak thus and such, behold, I should 'offend' the generation of thy children." – King David
YOU GET THE PICTURE: so-called . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 13, 2013
"If you go to the Republican convention in Florida, you see all those old people with all the dead skin cells washing off of them . . . Republicans raped this . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 5, 2013
"My thoughts go to her who gave me many things in life, but her most important gift was the knowledge of happiness and solace to be gained in prayer . . . I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 29, 2013
"By the time you leave Stanford, you should be completely disoriented." – Stanford prof ("365 Stupidest Things Ever Said" calendar)
"Education is a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 21, 2013
"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have the most diverse people from every planet on earth in this state." – Grey Davis (as . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 14, 2013
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"TRUST IN GOD MAKES THE NATION STRONG." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 5, 2013
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis . . .
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
SOME DAYS I stand in awe of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 27, 2013
"By executive order, the Florida and Arizona stars have been removed from the American flag because they are too white, too fast, and too furious with the White . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 16, 2013
"To my mind the power possessed and exercised by the bureaucrats in Washington represents the most dangerous situation in America . If the wrong man should come . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 12, 2013
"With the weekend not even half over, the city's toll from violence stood at nine dead and at least 36 wounded as of Friday afternoon."
GOD HELP US. We're . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 8, 2013
"How many stars are there on that flag?" – Jay Leno
"It's moving too fast to count them." – woman-on-the-street
SOME PEOPLE JUST SHOULDN'T . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 27, 2013
"I HEARD you're hiring a new community commentator, and I'm here to apply for the job," said the stranger. "My name is Jude."
Hey Jude! Jude what?
It's . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 18, 2013
"WHO ARE YOU?" asked the man behind the desk. "And why are you talking to me?"
"My name is Hosea," said the man in the plain white clothes. "I heard your . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 12, 2013
"Close the IRS and move it to Gitmo." – Jay Leno
"Any analyst at any time can target anyone." – Edward Snowden
THE TIME HAS COME, the Walrus . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 2, 2013
The check is in the mail; the moon is made of cheese.
The Prez had no idee'; he never had a clue.
What I tell you three times is true:
He didn't even think . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 25, 2013
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 15, 2013
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." – George Orwell
THIS MAY OFFEND LIBERALS, BUT . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 8, 2013
HERE ARE SOME HEADLINES from over the years:
- "Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier"
- "Chuck Yaeger breaks the sound barrier"
- "Collins breaks . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 24, 2013
"Wicked men shall wax worse and worse . . unthankful boasters, deceived, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth." – Saul of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 13, 2013
"Don't go wobbly on us, George." – Prime Minister Thatcher (to G.H.W. Bush, before the liberation of Kuwait)
MAGGIE WAS "ISOLATED" ON THE FALKLANDS. I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 6, 2013
"Under normal conditions, a lot of the sun's energy gets used to evaporate water from the soil or form plants . . . but when there's no water to evaporate, all . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 27, 2013
"We are now in Connecticut, and never out of sight of a house . . . I do feel as if there had been religion in this country once, and . . . there may have been . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 21, 2013
"Political correctness is just tyranny with manners, so I wish for you to be un-popular. Popularity is just history's pocket change. But courage – courage . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 12, 2013
"Someone put it so well at the time, Knute Rockne did more spiritual good than a thousand preachers." – Pres. Reagan, at Notre Dame (May 1981)
MARCH 8, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 1, 2013
"What a world of gammon and spinnage it is . . . " – Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
SPINACH AND LETTUCE are Mrs. Aboma's favorite foods ("Let us go to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 20, 2013
"I will come near to you to be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, and against the false swearers . . . " – Malachi (about 400 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 6, 2013
Policeman: "Your son just held up a gas station, raped the clerk, and tried to kill her."
Mother: "That's funny. He's not that way at home."
THAT WAS A . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 26, 2013
"There is nothing more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies." – Fenelon
THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THAT . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 18, 2013
"Twice have [millions] called me to the throne . . . What? Who are you? nothing! . . . I am the throne!" – Napoleon, to the Legislature, 1813 (shortly . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 13, 2013
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 5, 2013
I'M RESOLVING TO WRITE SHORTER COLUMNS, SO HERE GOES: A FEW FAVORITE QUOTATIONS.
'Tis well an Old Age is out,
And time to begin a New.
- John Dreyden (17 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 30, 2012
"I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Give me light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
"And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 19, 2012
"STOP!" — William F. Buckley, Jr. (former Connecticut resident)
"He shall save them because they trust in Him." — Today With God (December 14th)
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 14, 2012
[The following is an excerpt from my December 24, 2004 column.]
I'll stand beside the keeper of the inn,
Challenging those who charge him with the sin
That . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 9, 2012
"Depression is simply anger without enthusiasm." — author unknown
[this is an excerpt from the column I posted July 19, 2008]
TO COMPLETELY SUPPRESS . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 5, 2012
"Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Nothing is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 28, 2012
SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, not long ago, four diplomats go into a bar. They sit down at a table and a waitress says, "Would you like menus?" and they say yes . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 22, 2012
"I believe that God in shedding His grace on this country has always in this divine scheme of things kept an eye on our land and guided it as a promised land." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 15, 2012
"When the wicked rule, the people mourn." — Proverbs
IT HAS FINALLY COME DOWN TO THIS: G-O-D. PRESIDENTS, GENERALS, AND DIPLOMATS ARE BECOMING . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 9, 2012
"A nation that expects to be ignorant and free is a nation that never was and never will be." — T. Jefferson
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 6, 2012
"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 31, 2012
[THIS OUGHT TO GO VIRAL]- THE FIRST LADY'S NAME WAS SHELLEY; the second lady's was Lady Gaga; the third one was Kardashian; and the fourth lady was Whoopi . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 26, 2012
"The price of peace is to be a strong nation, not only physically but also morally and spiritually." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Against stupidity the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 20, 2012
"I had a better year than the President." — Babe Ruth (to justify his salary)
"I pledge allegiance to the effete liberal snobs of Cambridge-Brookline, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 13, 2012
"Theoretically there is nothing that could stop the government from taxing 100 percent of income so long as the people get benefits commensurate with their . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 11, 2012
"Eat all the apples you like but stay away from the tree of idiocy." — God (Non Sequitur version of Genesis, by Wiley Miller)
CHICAGO: DID YOU KNOW . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 5, 2012
"HOWDY," said George.
Yes, I'm sure it was him. I've been to Mt. Rushmore you know. Several times, in fact. I knew it was him, but I tried to act real casual . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 25, 2012
"Finally, Americans are coming to realize that the Left's goal is now, as it has always been, 'equality,' not prosperity."
- Dennis Prager
"Little else is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 22, 2012
"Build a better mousetrap and 16,000 IRS agents will beat a path to your door in the middle of the night, saying 'You didn't build that. But hand over your . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 11, 2012
"The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it . . . A State that dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 7, 2012
"You will hear more good things on the outside of a stage from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelve-month with the undergraduates, or heads of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 31, 2012
"We OWN this country; not you [lawyer-politicians]." — Clint Eastwood
"Send me men to match my mountains." — capitol complex, Sacramento
THOSE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 22, 2012
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it and at whom it is aimed." — Josef Stalin
"Orientation is intended to disorient you. By the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 18, 2012
"When Ann Coulter wrote a book entitled 'Demonic,' she wasn't just using a 'figure of speech'!" — C.Dahlgren (8-10)
HUMAN LIFE IS NO LONGER SACRED, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 10, 2012
"In those countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarcely call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 2, 2012
"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers; they are wrong." — Ronald Reagan
TOO MUCH MATERIAL. That's why I've been . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 15, 2012
"Think things can't get any worse? Think again, if the parasites win and we get a one-party government." — Curtis Dahlgren www.renewamerica.com/columns . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 5, 2012
"Why would anyone live in the Upper Peninsula?" — friend from Wisconsin
ORIGINALLY I WAS GOING TO RETIRE OUT WEST. I really liked Wyoming and had . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 29, 2012
THIS MORNING I WAS WALKING ALONG THE SHORE, looking at the footprints in the sand. And I said "WHY Lord?"
And the Lord says, "Why whut?" And I said:
"You . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 20, 2012
"In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study . . . This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 13, 2012
DEAR AMERICAN: After centuries of mining in America, mining is becoming "controversial" in northern Wisconsin and the U.P. of Michigan. However, mining . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 10, 2012
"Whose idea was it to recall Walker? Name me the name!" — Mayor Tom Barrett
HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY SAY THAT, BUT HE WAS THINKING IT (shortly before getting . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 27, 2012
"The fact that so many successful politicans are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 19, 2012
Dear Editor, Michigan Outdoor News:
ET TU, BRUTUS? I never thought I'd ever have to complain to an "outdoor" publication, but the Michigan Outdoor News . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 13, 2012
"Du sublime au Ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas." ["There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."] — Napoleon (upon retreat from Moscow in 1812)
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 1, 2012
"If they had built it closer to Chicago, more people could see it." — visitor to the locks at Sault Ste. Marie
AMERICA'S BEST KEPT SECRET. That's the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 26, 2012
"Zeitgeist, n. German, the general trend of thought and feeling of an era" [rationales plus emotions (literally "Age-spirit")]
GLOBAL WARMING? BAH HUMBUG! I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 13, 2012
"Despite all the evidence against it, the modern liberal mind believes his agenda is good social science. It is, in fact, bad science fiction." — Dr. Lyle . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 8, 2012
A FEW TOPICS SUGGESTED BY THE READER'S DIGEST:
- "The prospects for solar power"
- "Do European women make better wives?"
- "The spread of grass-roots . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 31, 2012
"This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 24, 2012
"If you missed my column last week, shame, shame." — CD
"WHO RAISED THE PRICE OF FOOD?" [not me, said the little red hen]
"WHO RAISED THE PRICE OF . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 16, 2012
"It was so cold in Europe this winter that one environmentalist was seen with his hands in his own pockets." — anon.
"To save gas, plan your next trip . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 10, 2012
"dictatorship, n, 1. The form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator;
2. absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or CONTROL." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 3, 2012
I THOUGHT I WAS IMAGINING THINGS. On a visit to Monticello the other day, I was the first tourist to arrive, and was greeted at the front door by ol' T.J. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 18, 2012
"The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 12, 2012
[This is an open letter to my Alumni Assn.]
TO:
John Allen, Senior Editor, "ON WISCONSIN"
Wisconsin Alumni Association
Madison, Wisconsin
First, I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 4, 2012
"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples." — George Burns
"When you're green, you're growing. When you're . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 31, 2012
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 22, 2012
"The report speaks for itself. It's a very good report. It's a very long report. I haven't read the report yet."
- UK Member of Parliament
"In my opinion . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 11, 2012
"I shouldn't say I'm a vegetarian because I love sweets." — LaToya Jackson (the "365 Stupidest Things Ever Said" calendar (January 10, 2007)
RESOLVING . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 31, 2011
"What raised us to the present happy state? How did we accomplish the Revolution? . . . The Government has been in the hands of the people . . . Had the people . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 29, 2011
"Great Danes are just, like, so great, aren't they? They're just, like, big dogs! I know! Yeah, yeah. Great Danes are great. OMG, they just so are!" — . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 23, 2011
The President's "tax cut": This is the 'GREAT Society'? Or Grinch City?
"As I see it, everyone's troubles began because of the tax cut the President . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 22, 2011
"It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg if a man says there is no God or 20 gods." — Thomas Jefferson
"The diversity crowd doesn't really . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 15, 2011
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. . . . You can't make anything up anymore. The world itself is a satire. All . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 10, 2011
MURRAY and Art Buchwald were boyhood heroes of mine, and I once wrote an imaginary interview between Abe Lincoln and Andy Rooney (the latter interviewing the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 4, 2011
"Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continued . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 26, 2011
"We were always subject to pressure from the cause people . . from women, or militants, or college groups. If I had it to do all over again, I'd learn to tell . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 19, 2011
"[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 10, 2011
"Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country . . but never in Chicago. So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 5, 2011
"Economics is about 5 percent money and 95 percent psuychology." — C. Dahlgren, www.renewamerica.com/columns/dahlgren/110908
THAT WAS A TYPO, BUT . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 27, 2011
"In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 21, 2011
"How can this man know letters, having never learned? . . . Can anything good come out of Samaria?" — The Bible
There are some sentences that should . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 14, 2011
"Every rod and staff of empire is truly crooked at the top." — Bacon
"THE WORDS OF AMOS, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 30, 2011
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all of the time." — Abraham . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 20, 2011
"From Lake Superior's southern shore to the Door County peninsula, the vast pinestral forests of the north woods give off an exhilarating scent that spells . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 15, 2011
"Finding good quotations isn't hard, but setting them in a certain order is something else." — Ecclesiastes 12 (paraphrased)
"Man exploits man. Under . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 8, 2011
EVERY HEAD IN THE ESTABLISHMENT TURNED, when the tall dark stranger came in the door. Because it was a Friday night, every stool at the bar was occupied except . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 3, 2011
"Had I . . . lived the life of a Collegiate Professor, shut up in the narrow walls of a library, I consider that I should have had my knowledge of mankind so . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 26, 2011
"Send me men to match my mountains." — inscription on State Capitol complex in Sacramento
THOSE KINDS OF MEN SEEM TO BE MISSING IN AMERICA THESE DAYS, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 18, 2011
"Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them." — Alex Tolstoy (1817-1875)
"There is nothing so ignorant . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 12, 2011
Shoot if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag, she said.
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1863), on a 90-year-old Maryland woman who stared . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 6, 2011
"This is a sit-com of the insane. I don't think God's writing this anymore, becaise God is not cruel, and this is getting beyond insanity." — Rush . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 31, 2011
"I have often thought and written that if the United States were ever to have a Caesar, a true subverter of the state, 1) he would attract to himself all the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 23, 2011
"To my mind the power possessed and exercised by the bureaucrats in Washington represents the most dangerous situation in America . If the wrong man should come . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 16, 2011
"The clueless media, in pursuit of the scare du jour, so us a nasty disservice by focusing on the wrong things. Because of the constant parade of frightening . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 10, 2011
"There are real problems in the world. The media ought to focus on them." — John Stossel ("Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity")
"Cast the net on the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 3, 2011
"The gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 26, 2011
"Student radicals behaved like feral beasts not only because of the group dynamic of a crowd, but because they had no criticism." — Ann Coulter, re 1960s . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 19, 2011
"Among the antiquated institutions which had to be abolished as obstuctions to real progress were, religion, family life, private property [etc[ . . Religion . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 9, 2011
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." — Herb Stein, economist
RADICALS IN MADISON ARE PARTYING LIKE THERE'S S'NO TOMORROW (and the way the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 28, 2011
The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 18, 2011
"Despite what some in the press may say, we who are proud to call ourselves 'conservative' are not a minority of a minority party; we are part of the great . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 10, 2011
"During Bush's term, gas prices went down 9 percent, adjusted for inflation. Yet, preposterously, he was excoriated for allegedly colluding with 'big oil' to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 29, 2011
"Pravda nyet izvestia; izvestia neyt pravda" ['News isn't truth; truth isn't news': popular saying in the old USSR]
BRACE YOURSELF. A huge disinformation . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 22, 2011
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire (1694-1778)
THAT IS "SO 18TH CENTURY," EH? So trite. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 13, 2011
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." — Thomas Sowell
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 8, 2011
"Democrats can recover from the disappointments of [the 2010] election and set the stage for success in 2012. But to do so we must learn from Tuesday's results . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 2, 2011
"Then those who feared the Lord spoke often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him [for/of] those . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 30, 2011
". . . O brave new world,
That has such people in it."
— William Shakespeare
"Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of England . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 25, 2011
"This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 18, 2011
"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of . . .
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." — Lord Tennyson
"PRAY" IS A 4-LETTER WORD TO . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 16, 2011
"This is a Pearl Harbor moment for Wisconsin." — Democrat state senator (re Walker reforms)
The East bowed down before the blast,
In patient, deep . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 13, 2011
"If there is no God, what makes the next Kleenex pop out?" — anonymous
"If God allows such things to happen, He must be cruel." — anonymous
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 10, 2011
"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all means . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 6, 2011
"The cost of electricity will necessarily skyrocket." — B. Oboma (2008)
"I DON'T RECOGNIZE THE U.P.," wrote a pen pal of mine. I laughed and said that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 1, 2011
"YOU'RE FLIPPING DEAD."- Wisconsin legislator (D, Oshkosh) to fellow legislator (R, Oshkosh) upon Assembly passage of the Budget Repair bill [paraphrased, of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 23, 2011
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within . . . the traitor moves amongst those rustling through the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 15, 2011
"Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today." — Sen. Lindsay Graham
TAKE THE BLM, THE LBM, AND MLB, PLEASE. Major . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 9, 2011
"My father, Walter, who now resides in heaven, always imparted to me, 'Greatness lies in your ability to overcome.'" — Michael Irvin
THIS IS A GOOD . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 6, 2011
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs and let in three." — Casey Stengel
I am the Captain of the Pinafore,
And a right good Captain too! . . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 1, 2011
Once more the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new,
And domes the red-plowed hills
With loving blue;
The black birds have their wills . . [etc]
— . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 25, 2011
"Moral considerations make up three quarters of the game: the relative balance of manpower accounts for only for the remaining quarter." — Napoleon I (176 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 21, 2011
"Our time is now." — President Reagan
[In view of the weather and other distractions, I am reposting a column from last October.]
EVERY HEAD IN THE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 11, 2011
"In those countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarcely call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 5, 2011
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth." — John Locke (1632-1664)
"Christianity is . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 24, 2010
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common . . . [but]
"All men are liable to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 21, 2010
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
- P.J O'Rourke
TIS THE SEASON OF GIVING, SO — I'm going to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 14, 2010
God is dead, the professors said,
At least the God of Judgment.
But an atheist's laugh is a poor exchange
For a Deity offended [and
Consequences . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 5, 2010
O the games people play now,
Every night and every day now!
— Joe South
MR. PRESIDENT, PLS LISTEN TO YOUR PEOPLE, NOT YOUR "MARXIST PROFESSORS"! As . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 27, 2010
[According to the Rasmussen poll, only 54 percent of today's Americans agree that "Thanksgiving is one of our most important holidays." Groundhog Day probably . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 21, 2010
"It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 14, 2010
"IF THE VERY OLD WILL REMEMBER, THE VERY YOUNG WILL LISTEN." — Native American saying (Chief Dan George)
I'm very old. I can remember the 1960s, sorry . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 7, 2010
"If the very old will remember, the very young will listen." — Native American saying
MAYBE IT WAS AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE. It was a stormy night and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 2, 2010
STRANGE HEADLINES AND HAPPENINGS (PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE):
Detroit (ESPN)- "Lions beat Washington on eve of elections."
Washington (AP)- "GOP defies . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 31, 2010
"If the very old will remember, the very young will listen." — Chief Dan George
HALLOWEEN ON SUNDAY AND ELECTION DAY ON TUESDAY? Two out of three ain't . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 26, 2010
CHOOSING THE BEST LIBERAL QUOTATIONS OF ALL TIME ISN'T EASY, but here goes nothing:
"The era of big government is over." — Wm. Jefferson Blythe . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 19, 2010
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." — Hamilton Fish (American statesman)
"It is unfortunate, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 12, 2010
"Do not take Freedom for granted. It can be taken in a minute." — Michael Savage (author of best-seller "Trickle Up Poverty")
"I thought there was . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 2, 2010
"Our time is now." — President Reagan
EVERY HEAD IN THE ESTABLISHMENT TURNED, when the tall dark stranger came in the door. Because it was a Friday . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 27, 2010
"These are the times that try men's souls." — T. Paine
[Note: I'm taking the week off with a gathering of friends in Wisconsin Dells. I'm giving the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 17, 2010
"I have found a great hunger in America for a spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be based on a Higher Law; for a return to traditions and values that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 10, 2010
"The border is as secure as it's ever been." — Janet Reno-Napolitano
"If you can't give me your word of honor, will you give me your promise?" — Sam . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 2, 2010
"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 (in a less . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 26, 2010
"With the impulsiveness of youth and the recklessness of inexperience, the students went in this direction [revolution] much farther than their elders, and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 18, 2010
"As fiercely as ever he had arraigned the royal tyrant in the past, Patrick Henry denounced the presidential tyrant of the future, who would take the field at . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 14, 2010
"Send me men to match my mountains." — inscription on State Capitol complex in Sacramento
THOSE KINDS OF MEN SEEM TO BE FLEEING CALIFORNIA THESE DAYS. As a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 7, 2010
"Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them." — Alexi Tolstoy (1817-1875)
"There is nothing so ignorant as . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 31, 2010
"The thing that was done shall be done again; there's nothing new under the sun." — Solomon (977 BC)
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 28, 2010
"New estimates from the White House on Friday predict that the budget deficit will reach a record $1.47 trillion this year. The government is borrowing 41 cents . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 25, 2010
"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well." — Louis Kronenberger (1904-80)
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 18, 2010
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 8, 2010
"We are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart . . I serve as a . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 30, 2010
"What's this country coming to?" — Senator Robert Byrd
SOME KIDS BORN IN 1980 ARE ALREADY "GRAND" PARENTS. A school board in Massachusetts evidently thinks . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 19, 2010
"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and . . . Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 14, 2010
"Reaganism and masculinity go together. In this course we will examine the relationships between popular conceptions of masculinity and [take a breath] . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 5, 2010
"I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 29, 2010
"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 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 22, 2010
"The real enemy of clear thinking is the script. We think the world is supposed to go by a familiar plot. And when the facts conflict with the script, we edit . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 15, 2010
"To educate a [person] in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." — Theodore Roosevelt
MORALITY INCLUDES HONESTY IN ECONOMICS AND OTHER . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 6, 2010
"The border is as secure as it's ever been." — Janet Reno-Napolitano
"If you can't give me your word of honor, will you give me your promise?" — Sam . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 25, 2010
"Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race who runs by . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 16, 2010
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military . . we've got to have a civilian security force just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. We . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 12, 2010
"I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?" — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Our traditional two party system has . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 5, 2010
"It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 27, 2010
"It's not that our liberal friends are ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." — Ronald Reagan
MEMO TO THE PROFESSOR-IN-CHIEF, IF I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 25, 2010
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 22, 2010
JUST DON'T CELEBRATE TOO HARD JUST YET; America had already told you "no," and now, like yer momma, she's gonna say that "No" means "NOOOO!" The President says . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 17, 2010
"HOWDY," said George, with a smile.
Yes, I'm sure it was him. I've been to Mt. Rushmore you know. Several times, in fact. I knew it was him, but I tried to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 13, 2010
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." — R. Reagan
"Put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite; don't desire the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 7, 2010
" . . . And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them." — Jeremiah
Tom Fenton was one of the most experienced correspondents in the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 2, 2010
"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment." — Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
THE COMING CULTURE WAR WILL BE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 24, 2010
"What I do say is, that if we would supplant the opinions and policy of our fathers in any case, we should do so upon evidence so conclusive, and argument so . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 22, 2010
"I'm so tired of hearing how smart the Founding Fathers were!" — Fred Kessler (Wisconsin state legislator)
EVERY GENERATION SUPPOSES THAT IT IS MORE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 15, 2010
"Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored — contrivances such as groping for some . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 10, 2010
"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-face and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 2, 2010
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate." — Yogi Berra
YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME. But they certainly CAN HOPE, can't they? Babe Ruth was once . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 28, 2010
"Do you suffer from toenail fungus?" — radio commercial
I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START. The last two weeks have been byond parody. We were supposed to be in . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 24, 2010
"For the first time [in my lifetime], I'm proud of Massachusetts." — Rush Limbaugh
Dad:
Kids, listen up; your mother and I have been talking, and guess . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 18, 2010
"I have a dream that America will rise to greatness, again. But before that dream is realized, we've got to recall what freedom means. We've got to understand . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 12, 2010
"All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung — the iron lung of politics — and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 6, 2010
"The Left claims the Right is anti-intellectual.. Thomas Sowell shows there's a good reason for being so — without being anti-intelligence, anti-facts, or . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 29, 2009
"Environmental alarms have been screeching for so long that, like car alarms, they are now just irritating background noise." — N.Y. Times (3/12/05) www . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 22, 2009
"Possessing a chosen country . . acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensation proves that It delights in the happiness of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 17, 2009
"I can't be responsible for every under-capitalized company in America." — Hillary Clinton (on HillaryCare)
"There is a 75 percent chance that the Arctic . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 11, 2009
"Never think that you've seen the last of anything." — Eudora Welty, UW '29 ("The Optimist's Daughter"; 1969)
"A nation that is morally dead will soon be . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 10, 2009
Is health care "reform" making you sick to your stomach?
Is the Climategate fraud driving you to drink?
Are the Liberals giving you irritable bowel . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 2, 2009
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 25, 2009
"Beware the fury of a patient man." — John Dryden (1631-1700)
" . . when men set themselves to cultivate skill in disputation, regarding the matter . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 20, 2009
"SNOB originally meant a 'shoemaker.' Cambridge University students of the late 18th century took it as a slang term for a 'townsman, not a member of the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 16, 2009
"GM reports $1.2 Billion loss; consumer 'sentiment' declines 'unexpectedly'"? — news headline
AS IF THINGS WEREN'T BAD ENOUGH ALREADY, another headline . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 13, 2009
". . that eternal want of pence, which vexes public men . . "
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things . . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 10, 2009
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish the dictatorship to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 6, 2009
"It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 1, 2009
"The diversity crowd doesn't really believe in diversity. In fact, what they're really aiming for is conformity of opinion." — Linda Chavez (06/05/09)
www . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 28, 2009
"THIS know also . . perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous . . ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 23, 2009
"Over-specialized elites often can't tell the difference between a wave and a RIP tide." — C.D. http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/dahlgren/090325
"'There . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 18, 2009
"When you come to a fork in the road [to the left, DON'T] take it." — Yogi Berra [paraphrased]
CANDIDATE OBAMA PROMISED THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 12, 2009
"The left believes in 'experts.' The liberal is bowled over by the title 'Nobel laureate.' The conservative is more likely to wonder why a Nobel laureate in . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
October 6, 2009
"Hugo Chavez is trying to do for all of Latin America, you know, they've been trying to do it for years . . to eliminate poverty." — Barbara Walters, 3/16/07 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 26, 2009
"The bulk of the intellectual community almost automatically favors any expansion of government power so long as it is advertised as a way to protect . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 19, 2009
"Just report the news; don't encourage it." — 1960s complaint about the media
"Don't encourage the news, but at least report it, PLEASE!" — 2009 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 9, 2009
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them b y enlightening them. . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 5, 2009
"To the Law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them; and they [shall be] hungry, and it shall . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
September 2, 2009
"If our government is not going to hold our taxpayer-supported academic institutions accountable, then we must." — Chuck Norris ("Black Belt Patriotism")
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 24, 2009
"There is nothing so ignorant as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in." — Will Rogers
WHEN I WAS ADMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 16, 2009
"There must be something wrong with the universal education [that] has made men the victims of charlatans in every field of human activity." — Dr. Arthur . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 8, 2009
"Broadcast television characters are almost three times as likely to have sex with a child, an animal or a corpse than with a spouse, a study released Tuesday . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 5, 2009
"Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Younger parents aren't sure that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
August 1, 2009
"When Obama calls it 'end-of-life care,' what he really means is 'end of care' . . . Tony Soprano has taken over the government, and the private sector is an . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 25, 2009
"There is more of the fool in human nature than of the wise . . . It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty . . . There is a superstition in . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 20, 2009
"We know we spend a huge amount of money that last year of life. More and more people are gonna say, I don't want people poking tubes, and, you know, uh, doing . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 14, 2009
"Charles de Gaulle not only memorized the answers he gave at press conferences, but required questioners to memorize the questions he gave them to ask him." — . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 6, 2009
"The state cannot pay its bills, poorly educates its young, and its taxation punishes whatever success that its suffocating regulatory regime does not prevent." . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
July 1, 2009
"He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving?" — Owen Meredith (Earl of Lytton; 1831-1891)
"Genius does what it must, and talent does what it . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 24, 2009
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there." — Yogi Berra
I SAW A BUMPER STICKER THAT SAID, "I . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 20, 2009
"I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have any temper, you don't have any passion." — Michael Bloomberg (2002)
TODAY IS JUNE 20TH, . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 12, 2009
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship." — George Orwell
WE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 8, 2009
"The diversity crowd doesn't really believe in diversity. In fact, what they're really aiming for is conformity of opinion." — Linda Chavez (06/05/09)
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
June 2, 2009
"Based solely on a far-Left agenda that includes a plan to control worldwide energy production, the climate change hysteria movement has jumped the shark."
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 26, 2009
"Global warming may not be such a new thing — or, at least, that's what some UW climatologists suspect. A study by Stephen Vavrus, John Kutzbach, and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 19, 2009
"What it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and . . Rove are going to be executed . . . I don't know how I feel about it because I'm basically against . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 10, 2009
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than when the cunning men pass for wise . . . Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." — Francis Bacon (1561-1626 . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
May 3, 2009
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." — George Orwell
IT'S THE SECOND DAY OF MAY, AND OUR . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 25, 2009
"I owe these unions . . When they call me, I try to call them right back. I don't mind feeling obligated." — Barack Obama ("Audacity of Hope")
THAT ONE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 20, 2009
". . you may decide that I've been right about what I've been saying in this column for the last six years. And why I often feel like an alien in a strange land . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 16, 2009
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy, because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation."
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 11, 2009
". . I have seen such selfishness and littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, although we are engaged in the best cause that . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 4, 2009
"It is peculiarly fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation, and in sorrowful remembrance of our own faults and crimes as a nation and . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
April 1, 2009
"The people who were first in line to promote the sexual 'revolution' of the 60s and 70s ['stay out of our bedroom'] are the same people who are now acting like . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 25, 2009
"There is no shortage of lawyers in Washington, DC. In fact, there may be more lawyers than people." - Sandra Day O'Connor
THE COUNTY I GREW UP IN HAD MORE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 20, 2009
"Paradoxically, the people who like say that public servants are "all alike," and "they're all crooks," are the very same people who now want politicians to . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 16, 2009
"For years we have been shushed like children, and told that there are no simple answers." — President Reagan
IT'S TIME FOR CHRISTIANS TO STOP GOING TO THE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 13, 2009
"We will bury you." — Nikita Khrushchev (September 17, 1959)
"Behold, the people are one, and they have one language, and this they begin to do; and now . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 10, 2009
"The loss of lives that might have otherwise been creatively lived scars the mind of the civilized world." — General Dwight D. Eisenhower (on WW2 "casualties" . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 5, 2009
"I would venture to say that the students at [Monica] Goodling's law school at Regent University are far more impressive than those at the Cornell agriculture . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
March 1, 2009
"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 24, 2009
"It is now life, and not art, that requires the willing suspension of disbelief." — Lionel Trilling
WE YOOPERS WEREN'T BORN YESTERDAY. We know that there's . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 17, 2009
". . the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 12, 2009
"If any man at this day sincerely believes that proper division of local from Federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 9, 2009
"The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." — Nigel Calder, International . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
February 4, 2009
"HOW COLD DO YOU WANT IT?" — Jim Ott (Wisconsin legislator, retired weatherman)
IT'S SO COLD IN SOUTH DAKOTA, Tom Daschle can't afford to pay his income . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 31, 2009
"Chatham heart-sick of his country's shame." — William Cowper (1731-1800)
"Necessity [desperation] is the plea [excuse] for every infringement of human . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 27, 2009
"Reality is just a crutch for people who can't deal with drugs." — Lily Tomlin
"Hollywood is where if you don't have happiness, you send out for it." — . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 24, 2009
"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 20, 2009
"I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 16, 2009
"The spark from heaven falls. Who picks it up? The crowd? Never. The individual? Always . . .
"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 11, 2009
"For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate! . . .
"It's North you may run to the rime-ringed . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
January 3, 2009
"Do good, O Lord, unto those who be good, and to those who are upright in their hearts." — King David
"Liberals seen to have hit upon a reverse Christ . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 22, 2008
'I'm already sick of winter, and we have nine days to go before it officially begins.' — resident of Portland, Maine (12/12/08)
FROM PORTLAND, OREGON TO . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 11, 2008
"Politicians will never have a fear of the Constitution in a nation where the people never have a fear of their Creator." — author unknown
THIS MAY BE MY . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 9, 2008
[This is an excerpt from "Unapologetic elitists and other kleptomaniacs" (with some flavoring added) http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/dahlgren/081124 ]
. . .
Curtis Dahlgren
December 5, 2008
"The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle." — Senator Eugene McCarthy
BARRY GOLDWATER RECOMMENDED SAWING OFF THE EASTERN . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 27, 2008
"A society needs only one generation to abandon . . its culture, for that culture to become an alien, lifeless irrelevance . . [and] the cultural . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 24, 2008
THE OTHER NIGHT, from cares exempt,
I slept — and what do you think I dreamt?
I dreamt that somehow I had come
To dwell in Topsy-Turveydom! -
Where vice . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 20, 2008
"Do not become a beggar by banqueting on borrowing." — Ecclesiasticas (Apocrypha)
"Magna est veritas et praevalet" ("Great is truth and it prevails.") — . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 15, 2008
For all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
— John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
"Patriotism is as much a virtue as . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 7, 2008
"I don't care if the cat is black or white — as long as it's a good mouser." — author unknown
PRESIDENT BUSH'S DOG BIT A REPORTER, RIGHT AFTER THE . . .
Curtis Dahlgren
November 3, 2008
'It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace . . [that] Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper . . .
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