Ok, so… as my Monday rant on the furor over Trump’s Tweets has faded from my blood pressure, some questions have surfaced about it – sorry, but rants being what they are, it may well not have been too clear on who or what my rant was directed at in t…
The abortion company fires its CEOs as sloppily as it delivers “healthcare.”
Before that, the Trump Administration successfully cut some of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, which may have precipitated the decapitation of its mana…
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman today asked a rhetorical question: Trump’s Going to Get Re-elected, Isn’t He?
The headline reflects the question he hears from his Democrat friends. They seem resigned to defeat. And the answer is: Y…
rant: Look, you might as well go read the very sensible comments upon Trump’s Tweets, which Charles C. W. Cooke had to say (H/T Dana), or go to Lindsay Graham to hear what will please the Right half of you, or go to CNN to hear what wil…
In years of observing the behavior of staff at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Institute I haven’t noticed much of the “open-mindedness [and] humility” claimed on its website.[1] More […]
It is often said that scientific writing is dull and boring to read. Writers choose words carefully; mean for them to be interpreted precisely and, so, employ vocabulary that may […]
Once again, before getting to my annual reposting of Calvin Coolidge’s speech on the Inspiration of our Declaration of Independence, I want to point out, first, that our independence wasn’t begun on July 4th 1776, that was simply the end of the beginni…
I’m re-posting the post below from a few years ago, in part because in the time since the ‘Transgender Bathrooms’ issue first grabbed ahold of a news-cycle, the weeds which have sprouted from its source have spread and infested the daily news to the po…
The online journal Aeon posted (6 October, 2016) “The Examined Life,” by John Taylor, director of Learning, Teaching and Innovation at Cranleigh boarding school in Surrey (U.K.). https://aeon.co/essays/can-school-today-teach-anything-more-t…
American war dead, Flanders Field, BelgiumFrom eight years ago…Memorial Day… it is enough to remember today those who have fallen in defence of our nation. But it’s not all we can do, for them or for us, and to leave it there, I think, deprives the…
The Kansas City Star has done a good job of smearing Missouri activist Ron Calzone over his opposition to a proposed bill ‘that would add protections for LGBTQ Missourians’. But whatever you might think of Ron or his reasoning on this, what you really …
Last year, in response to one of their blog posts, I submitted a comment ( https://www.showmeinstitute.org/blog/accountability/if-we%E2%80%99re-going-administer-standardized-tests-let%E2%80%99s-make-them-useful ) to the think tank/advocacy group, …
I write this on Easter Sunday, 2019, and the secular world, particularly the anti-Christian secular world, is losing its mind again.
This time, the left’s insanity arises from the final report of the special investigator, Robert Mueller, into all…
I shared a post last week that I found hopeful, concerning a small but successful program at a sizable Ivy League University that’s pursuing ‘Wisdom First, Job Skills Second’ (which is both surprising and new for today), through studying key works in t…