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…
I prefer the Latin Mass of 1962 (and a thousand years before) for at least 12 reasons listed here. My last reason for loving the Latin Mass (which I failed to list in that blog post) seems important: how American Catholicism has changed since the incep…
Donald Trump’s triumph in the 2016 election drove Chelsea Handler into a depraved descent. Weed and depression. Psychiatrists. Broken.
Not because of anything that happened to her. She didn’t lose her home. No one close to her died because …
I want to take over the world and leave everybody alone
–Libertarian Motto
Rex Sinquefield graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School and he’s supposedly something of a libertarian. That’s about all we have in common.
Rex left St. Loui…