Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
I called my congress critter, Julia Letlow’s, office today to find out if she was supporting McCarthy and his bid to pass another CR without making any needed changes, or if she was supporting Matt Gaetz and the congressmen fighting for fiscal sanity. Know what the receptionist said? She hadn’t had a chance to talk …
Critical Theory is an ideology and concept that has garnered significant traction in recent years and now demands our attention.
As Kids Return to School, Chatter About COVID-19 School Shutdowns Should Worry Parents. Guest Editorial By Matt Dean
The First Amendment is the cornerstone of our liberty; it is liberty’s guardian; it is the keeper of our individual freedoms.
What used to be the Democrat party, has been, will be, and currently remains the part of slavery, socialism, and subjugation.
The Houston Chronicle and its beyond bias in reporting, is a classic example of why newspapers are dying in this country.
The scorn heaped on Americans of Asian descent by black Americans since the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, declaring what we all knew, that the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment prohibited Affirmative Action using racial preferences. Promise Li wrote, in The Nation: (W)e …
The Nation is a biweekly ‘progressive’ political journal, whose positions have usually been on the far left end of the American political spectrum. The magazine used a fairly simple drawing to illustrate an article this morning, but I thought a drawing of Pickett’s Charge, from the Battle of Gettyburg, would be more appropriate, because they’re …
I usually start my mornings perusing the news of the day. Yesterday, in under 15 minutes, I came across three stories of anti-woke rebellion. Was it just a coincidence, or is the rebellion beginning?
The American Revolution was slowly being brewed by the resentments our colonial forebears felt for the really not that oppressive rule by King George III across the wide Atlantic Ocean, and Parliament’s desire that the colonists pay for the costs of their own defense in the French and Indian War. It was our freedom of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
My Mom’s ancestors were all 100 percent German. Dad used to joke about her, “You can always tell a German, but you can’t tell them much.” It fit her to a tee.
In late April, Elon Musk went on Real Time With Bill Maher and discussed the “woke mind virus” that’s infecting nearly everything nowadays.
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 …
I have frequently called out The Philadelphia Inquirer for poor reporting, so it is only fair when I note when they do good journalism. The quiet handling of rape allegations at two Philly health institutions How Jefferson and Rothman dealt with an alleged sexual assault involving an orthopedic surgeon and a medical resident. by Wendy …
Star Chambers Coming for Your Children. Washington & Minnesota, have already legalized the kidnapping and mutilation of children without parental consent
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 …
Imagine a typical North Idaho family, Shawn and Jane Doe and their three children Mary, Mike and Becky. Shawn is the assistant manager at a local division of a national company. The Doe family is a comfortable, middle class family and happy, but money seems tight. Jane has been pestering Shawn to ask for a …