There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Government 101 – Lesson 3 – Outline – Worldviews and the Founding of America – part 1
School closures have set off a devastating domino effect Written by: Bethany Mandel – August 24, 2022 – for Spectator World Millions of American children are about to enter their fourth year of Covid-impacted schooling. In vast swaths of the United States, a child now entering second grade has never had anything resembling a normal school experience. No child entering kindergarten has a memory of life before the pandemic. A rising junior in high school has never had a normal high school experience. Over two years into the pandemic, we know that the effects of “long Covid” are basically nonexistent … Continue reading The lost boys of Covid
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Government 101 – Lesson 1 – Lecture – Philosophy and the Founding of America – part 1
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Government 101 – Lesson 2 – Lecture – Philosophy and the Founding of America – part 2
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Government 101 – Lesson 5 – Lecture – Theism vs Naturalism – The modern world runs on faith
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Government 101 – Lesson 2 – Synopsis – Worldviews in Conflict – pgs 34-53
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Government 101 – Lesson 3 – Lecture – Worldviews and the Founding of America – part 1
By Larry Elder – Posted: Aug 25, 2022 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Be sure to read the comments below this column. My cmnt: Also click this link: Newsweek 1975: The Cooling Worldhttps://iseethics.files.wor…The closing paragraph is a hoot. My cmnt: Even Data’s Dad, Dr. Noonien Soong, derisively called Often Wrong, got some things right. Not so with climate change (i.e., man-made global warming alarmists) religious nuts. The earth worshiping climate fanatics are actually ALWAYS wrong. Their track record is zero. My cmnt: Click here to see 50 years of failed predictions. “‘The trouble with almost all environmental problems,’ says Paul … Continue reading Climate Change Forecasts: Like Data’s Dad are Often Wrong
David Horowitz was right about the Left. by Mark Bauerlein – Summer 2018 – Claremont Review of Books In 1987, not long after David Horowitz had completed his transition from ’60s radical to ’80s conservative, he received a letter from an ex-comrade. They’d just had a political argument over the phone, and she wanted to close the conversation with a summary of his renunciation of the hard Left. They had both been Red Diaper babies, classmates at the Sunnyside Progressive School, and children of members of a Communist enclave in Queens. Now, her companion of the barricades had decided to back … Continue reading Radical Prophet
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Government 101 – Lesson 1 – Outline – Philosophy and the Founding of America – part 1
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Government 101 – Lesson 2 – Outline – Philosophy and the Founding of America – part 2
Posted by Lord Buckbeak – Aug 20, 2022 – conservapedia.com “I myself believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.” – William F. Buckley, God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom” “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, … Continue reading Conservapedia – check it out for a counter to the lies of the Liberal-Left
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: How Apologetics Impacts Conversion: A Historical Case Study Parts 1-4
BY DANIEL AVERY ON 8/6/19 AT 10:27 AM EDT – for NewsWeek.com My cmnt: I must note that in times of great national distress our leaders have always, since the founding of the country and before, called upon Almighty God (or Providence) to protect us and “look with favor upon our undertakings.” In July, a new law took effect requiring South Dakota public schools to prominently display the phrase “In God We Trust” on school grounds starting in the 2019-2020 academic year. “A prominent location is a school entryway, cafeteria, or other common area where students are most likely to see the … Continue reading Where Does ‘In God We Trust’ Come From? National Motto Appearing in Public Schools Across America
Thanksgiving Proclamation [New York, 3 October 1789] By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity … Continue reading Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations and FDR’s D-Day Prayer
By Victor Davis Hanson – Aug 18, 2022 9:12 AM – for Townhall.com As President Joe Biden’s polls stagnate and the midterms approach, we are now serially treated to yet another progressive melodrama about the dangers of a supposed impending radical right-wing violent takeover. This time the alleged threat is a Neanderthal desire for a “civil war.” The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the dubious rationale for such a historic swoop, and the popular pushback at the FBI and Department of Justice from roughly half the country have further fueled these giddy “civil war” conjectures. Recently … Continue reading ‘Civil War’ Porn
By PAUL BOIS – 16 Aug 2022 – for Breitbart.news A new political ad from the conservative non-profit group Citizens for Sanity illustrated the insanity of men competing in women’s sports under the guise of transgenderism. The ad features several girl athletes prepping for a big race at a track meet as a narrator expounds upon the intense training regimes they all follow to reach peak performance. “She trains at 6 a.m. every morning,” the narrator says as the young women assemble on the starting line. “She spent years working to shave off seconds. She’s the captain of her school’s team.” … Continue reading Conservative Ad Highlights Insanity of ‘Men in Girl’s Sports’
Originalism is the most meaningful approach to constitutional interpretation. by Jeremy Rabkin – Summer 2018 – for Claremont Review of Books Ilan Wurman’s valuable new book, A Debt Against the Living, lives up to its subtitle: it offers an “introduction.” Wurman wants to persuade readers that “originalism”—the effort to read the Constitution in accord with its original meaning—is a serious project. And he wants to show that it is, in fact, a much more reasonable approach than alternatives that leave judges free to improvise new meanings based on contemporary fads or priorities, thus defeating the point of a written constitution. At the … Continue reading Big Tent Originalism
An interpretive history of the Constitution through ten lives. by Ilya Shapiro – Summer 2018 – for Claremont Review of Books How would you write an interpretive history of the U.S. Constitution? Not a story of the framing and how the founders’ political theories have survived (or not) the test of time, or a chronological exegesis of Supreme Court cases, or even a critique of American constitutionalism from a particular theoretical perspective. Those worthy projects have been done in many forms, but if you wanted to produce an accessible book that addressed the main ideas undergirding our constitutional order as they’ve … Continue reading A Living Constitution
Hard questions about discrimination, diversity, and civil rights. by William Voegeli – Summer 2018 – for Claremont Review of Books New York City’s vast public school system enrolls 1.1 million students, some 18,000 of whom attend nine “specialized” high schools, where the curriculum is particularly rigorous and admission is both widely sought and highly competitive. Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech are the oldest, largest, and most famous such institutions. Eight of these schools base admission decisions solely on applicants’ scores on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT), developed by an education assessment company under contract to the New York … Continue reading Thomas Sowell’s Inconvenient Truths
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading Protected: Why Has the West Been So Successful?
Decriminalization involves trade-offs, but treating addiction as a disease yields a clear gain, research suggests. By Austin Frakt – Published Oct. 5, 2020 – for The New York Times Many people point to Portugal as an example for the United States to emulate in dealing with illicit drugs. But Portugal’s experience is often misunderstood. Although it in small amounts in 2001, including heroin and cocaine, that’s different from making them legal. And it did not decriminalize drug trafficking, which would typically involve larger quantities. Portugal’s law removed incarceration, but people caught possessing or using illicit drugs may be penalized by regional panels made … Continue reading Pointers From Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War
By Jay W. Richards – Nov 3, 2010 – discovery.org JAY W. RICHARDS NOVEMBER 3, 2010 INTELLIGENT DESIGN ORIGINAL ARTICLE Stephen Hawking declared that our understanding of physics proves God did not create the universe. Is he right? Stephen Hawking holds the chair of mathematics at Cambridge University once held by Sir Isaac Newton. So when he declared that our understanding of physics shows that God did not create the universe, it was bound to get attention. Summarizing the thesis of his new book, The Grand Design (co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow), Hawking announced: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can … Continue reading Did Physics Kill God?
By Larry O’Connor | Posted: Feb 17, 2022 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Yes, the democrats and Hillary are guilty of spying on President Trump and his campaign in 2016. See details below. It is now a full six months later and she and all of the democrat criminals (Comey, Brennan, Strzok, McCabe) are still walking around as free men. The democrat party and the deep state bureaucracy are guilty of running a ThirdWorld banana regime and are getting away with it. Earlier this week, I spoke with Byron York of The Washington Examiner regarding the latest revelations related to … Continue reading Seriously… Lock Her Up
By Josh Hammer |Posted: Aug 12, 2022 – for Townhall.com Monday’s shocking images of police sirens blaring outside Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s magnificent Palm Beach, Florida, estate, will not soon be forgotten. Much has already been said and written about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago that precipitated those sirens: “outrageous,” “unprecedented,” a “crossing of the Rubicon” moment. Regrettably, all of that is true. The siccing of the national law enforcement apparatus to execute a pre-dawn raid on a top partisan rival — especially when that rival is the head of state’s predecessor and perhaps-likely future opponent — is a … Continue reading American Stasi
By Matt Vespa | @mvespa1 | Posted: Aug 11, 2022 11:45 AM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: There is no doubt that B.O. took all kinds of classified documents when he left the White House. He would have to. His was the most corrupt and nontransparent regime ever. His top secret and classified emails exchanged with Hillary on her illegal and unsecured private server would have landed President Trump in prison WHILE still in office. The demos accuse Republicans, and especially Trump, of everything they ACTUALLY do. My cmnt: Democrat criminality is either completely ignored or given a slap on … Continue reading Barack Obama Has Missing Records. When Will the FBI Ransack His House?
by Rick MooreAmerican Songwriter – from Joni Mitchell’s websiteMarch 4, 2020 My cmnt: I was playing this piece by Mingus on my digital sax – really nice, smooth jazz, fun to play – and wanted to know more about it so, finding this interesting, I’ve decided to post it. What an assignment this must have been. For singer Joni Mitchell to honor the request of one of the great giants of jazz – Charles Mingus – and put lyrics to some of his classic pieces before he died of Lou Gehrig’s disease would have been beyond the scope of most writers. … Continue reading Behind the Song: Joni Mitchell, “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”
Stimulating the vagus nerve can relieve arthritis, Crohn’s disease and other inflammatory conditions—perhaps someday even Alzheimer’s disease. By Allysia Finley July 22, 2022 3:51 pm ET – for Wall Street Journal Kelly Owens was a medical mystery, her teens and 20s blighted by a cascade of seemingly unrelated health problems that left her debilitated. For a decade and a half she was put on one medication after another—22 in all—to little effect. Then electricity saved her. “I didn’t even remember how ‘healthy’ felt, since it had been 15 years,” Ms. Owens, 33, says. Now she and her husband are talking about having … Continue reading Electricity Is the New Medical Miracle
By Sarah Arnold | Posted: Aug 06, 2022 12:25 PM – for Townhall.com In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine Doctor Joseph Lapado and Yale School of Public Health Doctor Harvey Risch are sounding the alarm that there may be serious underestimated risks involved with the side effects of the Wuhan Coronavirus vaccine. This comes as an independent pollster found that a significant number of Americans regret receiving the vaccine in the first place. 10 percent of those vaccinated said they wish they hadn’t done so, while 15 percent of adults said they have been diagnosed … Continue reading Poll: A Significant number of Americans Regret Taking Covid Vaccine
There are concerning trends on blood clots and low platelets, not that the authorities will tell you. By Joseph A. Ladapo and Harvey A. Risch – June 22, 2021 1:09 pm – Wall Street Journal One remarkable aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic has been how often unpopular scientific ideas, from the lab-leak theory to the efficacy of masks, were initially dismissed, even ridiculed, only to resurface later in mainstream thinking. Differences of opinion have sometimes been rooted in disagreement over the underlying science. But the more common motivation has been political. Another reversal in thinking may be imminent. Some scientists have raised concerns that the … Continue reading Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised?
By Spencer Brown – Posted: Aug 05, 2022 1:00 – Townhall.com On Friday, President Biden’s personal doctor reported that for another day, the commander in chief tested positive for COVID — a full seven days since he tested positive with a “rebound” case of the virus Biden promised to “shut down” when he was campaigning in 2020. Here’s what the latest letter from Dr. Kevin O’Connor to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had to say: The President continues to feel very well. His cough has almost completely resolved. His temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation remain entirely … Continue reading Biden Still Testing Positive While His Doc Hides…What Gives?
Matthew Dickerson / July 28, 2022 – for the Daily Signal My cmnt: Biden’s first – unnecessary – massive (vote buying) spending bill of nearly $2 trillion dollars in 2021 lit the fuse that blew-up inflation. Of course his – unnecessary – curtailing of oil leases, killing the Keystone pipeline and making it impossible to build new oil refineries – all while blaming Russia (what is it with these democrats NOW blaming Russia for everything while just a few years ago and forever they have loved the Soviets) for the high gas prices at the pump. After more than a year of … Continue reading So-Called Inflation Reduction Act Will Make Stagflation Worse
By Bailey Aldridge – February 01, 2021 2:24 PM – for McClatchy News My cmnt: I post this because it shows the blindness of young Libs to the dangers of promoting “equity” over “equality”. It always ends badly for everyone except the favored few. The whole cry of communism since its inception has been the lie that they will MAKE everyone equal. What they have actually shown over 100 years of recent history is that the elites, like elite democratic leadership in America, live in the Hamptons while the masses live in the ghettos. The only equity they achieve is … Continue reading Biden pushes for ‘equity’ over ‘equality.’ Here’s the difference — and why it matters
By George F. Will – Columnist The Washington Post | July 8, 2022 at 4:25 p.m. EDT Time was, conscientious parents fretted about “summer learning loss.” Now, when much of what schools do subtracts from understanding, summer could at least be a time for recuperation from educational malpractice — were summer not just another season of screen addictions for young people deformed by this digital age. In 2008, Americans were being inundated by journalism performing anticipatory sociology. “Techno-cheerleaders” — Mark Bauerlein’s term — predicted that millennials (born 1981-1996), the first generation suckled by their digital devices, would dazzle the world … Continue reading How millennials became aggressively illiberal, censorious young adults
Prices up broadly across the economy, with gasoline far outpacing other categories By Gabriel T. Rubin – Updated July 13, 2022 7:07 pm ET – The Wall Street Journal My cmnt: This simply is what happens when you put a Leftist, nincompoop**, senile, demented democrat in charge of your country. My wife and I vividly remember living through the Carter years. Then the Obama years. Rich, white, guilty, college-indoctrinated democrats vote this type of religious nut (i.e., believes superstitiously in man-made global warming, Darwinism and abortion) into office because their incomes protect them and they can feel good about themselves. The … Continue reading U.S. Inflation Hits New Four-Decade High of 9.1%
The most important religious divide isn’t between right and left, but between left and left By David French – Jul 17, 2022 – the French Press My cmnt: Only an arrogant, indoctrinated marxist like B.O. could come up with a phrase like “coalition of the ascendant.” People have wondered whether Obama and his racist mentor-pastor Wright were really Christians. It’s not a matter of whether or not he CLAIMS to be a Christian, we see by his constant disdain for Christians worldwide and his endless empathy for murderous Muslims worldwide where his heart lies. But even that is not the … Continue reading The God Gap Helps Explain a ‘Seismic Shift’ in American Politics
Lord Buckbeak: "Will you come into my parlor?," said the Spider to the Fly. 