“Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.” – Noam Chomsky magine…
“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” – Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth he world has been living with COVID-19 for more than eighteen months now. I think they call this the new…
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ― J.K. Rowling spend a disproportionate amount of time critiquing Republicans, and for good reason. What good does it do to call out the left side of the spectrum when they’re not my…
“The future is shaped by the people that we send into it. And we must never forget that the child tugging on our pant-legs is one of those people.”― Craig D. Lounsbrough he year is 2005 and the drive to upward mobility and abundant access to education has created a dwindling birthrate. As college-educated Americans postpone…
“Bad divorce?” Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. “No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil ith the news that Manhattan DA, Cyrus Vance and the Left weren’t content with stealing national elections…
“With friends like these, who needs enemies?” – Joey Adams ome time ago I was listening to a radio program on the American Revolution and the topic of guerilla warfare came up. On a neutral battlefield, there were few contemporary armies that could go toe-to-toe with the British Army; certainly not the American Continental Army…
“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.” – Colin Powell hat motivates a child to succeed? That is the central question that should be asked on matters of education. Since at least the inception of the Department of Education in 1980, the emphasis on education is always placed on…
“I believe that nothing should be taboo – no theory or prejudice should close one’s mind to a discovery.” – Henry Moore y now you all know somewhat of my brand of writing: the paleoconservative take on life lessons, etc. It can get boring, but hopefully, you have found some nugget of what I contribute…
n June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth has been observed in Texas where it originates for more than 150 years. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves held…
In a world where boys are falling behind their female counterparts in nearly every category, from academics to employment, it’s important that we not demonize half of the population in the promotion of the other half.
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” ~ Friedrich August von Hayek he world is currently facing an extinction-level event and there is only one known remedy: you must eat bugs. This is the message disseminating from the powers that…
“It’s easy to fall into victim mode and feel like the world is against you. The truth is, people aren’t against you: they’re just for themselves. The only thing within your control is how you react and respond to the chaotic dance of life.” – Kerli f late, my children have come home from school…
“Voters liked Ike—but not the GOP.” – David W. Reinhard The GOP must die. The Grand Old Party is over and unsalvageable. The name finds its origin in the post-Civil War era as the party that saved the Union, but whatever positive connotations may have come with the GOP moniker are dead and gone now. …
“Ground Control to Major Tom. Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom?” – David Bowie hile Idaho has been dealing with the apocalypse here in the real world, Mike Simpson proposes a plan to kill hydro-power that makes electricity in the Pacific Northwest affordable with the stated goal of saving…
“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers..” ― Jean Piaget enaissance education is the foundation of the modern university system. It was based on…
“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.” – Abba Eban verybody is doing it? Perhaps you’ve heard this statement before? Like a genetically ingrained trait such as eye color, every child knows that doing something in the name of the herd is justifiable. If you are scientifically inclined,…
ollowing the 2020 US Presidential election, many dissatisfied voters were left jaded by the failure of our political and judicial systems to address what they believed to be valid concerns in how some states administered their elections. I consider myself one of those people. This widespread concern is demonstrated in the litany of ongoing legal…
“No reproach is more common, no argument better suited to the temper of these times, than those which are founded on the supposed inferiority or incapacity of the Church in political matters.”- John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton onfluence happens where bodies of water meet and combine. Sometimes confluence happens at the mouth of a river where…
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” – C.S. Lewis hat price would you pay for comfort? Would you turn over your savings to…
“People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.” – Charles Dudley Warner great piece of advice in political discourse is to watch out for subversive language or hyperbole. Whether it’s slandering their opponents, naming a piece of legislation, or characterizing initiatives; if the argument is dressed up in hyperbole you can know that the…