State Supported Child Kidnapping
Star Chambers Coming for Your Children. Washington & Minnesota, have already legalized the kidnapping and mutilation of children without parental consent
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Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXXV; Whatever happened to John Cougar?
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXXV; Whatever happened to John Cougar? Albert Constantine Jr. blasts Joe Biden with “Cherry Bomb.”
Transurrection Part II
Part one of Montana’s Transurrection is the only accurate eyewitness account of what happened in the Montana legislature when radical leftists showed their willingness to act violently and disrupt the business of all Montanans on April 24th. In part one, I described what I witnessed outside the Capitol building and then in the House gallery. …
Tales of the Trail Boss; A Military Leadership Series
Tales of the Trail Boss is a 4-part series about that initial push into Iraq and the young folks of our armed forces who displayed great courage, leadership, ingenuity and a bit of humor along the way. It happened something like this…
The Tragedy of the Commons: The Rational Actor
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 …
Minarchy and the Right to Choose
Government goons , almost always look at “right to choose” to mean “You have the right to choose as long as we approve of your choices.”
A Male Lesbian’s Take–An Ongoing Domestic Cognitive War
The America I knew as a young man, was a country in which you could grow up to be anything you wished. My how that is now truer today, than ever before, but not in a good way. Today, no matter who you are, you can grow up to be literally “anything” you wish, given …
Montana’s Transurrection An Eyewitness Account
Whenever a veteran recounts a war story from their military days they often start with the phrase, “So there I was.” Though I am retired from the military and back home in Montana there are still times when I feel the need to start a story off right. So, there I was, sitting in the …
We Are All Crash Test Dummies Now
We’re all on the bus together and will collectively experience the impact when our radical demented fool in chief drives the country over the approaching cliff.
Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons I first came across the problem (tragedy) of the commons in a political science course in grad school. We read a remarkable work by Elinor Ostrom about the problem. Her work both resonated with me and left me looking for more. I thought the problem was bigger …
It’s For The Kids!
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 …
Culture Commands Series: Our Great U.S. Culture War, Pt 2b
This Part B of the second installment of a series on Our Great U.S. Culture War. American Biblical Worldview When the thirteen colonies became thirteen united states, that America was 98.2% Protestant. The Protestant denominations had their differences, but they shared a focus, allegiance, and affinity to the Holy Bible. Furthermore, “dissenting” Protestantism is a …
Trifle With Nature at Your Peril, be it Human or Otherwise. Is Society Becoming Zanier and More Insane by the Day? Part 1
Learning Life’s Lessons the Hard Way in 21st Century America
Library Sophistry
Children are born with an amazing capacity for learning. Through observation, exploration and mimicry infants are able to decode human behavior. By age two, most have begun to understand that certain noises relate to certain concepts and that by uttering those sounds in a specific sequence they can begin to control their environment. Mastering the …
Culture Commands Series Our Great U.S. Culture War Pt 2a
This is Part A of the second installment of a series on Our Great U.S. Culture War. From Cape Henry to President George Washington It is 182 years from Englishmen planting the Christian Cross on Cape Henry, Virginia to claim a covenant evangelizing this new world, this Virginia, to the first inauguration of President George …
Biden Will Be Running on His Record This Time
The Biden 2024 candidate has a disadvantage that the Biden 2020 candidate didn’t have – a record of executive leadership.
Is Ethical Journalism An Oxymoron?
Last week, in case you missed it, was “Ethics in Journalism Week,” sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. As a journalist and a member of the SPJ myself, I naturally visited the SPJ’s website to see how it was commemorating this occasion. As expected, the site was bursting with platitudes about journalism and journalists. …
America’s Orwellian Days
These are Orwellian days in America, much like what George Orwell experienced as a volunteer fighting for the partizans in the Spanish Civil War.
Is America Out of Control?
Look around, America and much of the world is in chaossince the infamous election of 2020 took strong American leadership out of the world arena
All the News, Just Not Fit to Print
We just have the most interesting headlines in the news these days. Seems that semi-dead man is running again for president in his own secluded-in-the-basement way. The cackling person will no doubt be the vice-president candidate on the demoncrat ticket. I mean, who else could measure up to the fantastic work she has done on …