230 years ago today, December 15th, 1791, our states united in ratifying the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America! How many of the individual rights protected by these amendments as being essential to living in…
Just a thought for those of us preoccupied by our various issues of economies and the consequences of elections, viruses and variants… remember that while those are real, and important – they don’t really amount to all that much, at least not in com…
Warning: a possible unpopular opinion here, that I’d like to run by parents and politicians: I have some concerns about this rush for a Parents Bill of Rights , and not about the motivations for why parents think it’s needed – few concerns are more obv…
Commemorating Veterans Day once again with two earlier memories; one from six years ago now, which was itself remembering this day from 5 years before that, and doing so recalls what persists across time on this day, our fellows who choose ‘the harder …
I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for an action such as this. Homeschooling is always good to see. Micro-Schools and Learning Pods have been encouraging. Parents fighting back against school boards and starting their own private schools, has …
If you live in Missouri, and you’re interested in learning what school boards can and should do, and perhaps becoming a candidate yourself, these people (Dr. Mary Byrne is one of the speakers) know what you should know. Join United for Principled Pol…
What is the purpose of Sunshine Requests? To let in a sanitizing sunlight on govt activities that seem shadowy to citizens who have concerns that they are possibly involved in improper or illegal behavior, right? Do you suppose that the legislation was…
It’s that time again, to speak truth to the power of the woke folk, who fail to give any thought to the noise in their virtue signaling, as they continue to prattle on about wanting to change ‘Columbus Day’ to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’, it’s time to re-…
This is a small portion of an interview with a philosophy professor specializing in Aristotle, Carrie-Ann Biondi, on why she recently left Academia, and it is well worth reading. She goes into the problems that students have with being ready for colle…
Infrastructure… indeed. Have you wondered about the bizarre contents of the ‘Free!’ multi-trillion dollar Infrastructure Bill moving through congress, and wondered how the hell studying racial & gender inequities, and green lunches, fit into an i…