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“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…
“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. …
“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,…
“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…
“Crazy people don’t sit around wondering if they’re nuts.” – Jake Gyllenhaal don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re not nuts! The post-Covid circumstances in which we find ourselves are not normal, and you are under no obligation to accept a new normal. You are a sovereign human being, not a cog in…
“You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry ain’t coming.” – Chris Gardner y now you’ve probably all heard of the Q-anon conspiracy movement. If not, it’s this idea that in government there exist black hats and white hats, and that this good vs. evil tale as old as time is playing out before our…
“This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their…
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – Chauncey Depew Last November I launched WithdrawConsent.org as the first step in an intentional journey toward self-ownership and self-discovery. I don’t see a point where this site ever goes into auto-pilot, but I hope that…
“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.”- Edward Coke istorically, capitalism has been denounced by opponents as heartless and greedy. In contemplating this characterization, I find that critics are not necessarily wrong. The profit motive of capitalism is born in maximizing returns, and the system itself is not concerned…
“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine” ― Fernando Pessoa n a prior post titled The Faustian Bargain, I warned about the dangers of…
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”― Edward Snowden ife is a series of buying and selling. Some things you inherit from birth, like abilities, time, material possessions, or rights. …
hallenging fraud is as American as Apple Pie… or at least it should be. I recently put up this post in a hurry in order to not lose the spreadsheet created, but here is the gist of the post: Following the Capitol incursion on 01/06/2021, the press, the political class and their allies in big…
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…
ne of the greatest mental hurdles that I find in withdrawing consent is doing so in isolation. A clip from the motion picture ‘The Matrix’ comes to mind, where the protagonist, Neo, is offered a Red Pill and a Blue Pill by Morpheus, the mentor and oracle. Should he choose the Red Pill, his eyes…
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” – Pericles ictured above is a version of ‘The Peaceable Kingdom’ by Edward Hicks. One of 62 versions of paintings by the same title and artist. Hicks was an early 19th Century American Painter and Quaker…