Measures of Performance and Measures of Effectiveness
Measures of Performance and Measures of Effectiveness; It is the difference between doing things right and doing the right things
Education
Our Great U.S. Culture War Series, No.3a.
From 1610 to 1793, there were different Enlightenments in France, England, Scotland, and America.
Woke = Marxism
Time to call out the real enemy of America and the West author “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy …
Parents Have the Final Say!
According to a recent survey conducted by the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, 63% of the respondents believe that parents should have the final say, and should be able to opt out their children out of, morally objectionable or inappropriate content, while 37% percent say public schools should have the final say, with no opt …
Minarchy and Education Finance
Whither Education I’m not normally a fan of “quick fix” solutions. When it comes to higher education in the United States, though, disaster as it is, I think there is one action we, as a country, could take that would fix most of the stupidity in our college/university systems very quickly, and that is to …
This Memorial Day, Honor Our Fallen by Not Giving Up
The reality is that our domestic communists have only one path to victory – convince us to give up. Our confidence is their greatest obstacle.
Human Secularist Totalitarianism in These United States
Human Secularist Totalitarianism is mouthful. Way too long for a bumper sticker. HST is a lousy acronym and already belongs to former President Truman. Yet, knowing what this long label means is important to every American. Human Secular Totalitarianism spawned the latest evil ideas to contend in our politics and, consequently, every aspect of our …
High School Boys Send a Clear Message to Trans-obsessed State Legislators – Report
A group of boys at Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon, showed state lawmakers exactly what they thought of HB 3294, the “Menstrual Dignity Act,” legislation that passed in 2021. They pulled the newly installed feminine hygiene dispenser off the boys room wall and threw it in a toilet, precisely where the unnecessary and …
Minarchy and Commencement
It’s that time of year again, when high school and college graduates all over the country are trying on caps and gowns and making post-graduation plans. Today, for the ninth year, I will present here my own carefully prepared commencement speech to those grads – presented here because there’s damn little chance of my being …
What Sane Person….
I’ve lost my country and can’t seem to find it. Did I misplace it, or has it been changed so much by the woke, hateful left, that it is no longer recognizable?
How American Wokeness & Cancel Culture Mirror China’s Cultural Revolution
American Leftists are busily trying to recreate Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution and destroying our country in the process.
Will We Keep Our Republic?
Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it.
Call Me Crazy
In Saul Alinsky’s Marxist handbook “Rules for Radicals,” Alinsky advises that “ridicule is your most powerful weapon.” He is correct.
Elon Musk: The Woke Mind Virus Infecting Us
In late April, Elon Musk went on Real Time With Bill Maher and discussed the “woke mind virus” that’s infecting nearly everything nowadays.
Trifle With Nature at Your Peril, be it Human or Otherwise. Is Society Becoming Zanier and More Insane by the Day? Part 2
The Doctor is in, But He/She/It/ZE Thinks Your Child is Malleable and Experiment Material
School Solutions
If your boss tells you it’s “not acceptable” that you failed to do something that they wanted you to do, you could reasonably take that as a threat to your future employment. However, if the thing they wanted you to do is vote, then their words are a likely violation of Idaho law (Idaho Code …
A Republic, If We Can Keep It.
I am certainly no classical scholar, I leave that to men like Victor Davis Hansen whom I greatly admire. But I have read some of the ancients. And truth be known, they were prescient in their thoughts. And eternal in their wisdom. We simply haven’t, and don’t, pay attention. So the following offers a few …
The Tragedy of the Commons, Part 3: Wicked Logic
The Tragedy of the Commons: Wicked Logic In The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actors, I discussed linear vs. spiral logic. I suggested that western logic tended to be more linear and Islamic and other cultures, perhaps more spiral. But that is a generalization based on today’s conditions. In the past, western logic tended …
Transurrection Part II
Part one of Montana’s Transurrection is the only accurate eyewitness account of what happened in the Montana legislature when radical leftists showed their willingness to act violently and disrupt the business of all Montanans on April 24th. In part one, I described what I witnessed outside the Capitol building and then in the House gallery. …
The Tragedy of the Commons: The Rational Actor
The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actor This is a follow on to Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons. It specifically looks at the rationality implied in Ostrom’s 8 points and the Rational Actor/Choice, Game, and Agency theories. What happens if the rational hypothesis fails or is different across cultures or relevant ranges? I …