Is Idiocracy Our Future?
Are we working to make Charles Krauthammer’s prophesy a reality – that our civilization will not end because of a cataclysmic disaster, but because we’ll just stop caring for ourselves?
Education
Turning America Back 50 Years Ago?
Are we turning America back to 1972? Here in 2022, there are too many similarities to America today and 1972
American Exceptionalism
American exceptionalism is a country created, and designed to be governed by its people with our rights guaranteed by God, not politicians.
Justice Alito Leaves UNC Lawyer Sputtering – Affirmative Action Destroyed
If Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s questioning of North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park, who is defending the University of North Carolina’s use of affirmative action in their admissions decisions, had been a chess game, I’m pretty sure the jurist would have announced, ‘Checkmate.’ Like a tiger toying with a kitten, Alito very efficiently struck what …
Critical Thinking and Policy: The Wars on Drugs and Poverty
Critical Thinking and Policy: The Wars on Drugs and Poverty In an effective government, the first rule of policy is to set goals and the implementing processes to accomplish them. Politicians and the bureaucracy, however, run the government. The first rule of politicians is to get re-elected. The first rule of bureaucrats is to perpetuate …
Troy Aikman Does Not Wear Combat Boots
Troy Aikman is an ESPN football commentator, former Dallas cowboy, and Hall of Fame quarterback. Last week he commented while on air about a lousy call by the officials in the Kansas City–Las Vegas game. Aikman was unhappy with the call because he felt the officials were being overprotective of the Las Vegas quarterback based …
Two Tales about the Catastrophe called Socialism
We hear a lot today about the alleged advantages of socialism over the capitalist system that has been the engine of wealth in the United States and the world.
Virginia Board of Education: Transgender Policy Part 1
Virginia Board of Education: Transgender Policy Part 1 This blog builds on Critical Thinking and Policy Development and Analysis, Critical Thinking: Logic and Rationality, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Key Components and Dimensions, Critical Thinking: Bounded Rationality and Time, Critical Thinking: Credence and Veracity, and A Solutions-Based Approach to Social Justice. These help look at …
Freedom of speech? Das Ist Verboten!
When freedom of speech is limited by Big Tech censoring social media or by outraged Karens de-platforming persons, then liberty is in jeopardy.
What Is A Man?
What is a man? For a long time, I couldn’t answer this question with certainty. Outside of the biological obviousness of what a man is, I couldn’t tell you what the essence of being a man is and if someone would have asked me this question in my younger years, I would have likely stumbled …
Critical Thinking: Credence and Veracity
Critical Thinking: Credence and Veracity Critical Thinking and Policy Development and Analysis introduced the concepts of credence and veracity and said they were two sides of the same coin. The coin’s value depends on its credence and veracity. The figure above aligns credence with the messenger and veracity with the message. It also adds …
The Only Good Indigenous People Are…
“Indigenous Peoples’ Day” is a poor substitute for Columbus Day. Columbus Day celebrates the awesome achievement of Western Civilization in the New World.
The “dumbing down” of college means mediocre education without rigor
The other day a front-page story in the New York Times grabbed my attention like few others. The headline read: “At N.Y.U., Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. Who Was to Blame?.” The answer, readers learned, was not the students but the award-winning professor who taught the class. To quote the story: “In the field of …
Of, By, and For the People – Chapter 10: Family
The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family.
Federal Judge Blasts Wokeness, Refuses to Hire Clerks from Yale Law and Urges Other Judges to Join
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James C. Ho took aim at Yale Law School during a keystone address at the Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society titled “Agreeing to Disagree — Restoring America by Resisting Cancel Culture” on Thursday. Citing the cancel culture that runs rampant at the Ivy League school, he told listeners …
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: Continued
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: Continued. The Virginia Board of Education posted the History and Social Studies Standards of Learning (SOLs) for comment. The 402 page document establishes what will be taught K-12 in Virginia Public Schools. The subject matter is covered well, but skewed with a focus on race, class, and gender. Significant omissions and …
Of, By and For the People – Chapter 8
A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: One Example
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: One Example, Part 1 of 2. The Virginia Board of Education posted the History and Social Studies Standards of Learning for comment. The 402 page document establishes what will be taught K-12 in Virginia Public Schools. The subject matter is covered well, but skewed with a focus on race, class, and gender. …
Looking For Racism; and Finding It
If you are continuously looking for racism, then you will find it, even in an old, abandoned cemetery. The left has brought this technique to new levels.
Asymmetric Warfare: The Democrat Appropriation of Marxism
Democrat appropriation of Marxism, the classic battle between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots,’ or as the French would say, the bourgeoise and the proletariat.