Thinking for Ourselves: Have We Forgotten How?
“Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.” — Voltaire on, thinking for ourselves, as opposed to allowing others to do so.
Education
Critical Thinking: Introduction to Key Components and Dimensions
Critical Thinking: Introduction to Key Components and Dimensions This series will address the components and dimensions of the figure above. The first installment summarizes the critical thinking framework. Subsequent installments will look at the components and dimensions in greater detail. This is an important and complex topic. The environment in which our government and corporations …
The Jesuits: God’s Soldiers to Catholic Storm Troopers to Gay Mafia
Up to 60 percent of Jesuits are gay, and the Lavendar Mafia wields enough power at the Vatican to seat a Pope…
The Safe and Secure Path to Another Dark Age (Pt I)
What leftists continue to propose, are policies guaranteeing a “Safe and Secure” Path to Another Dark Age.
What About Those Heroes?
It only takes time before the tyrant uses force, and it will be countered by force, eventually. So, what about those heroes?
The Anti-Southern Speech Police
Anti-Southern Speech Police, attacking the defense of anything Confederate, and of course, any truthful criticism of sexual dysphoria and homosexuality.
Bread and Circuses: Largesse Favors the Timid
Bread and Circuses: Largesse Favors the Timid If Fortune favors the bold, largess favors the timid. Largesse allows people to settle for less to avoid work, inhibits risk-taking, and dampens the drive to grow and to thrive. The bread and circuses approach to governance distracts a people of low virtue into a stupor where they …
The Wannabe Dictator Is No Longer A Wannabe
For the last seven plus years Democrats and their media have been calling Donald J. Trump every name in the book, a tyrant, fascist, Nazi…a wannabe dictator
Sean of the South Visits University of Alabama
The University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, is a unique place to visit, even for those who never attended.
Communist Chinese Political War Campaigns Exploit Social Media
The CCP is adapting its political warfare methods to exploit social media
Whack a Mole
I read lately that Planned Parenthood has changed their business model. Since the abortion industry has had its wings clipped, they have branched out into a new and exciting area. “Assisting” children into oblivion by being a provider for puberty blockers and giving counseling to aid them in their bodily mutilation pathway. When an ideology …
The First Amendment (Part 3)
Abridge—To limit; curtail. – American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
This is a 40 Year Fight…or More
The Great U.S. Culture War became an open Kultur Kampf in 1962. It took 60 years for one side, called “Commies” for short, to reach the top of institutions which define American Civilization by controlling our culture. It’ll take at least 40 years to pull the Commies down from the top and pull them up branch and root to win America back.
How Political Correctness & Cancel Culture are Destroying America (Part 2)
Vladimir Lenin, the man who in 1917 created the now-defunct one-party socialist state called The Soviet Union, understood how critical education is in molding pliant minds. “Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted,” he once said. Lenin knew that planting the seeds of communist …
Experts, All Around Us
If you go and sample Youtube, to see how to do something, or how to think about something, the experts are out in force, wanting you and I to believe something. Many are true experts, not trying to sell anything, except to make you think about what your lying eyes are telling you, and that …
Words Have Meaning
Someone is probably cursing me for saying that, but I’m in better company than Tucker Carlson. Namely, someone who gave Tucker a lot of praise: Rush Limbaugh. Just trying to help, Tucker. You are a gem. Rush was the one person I remember trying to pound that statement, “Words have meaning”, into his listeners, almost …
Using Proven Military Veterans to Address a Shortage of Teachers
Addressing a Shortage of Teachers John R. “Buck” Surdu The Free State of Florida, being short approximately 4,300 teachers for the upcoming school year, has hit upon an interesting plan: policies that promote and fast track veterans into teachers’ ranks. Years ago, many states, suffering from a dearth of math and science teachers offered to …
A Philadelphia Inquirer Opinion Writer Wants Sexualized Books in School Libraries, But Would She Allow Huckleberry Finn or Mein Kampf?
We have previously noted how the Central Bucks School District approved what The Philadelphia Inquirer called a “contentious” policy of not purchasing books with “sexualized content”. But the Inquirer’s Assistant Opinion Editor, Alison McCook, says that she wants her daughter to be able to read those books; does the Inky not pay her enough to …
Literary Classics Under Assault: ‘The Last Leaf’ by O. Henry
O. Henry was a prolific short story writer during the early part of the 20th Century. His work is being digitally dismantled word by word by none other than the U.S. State Department.
A Better Hate
My piece on “Good Hate” listed issues where the ideas of the Left lead to awful answers. Actually, their solutions make things worse. It’s good to hate these ideas. It’s even better to hate the origins and the outcomes of bad ideas. There’s good reasons for a better hate.