DENNIS PATRICK: “THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”
I spend a lot of time reading these days. At the risk of sounding wonkish, I must highlight one more book worth discussing. That would be Samuel P. Huntington’s (1927-2008)…...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2026
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
DENNIS PATRICK: BLACK HISTORY MONTH – A SIDE NOTE
An odd nod to Black History Month – odd because the following two gents would never be nominated by liberal Black history proponents. These two influential Blacks taught me what…...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
DENNIS PATRICK: FROM TOYS TO TARGETS—DRONE EVOLUTION
Getting older does have advantages. With modes of technology advancing so rapidly, it becomes possible for folks my age to see the birth of technologies forward into their maturity. Take…...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
DENNIS PATRICK: SCHWEIZER’S INVISIBLE COUP
My last two columns addressed different aspects of illegal immigration. But why stop there? Consider a third view probing the world of illegals. How many times have we heard politicians…...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
DENNIS PATRICK: FUNDING ANTI-ICE PROTESTS
How popular are the anti–Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protests in the US? A leading China analyst, Gordon Chang, warns that the increasing surge of protests across the US may…...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
DENNIS PATRICK: IMMIGRATION JUDGE FIASCO
On December 30, 2025, ABC News reported more than 100 immigration judges were fired nationwide during 2025 - something that may affect the immigration backlog in the near term. Jeremiah…...
Thursday, January 22, 2026
DENNIS PATRICK: ILLEGAL ALIEN ROUNDUP
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency exists to fulfill a specific mission. That mission is to protect the United States through immigration enforcement and criminal investigations, with an…...
Thursday, January 15, 2026
DENNIS PATRICK: LAUGHING AT THE LIBS
This column could easily have been titled “Grist for Ridicule”. There is a way to deal with liberal-progressive change agents who would force their aberrant views on us. Laugh at…...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026
DENNIS PATRICK: BEING SITUATIONALLY AWARE
I came across an article the other day by David DeMay in The American Thinker written December 21, 2025, titled “Why America Must Relearn Situational Awareness”. I know this…...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: HOPE FOR A NEW YEAR
Somewhere it has been said that a person will identify with the Four Stages of Christmas between childhood and adulthood: I believed in Santa Claus. I believed my parents were…...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: THE CAROLS OF CHRISTMAS
Jingle Bells, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer greet Christmas shoppers in their hustle and bustle. Excitement builds to a crescendo. But after Christmas the commotion subsides. What then?…...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: FITNESS FOR LIFE
As the holidays beckon some folks are grudgingly considering physical fitness in their New Years resolutions. The over-50 crowd may feel like a million bucks and want to prove it.…...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS
Christmas ‘tis the season for giving! What better way to say “I love you” than with the gift of a book? As a prerequisite, a recipient should harbor a…...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: IT’S BACK - RANKED CHOICE VOTING
Want to hear about the 2026 and 2028 election fiascos in-the-making? Save this page for reference. Democrat activists advocate for adopting ranked choice voting (RCV) in future Democrat primaries. RCV…...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: SQUANTO, SAMOSET, AND MASSASOIT
The Thanksgiving story never gets old. Unfortunately, the facts are not well known. Most people have heard the names Samoset and Squanto. But who were they? The English Pilgrims, products…...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: LA NIÑA – HERE WE GO AGAIN
You think the weather last winter and spring was memorable? Prepare for more of the same. Old Man Winter has us in his cross hairs. Gather your heavy coats, mittens,…...
Thursday, November 06, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE
Here are a few lines saluting veterans on Veterans Day. They are taken from Rudyard Kipling and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Hearts of veterans everywhere will recognize the impressions, nostalgia, and…...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
How did the United States Congress put Americans, once again, into a government shutdown? I’ll describe the situation as I understand it. Every year the US Congress works on a…...
Friday, October 10, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: BITCOIN AFTERTHOUGHTS
What do readers want to read? Something different? A bit offbeat? Unusual and maybe ever so quirky? Over the years The Passing Scene published many varied topics of interest to…...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: THINKING ABOUT CRYPTOCURRENCY
We live in fast moving and interesting times. Who would have thought a few decades ago that a challenge to the US dollar as a medium of exchange would arise?…...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: KING CULTURAL DECLINE
Western civilization slowly slips away, and citizens barely perceive what is happening. It is not as if our civilization were stolen from under our noses but rather, citizens have failed…...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: LARGE NUMBERS BLUR THIS SMALL MIND
How big is “big?” How much is 100? 1,000? I cannot begin to visualize these numbers much less envision a million of anything! Suppose a couple celebrates 18,262 days of…...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: CHANGING SEASONS
Autumn! My favorite time of year! In my own egocentric way, I can picture Autumn being created just for me! Crisp morning air, the aroma of burning grass and leaves,…...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: BRITAIN’S RAPE GANG COVERUP
You might have seen a recent video of a young Scottish girl brandishing a knife and a hatchet to ward off a migrant man who had been harassing her and…...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: WHO IS JUDGE BOASBERG?
A direct answer to a simple question – one of President Trump’s lawfare nemesis, of course. Another question. Has the federal judiciary degenerated into an insolent “every judge for himself”…...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: KILLING OF AMERICA
Everyone knows by now that President Trump took over police operations in Washington, DC. Some approve; some don’t. Trump warned that this clean-up is “all going to happen very fast,…...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: MY SUMMER SHTICK
What happened with summer? As if in a rearview mirror, Memorial Day and Independence Day recedes in memory while Summer’s passing accelerates toward autumn. Summer passed so quickly. Northern hemisphere…...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: JUDICIAL INSURRECTION
A political conflagration accelerates when judicial gas is thrown on the fire. Everyone has heard of “lawfare”. And, if you know lawfare you will love the newest version -- “judicial…...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
DENNIS P ATRICK:: COMFORT IN A CUPColombians grow it. Bedouins chew it. Africans hoe it. Americans b
Colombians grow it. Bedouins chew it. Africans hoe it. Americans brew it. Coffee, a third world child adopted by Americans, is without question a favorite American beverage. In my case,…...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
DENNIS PATRICK: THE ENIGMATIC AUTOPEN
Why the kerfuffle over autopens? I could blithely pursue life with no awareness of such a device -- until the topic becomes front page news. On second thought, maybe I…...
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