Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Fox News reports that the Western Heights School District in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has installed a drag queen as principal of the John Glenn Elementary School. Fox has confirmed that the new hire, Shane Murnan, is “a drag queen who goes by the name of Shantel Mandalay.” Although Mandalay’s Facebook account has since been deleted, …
The impact of the unconstitutionally constituted and funded, US Department of Education has a detrimental effect on our children and our wallets.
In a shocking display of ignorance masquerading as concern for safety, the administration seems to believe that removing educational programs from government schools will somehow make us all safer.
Ah, the modern high school graduate – armed with diplomas and dreams, but clueless about the most basic distinctions in the world of engines.
Children have the right to feel safe, respected, and protected while at school. I couldn’t agree more. But they are OUR children, not government’s!
There are times I think that I’ve written on the subject of ‘transgenderism’ too frequently, but it keeps coming up in the news. I wouldn’t care if Jack wanted to call himself Jill, if the ‘transgendered’ weren’t trying to use the power of the state to force other people to go along with their delusions. …
During the 13 years that I was a professor, department head, and finally a college dean at the University of Illinois, I was always puzzled by the “unwritten rule” that guided admissions to the university in general and to my college in particular. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has finally ruled 6-3 that race-based …
Education was once a very noble profession, in fact the best. So where did we get off base?
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 …
I anticipate that many readers of this article would agree that the quality of education in America has been in a steady state of decline for decades. The causes of this downslope categorically range between political, cultural, anthropological and economic, and the case could be made that none of these are mutually exclusive. In blazing …
The Doctor is in, But He/She/It/ZE Thinks Your Child is Malleable and Experiment Material
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 am certainly no classical scholar, I leave that to men like Victor Davis Hansen whom I greatly admire. But I have read some of the ancients. And truth be known, they were prescient in their thoughts. And eternal in their wisdom. We simply haven’t, and don’t, pay attention. So the following offers a few …
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 …
Learning Life’s Lessons the Hard Way in 21st Century America
Defending The Republic, Part 1: Scenarios Over the last year, I’ve been thinking, researching, and writing (Corporatism Part 1, Part 2; Thoughts on Ukraine, Part 7: The Joint Corporatist Scenario, among others) a lot about corporatism. I’ve been searching for a reason why corporations are doing what they are doing with social justice agendas. Why …
I believed I could handle making the switch back to the Democratic party, despite my lingering questions about their position on abortion.
Universities are supposed to be places where you are exposed to a broad array of ideas, philosophies, and opinions. Sadly in America, they aren’t.
And she wants to do everything she can to improve public safety except the most obvious: actually enforce the law! As Robert Stacy McCain noted in “Chicago Votes for More Crime,” when the Windy City Democrats nominated police-hating Brandon Johnson to become their next Mayor, the bad things that happened under Mayor Lori Lightfoot would …
If we expect our kids to reflect our values of hard work and personal integrity, we are going to have to take a closer look at public education.