MO Gov Parson gave a speech to MO education administrators recently, which has me feeling a tad ranty. In it, he spoke glowingly of his friend ‘Margie’, director of DESE (MO Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education), and encouraged MO’s poor public s…
Today is the 236th birthday of the United States Constitution. Peruse it or lose it… and the liberty it was written to preserve.
What was signed as completed upon this day, two hundred and thirty-six years ago, September 17th, 1787, by thirty-nine …
In previous posts in remembrance of September 11th, 2001, I’ve noted that who we are as Americans, has been becoming less recognizable than the date we’re remembering, and if anything, that lack of recognition has been growing between us, as that time …
Two points before getting to my annual reposting of Calvin Coolidge’s speech on the “Inspiration of our Declaration of Independence”, and to the Declaration itself- the first, which I went into a little bit of detail here, is that the Declaration of In…
Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, is a day set aside to remember and honor those who have died in the armed forces of the United States of America. If we are to honor and memorialize those who gave their lives, can we do so properly without being m…