Secession is Occurring: Part 4: Censorship and Political Indoctrination

By John R. “Buck” Surdu In Part 1 of this multi-part article, I asserted that we are becoming two distinctly different Dis-United States. One is an America based on our Constitution, institutions, law and order, freedoms, common view of civics, commonly interpreted history, and shared culture. The other is an America transformed into a Leftist, …

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Critical Thinking: Credence and Veracity

Critical Thinking: Credence and Veracity   Critical Thinking and Policy Development and Analysis introduced the concepts of credence and veracity and said they were two sides of the same coin. The coin’s value depends on its credence and veracity. The figure above aligns credence with the messenger and veracity with the message. It also adds …

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Elected Positions of State and County Levels of Government Violations of Oath and Negligence of Duty

Justice

Remove elected officials from their position when they are not doing their job! Why are Governors, Mayors, and District Attorneys above the law when it comes to criminal negligence, fostering criminal activity and violations of their oath of office? Why are they not removed from office? It is apparent we cannot wait for new elections …

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No Longer Conspiracy

When John F. Kennedy became president, his first news conference, like so many, were filled with humor.  A reporter asked the new president if there were any surprises, anything he didn’t anticipate as the new president.  Kennedy thought for a moment and said something like, “Well, our biggest surprise was finding everything was as bad …

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World War III; Does It Matter?

I’ve been reading and viewing so much propaganda and speculation about the possibility of us already being in World War III, and about that Nordstream pipeline damage, and about Victoria Nuland and Bin’s(the Fetterman pronunciation) statements well in advance of that event, that I don’t believe it really matters, at this point. The left has …

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A China Friend in the White House, Joe Biden, Cancelled Trump’s Program to Prevent Chinese Spying

China

Fox News recently reported that five months after a federal jury convicted him, a judge has thrown out three of the four convictions against a University of Kansas researcher, Feng Tao, who carried out work for Fuzhou University in China while he was employed at the University of Kansas and received research funding from the U.S. Department …

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Treat Regulations Like an Assault Helicopter Company Would

Hmong Memorial stands at front of Fresno, California courthouse.

I bet you didn’t know that 165 fiercely anti-communist Montagnards were rescued from work-labor slavery, torture, and apparently worse at the hands of combined Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, by

Critical Thinking and Policy Development and Analysis

Critical Thinking and Policy Development and Analysis This blog builds upon Part 4: Policy Development. It is the opening part of a series on critical thinking and policy development and analysis. It provides the framework, as shown in the opening figure, for policy development and analysis. Following parts will use this framework to assess some …

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The Army of the Woke

Austin Milley

The Army of the Woke; Why the Army Didn’t Meet Its Recruiting Goals The Army fell approximately 15,000 (25%) people short of meeting their recruiting goals this year, and some Pentagon officials focused on the tight job market as the culprit.[1] Though access to civilian jobs and higher pay is a factor, the truth is broader …

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