Are the Teachers’ Unions Writing Purportedly Straight News Pieces for The Washington Post?

The Washington Post got the headline wrong. The editors make it sound as though the students were the ones in the wrong for reporting a teacher who broke the law! Her students reported her for a lesson on race. Can she trust them again? Mary Wood’s school reprimanded her for teaching a book by Ta-Nehisi …

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President Newsome

By John R. “Buck” Surdu I have frequently said that the Republicans are slightly less heinous than the Democrats. Since retaking the House, the Repugnant Republicans have done little to bring the country back from the brink of civil war and fascist-dominated DC. Sure, the YouTube videos of Ted Cruz, John Kennedy, and some of …

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Why We Have Elections

Elections

I believe that it is worthwhile to consider why we have elections.     The first reason is the obvious one, we use elections to choose representatives.  That is how a representative government works.  That concept was reinforced by the Christian concept that God made all men and that there is, therefore, no longer Roman or Jew, freeman …

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One Front: Two Wars

I wrote this piece the week after 9-11 in 2001. I’ve written over 1k pieces since then. This may be the best. Certainly prescient, even if DoD didn’t go for WW-T and went with GWOT (Global War on Terrorism). The first front of the World War against International Terrorism (WW-T), our American Homeland, is remarkably …

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