Dems Hate What Justice Thomas Stands For
Over the past three decades, Democrats and their media shills have painted the most negative image of Thomas in a relentless effort to discredit his every decision or dissent from the bench.
History
The Changing Shape of the American Protestant Church
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,” said Sir Winston Churchill in his speech to the meeting in the House of Lords, October 28, 1943, requesting that the House of Commons bombed out in May 1941 be rebuilt exactly as before.”
Zelenskyy Can Win (Part 1)
Under the leadership of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine might just win this–if the Biden Administration doesn’t undermine him.
National Will
Americans have always been at odds with each other unless a great need arises to unite. When necessity demands it, we come together and express our “Will” as the American People. We are at such a time as this – to decide, speak, and make our National Will the way forward for America.
Russia’s Space Agency Says It Is Suspending ISS Cooperation with NASA and The European Space Agency
In a series of tweets written in Russian on Saturday, Rogozin said: “I believe that the restoration of normal relations between partners in the International Space Station and other joint projects is possible only with the complete and unconditional lifting of illegal sanctions.”
The Constitution: Simplified For Kids
It is imperative that every American knows something of the Constitution. Everyone needs a personal copy of the Constitution and needs to read it often.
Democrats Ruining America
The geniuses who founded this great country must be spinning backflips and somersaults, in their graves, such that would make any Olympic gymnast red with envy and force any Olympic judge to score a perfect 10.
Threading the Needle to Balance Liberty, Commerce, Justice, and Power
Threading the Needle to Balance Liberty, Commerce, Justice, and Power Figure TR Threaded the Needle I first discovered the magic of a Mercury Dime in my grandparents’ kitchen playing with a toy slot machine. To my young eyes, they were the most beautiful coins I had ever seen. As I grew older, I understood the …
Is Putin Showing His Air Superiority Weakness?
As the Ukraine-Russia war drags on, military aviation experts are noticing that anti-aircraft missiles like the Stinger and Igla are not the only threats Russian pilots face in the skies over Ukraine.
Congress Could…
After the Executive excesses, think, “dictatorship,” of the Recent Unpleasantness of 1861-1865, the U.S. Congress re-asserted itself to its Constitutional status. It did so, because it could.
Reconstructing History, Part 10: Means, Motive, and Opportunity
The unions and MNCs have rallied behind these efforts to re-construct US history. While rank and file members most likely seek what they see as fairness to minorities in education, the leadership and the MNCs see power and control. They have the means, motive, and opportunity to drive the effort.
Re-constructing History, Part 9: Is the Education Institution a Cult?
Part 9 IS THE EDUCATION INSTITUTION A CULT? looks at cults and cult tendencies. While calling an entire institution a cult is a stretch, the education institution does exhibit certain cult-like traits.
But even if we do not call something a cult, examining it within a cult-framework may provide some insights into how to address it. This applies not to just the education institution, but to the Trump campaign. If the Trump campaign honestly looks at itself through the lense of the seven signs of a cult, it may learn something about itself and how to address Trump’s high negativity, especially among independent voters.
Margaret Singer, Ph.D. psychologist author of “Cults in Our Midst” stated:
Deprogramming–that is, providing members with information about the cult and showing them how their own decision-making power had been taken away from them.
Restoring critical thinking and effective decision-making needs to be the foundation of all reform and recovery efforts. It is the first cult sign listed in the table above and at the heart of the other six. It is the only viable way to ensure sustainable liberty and prosperity.
Re-constructing History, Part 8: First, Do no Harm
Part 8 looks at the charge in the Hippocratic Oath, “first, do no harm”.
1619 seeks to re-write American history to show slavery is at the root of every institution in the US. CRT aims to show this as well as with the concepts of institutional racism, white supremacy, white privilege, and white fragility. Part 4 of the Maskirovka series covers these issues. The question is whether the Social Justice Warriors (SJW) employ these concepts to excise a cancer or to kill the current social structures and institutions. If they argue racism is permanently rooted in every social structure and institution in America, then they argue for a wholesale restructuring of American society and new institutions that are not tainted with slavery and racism.
This path does harm on several dimensions. Harm that may be far worse than the disease. There are many sites that provide arguments against CRT and 1619, so I will focus on the harm they cause, regardless of any merit they may possess.
Reconstructing History, Part 7: Conflict, History, and the Future
Social Justice movements do not try to re-construct American history because they do not like it. They do it to break the historical path dependency and set a new future based on their ideology. The questions are:
Do they have the power to completely break the path?
Will other forces counter-act them?
Keep Dissenting
It may feel like anything you can do to stand up against the encroachment of our liberties is so little as to be worthless. Your pebble of resistance cannot hold back the flood. Perhaps not. Yet your pebble is absolutely crucial. Mattias Desmet, a PhD in clinical psychology and a masters in statistics, working at …
Our Rights Are Not Conditional
In response to questions about the vaccine mandate, Dr. Fauci, our intrepid pandemic guardian, says that we need to put our personal freedoms on hold for a bit – for the greater good. Um, no! That’s not how our freedoms work. From my reading of the Declaration of Independence, our freedoms are granted …
Reconstructing History, Part 6: Culture, History, and the Future
Reconstructing History, Part 6: Culture, History, and the Future Culture is a difficult topic. For some, any discussion of culture, especially looking at them objectively for the results they produce, is a third rail. I discussed this at length in Part 5—Does Culture Matter? of the Maskirovka series. Part 5 looks at cultural assessment. The …
And Quiet Flows The Don
Putin’s War against Ukraine made me wonder what’s become of the Don Cossacks. The Cossacks, like all of Russia and Ukraine suffered horribly from 1914 to 1991. They’ve had hard times since then. Now, they’re back in a time of war and tragedy.