Jim Wagner column
Jim Wagner is a retired businessman and freelance writer. His degree is in psychology with a minor in English from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where he lived, worked, farmed, and studied for nine years after his repudiation of the Vietnam War.
His profound concern for matters of good and evil in the world and in the workings of politics, the justice system and religion was forged and tempered during his six years as owner and administrator of a group home for delinquent boys in southern CA.
His passion for freedom and love of the outdoors took him to NW Montana where he has enjoyed thirty years of hunting, fishing, and horse packing into the wilds.
He and his wife Betty have two sons and six grandchildren who are his joy and the impetus for his desire to return America's culture to God and honor.
His profound concern for matters of good and evil in the world and in the workings of politics, the justice system and religion was forged and tempered during his six years as owner and administrator of a group home for delinquent boys in southern CA.
His passion for freedom and love of the outdoors took him to NW Montana where he has enjoyed thirty years of hunting, fishing, and horse packing into the wilds.
He and his wife Betty have two sons and six grandchildren who are his joy and the impetus for his desire to return America's culture to God and honor.
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August 20, 2024
How many times since they dredged Kamela Harris out of the bilge of Lost Ship Biden have you heard the movers and shakers of Progressivism tell us we must . . .
Jim Wagner
May 30, 2024
This is the second installment of a two-part series exploring the ways in which the vocabulary of Islam exposes the true nature of Islam. For any who missed . . .
Jim Wagner
May 27, 2024
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. – Albert . . .
Jim Wagner
May 21, 2024
Votes! That is the short answer to this perplexing question. In today’s Western democracies, Allah can and does deliver solid and reliable blocks of votes . . .
Jim Wagner
May 8, 2024
Current rioting at our major universities draws our attention once again to the perennial conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors. But more ominously, . . .
Jim Wagner
December 27, 2021
“When an opponent declares ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already…. What are you? You will pass on. . . .
Jim Wagner
December 21, 2021
As a counterpoint to Edmund Burke and George Santayana, let me start with an admonition: Those destined to repeat history are first doomed to forget it. A . . .
Jim Wagner
December 13, 2021
As the Neo-fascist government of Vladimir Putin amasses troops and armor along the Ukrainian border, his propaganda machine churns out a contradictory narrative . . .
Jim Wagner
October 26, 2021
Democrats inflate the Federal labor force almost as reliably as they inflate our money supply. In effect, they print new job positions the same way they print . . .
Jim Wagner
October 13, 2021
As many have noted, our God given rights are now steadily being suppressed in the name of a very old delusion with the new and catchy name of “Equity.” . . .
Jim Wagner
July 27, 2021
Imagine all the people living for today! Oh, you may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one.
A dreamer? No, John Lennon! While the whole world . . .
Jim Wagner
January 20, 2021
In a rather heated recent blogger exchange, one correspondent observed that the legitimacy of our November election was so obvious that those claiming the vote . . .
Jim Wagner
October 27, 2020
After all the bitter recriminations that have been fired at Donald Trump (and fallen far short of the mark), it puzzles me that no one has written an expose on . . .
Jim Wagner
June 9, 2020
A curious thought experiment has just occurred to me. Bear in mind that this is only a first draft. I am merely thinking out loud, so to speak, and so I am . . .
Jim Wagner
June 7, 2020
The Governor of Illinois has released a video in which one of his spokespersons explains what constitutes a “Covid death.” That explanation was so stunning . . .
Jim Wagner
May 25, 2020
This morning I received the following note from a childhood friend who experienced some hellacious ground combat in Vietnam.
Upon returning home from the . . .
Jim Wagner
May 23, 2020
“Never Trump!” That slogan has a ring to it, doesn’t it? And rightly so, because those two words incorporate perhaps the most succinct and self . . .
Jim Wagner
May 11, 2020
The CDC now acknowledges a death rate for coronavirus of 1%, a grudging admission that its earlier death rate estimates of 4% and higher vastly overstated the . . .
Jim Wagner
April 28, 2020
My Dear Friend, (Name withheld on request.)
It seems we’ve come full circle since the Kavanagh nomination ripped the wheels off our initial friendly . . .
Jim Wagner
April 17, 2020
Nearly a month ago I proposed the then novel theory that the officially reported coronavirus death rate was exaggerating the actual lethality of the Wuhan Flu . . .
Jim Wagner
March 23, 2020
My search for coronavirus artifacts began in the vast sedimentary sludge of late Holocene reporting from national health centers around the world. (That is, . . .
Jim Wagner
February 27, 2020
In the course of a recent internet chat about Donald Trump, someone raised an interesting question. What single attribute of our president best encourages . . .
Jim Wagner
December 19, 2019
The Democrats are crowing now, claiming that the inspector general did not find any evidence of bias in his investigation of the FBI's handling of certain . . .
Jim Wagner
May 9, 2019
In the years preceding the belated denouement of Apartheid in South Africa, some black Africans were apprehensive that a takeover by the Marxist ANC (African . . .
Jim Wagner
April 16, 2019
If you allow your mind to travel back through time to the arrival of Columbus in the new world, you are nearly half way to the laying of the foundation for the . . .
Jim Wagner
October 17, 2018
On July 14, 1789, responding to hysterical rumors that political prisoners were being tortured in a medieval fortress in the center of Paris, a mob of French . . .
Jim Wagner
September 25, 2018
Most educated people are at least passingly familiar with Arthur Miller's 1953 fictionalized account of the Salem Witch Trials, in which wild accusations of . . .
Jim Wagner
May 30, 2018
Nothing was quite so unimportant to the founders of this nation as the independence of the Department of Justice. If I close my eyes, I can almost see the . . .
Jim Wagner
May 25, 2018
As the lead singer for the punk rock band "Dead Kennedys" once put it, "if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street..., . . .
Jim Wagner
April 3, 2018
How often have you heard that assault rifles should be banned because they are not intended for hunting? Invariably, in the face of that argument some well . . .
Jim Wagner
January 17, 2018
Last Thursday, it is alleged, Donald Trump referred to certain third world countries as dung holes. In context, he wanted to know why Democrats insist on . . .
Jim Wagner
March 1, 2017
The devolving saga of the world's most dangerous faggot is tragic for a multitude of reasons, not only on a personal level but more particularly as it is . . .
Jim Wagner
February 15, 2017
I am dismayed at the lack of legal insight exhibited by the vast majority of commentators in their examination of President's Trump's executive order . . .
Jim Wagner
October 26, 2016
Over the course of this election cycle we Americans seem to have entirely lost our reason. For example, in the face of a deluge of emails which reveal deep . . .
Jim Wagner
June 18, 2016
In the denouement of the tragic gay massacre in Orlando, a friend sent me three questions that he said were provoked by Dennis Prager's observation of an . . .
Jim Wagner
May 25, 2016
Denis Prager has recently offered what seems to me a startlingly clear-headed perspective on the "Never Trump" mantra. http://townhall.com/columnists/ . . .
Jim Wagner
November 24, 2015
Sometimes I'm slow to understand the motives behind our government's foreign policy. So perhaps someone can answer me this. Obama is now chastising those of . . .
Jim Wagner
July 30, 2015
I write this, my friends and brothers in Christ, with a heavy heart. The first image below represents, in my view, the darkest day in the life of my Church. . . .
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