2+ week, 5+ day ago (412+ words) Veterans Day, which was originally founded in'recognition of the cessation of hostilities in World War I rather than the commemoration of any individual, should be a holiday beyond reproach.' Veterans Day had its origin in 1918 at the end of World War I, a conflict that was at that time so horrendous that it was dubbed "the Great War" or "the war to end all wars," with the United States playing the decisive role in the Allied Powers" final victory.' It was first known as Armistice Day, celebrated on Nov. 11 because that was the day agreed upon by the Allied nations and Germany to begin a total cessation of hostilities. It went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, after some 20 million people from both sides had given their lives in the war effort.' Veterans Day…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago (514+ words) Much to our national detriment, schools have become Marxist indoctrination centers where students are taught that America is a racist country through critical race theory and in that process, are taught to hate not only their country but themselves in the bargain, especially the white students. In his book The Democrat Party Hates America, Mark Levin writes: Like America's colleges and universities, the public school classroom has also become a propaganda mill for anti-American Marxist lies about racism, America's history and founding, and the principles on which this nation was founded. And the Democrat Party is all in. When we were students, learning to hate the country was unconscionable. As teachers, we taught that we live in an imperfect but noble country, ever capable of excellence; but today, too many teachers do not present this patriotic vision. Moreover, students are…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago (683+ words) America was a target of Marxists long before our grandparents were toddlers. Was this just the ranting of a political rebel " New York City was a magnet for communists after the first and second world wars " or was it an aural "writing on the wall" predicting the future of America? The rest of the 20th century would tell us. The scheme of Marxists to subvert America to a communist state cropped up in the 1940s in the public schools, one of which I attended, with the introduction of what was called "Progressive Education." It has been many decades now that I and observant Americans have watched partial truths and outright lies distorting public information in support of leftist aims, delivered by apparently intelligent people in media, in education, in government, and in church. This has blurred the public's perception of their own…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (598+ words) There is no such thing as "government." It is not a thing that thinks and acts on its own. Yet the Left, and far too many on the Right, speak and act as though "government" is out there doing this or doing that -- often with almost godlike powers. "Don't worry Joe, government will take care of that!" Government -- at whatever level -- is just a large, powerful organization. That's it. "It" doesn't do anything because "it" doesn't exist. It has no agency, but instead is the result of actions of others -- elected officials, managers, worker bees -- just like any corporation. I have founded many business corporations and llcs and the legal term for them is "artificial entity." They are created by law, not nature. And thus "they" do not actually exist in the natural world. By using the idea this way,…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago (833+ words) [lightbulb] Photo Credit:free image, Pixabay license Colin Behrens from PixabayHow easily "self-autonomy" becomes self-delusion or the will of others! Seeking Moral Direction in the Dark I once read a Christian church bulletin that contained the following advice: "Believe nothing merely because you have been told it, or it has been traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Believe whatsoever you find to be conducive to the good, to benefit the welfare of all things." This precept was attributed to Buddha. Missing from the quote was a reference to the monks to whom Gautama Buddha was speaking, as he trained them to look beyond themselves for enlightenment. It was a statement not intended for neophytes. Whoever takes as moral direction the varied, usually false interpretations of oriental wisdom is more likely than not unaware that respect for tradition and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (809+ words) Back in 2010, after President Obama had been in office for a year, it was clear that America's political divisions had reached the boiling point. I saw my country start to come apart at the seams. The American schism was almost complete and it wasn't just a political schism of two political parties. The split was even more basic. My countrymen were now divided into two distinct groups. I am not speaking of Republicans and Democrats, but rather pragmatists and idealists. By virtue of his election as a minority person, Mr. Obama had fulfilled the first of his promises to Americans that if elected he would fundamentally transform the U.S. His actual quote from a speech given in Columbia, Missouri on Oct.30in 2008 was: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America". And with his inauguration as America's…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago (568+ words) By the 1800s, the core of learning in schools had begun to shift. For more than 200 years, American culture has endured an onslaught of secular ideologies that gradually have undermined our Christian'foundations.' In late 1824, Robert Owen, a Welsh utopian textile manufacturer who communicated with spirits through mediums and s'ances, arrived in America. He founded the New Harmony socialist commune in Indiana that soon failed. He proposed that government should educate children and introduced the Prussian government indoctrination system that inspired our first public schools. In the late 1830s, socialists, determined to replace the Biblical lessons with secularism, established government-controlled -- public " schools. This would be implemented by teachers educated in the new teacher colleges that standardized what government wanted students to learn. In the 21st century, the core of education shifted still further from the Bible with the implementation of Common Core Curriculum Standards…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (273+ words) In the Anglosphere in general, and particularly in the UK, for the last two decades, we have seen veiled women in the street, in public and private jobs, and even in Parliament at Westminster. In the USA, the Congress is now affected, too. The European Union, the American left, and all Western elites have opened the floodgates to millions of immigrants pouring in from the Third World. Under Biden, for four years, it was at a rate of 10,000 per day. The European Court of Human Rights is now considering granting rights and benefits to the second, third, and Nth wives, as well as to their children. When you invite the Third World to your home, you incrementally start to resemble the Third World. The financial burden of invasive immigration is weighing us down, leading to a "10 billion annual deficit for…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago (339+ words) The best, most detailed description of the 28-point peace plan, what it contains and how it was presented to Zelensky is in Jeff Childer's substack. Politico said,The agency has charged 71 current and former MPs with corruption, 42 of them during the period between 2022 and 2025. 31 of the charged MPs still sit in the Ukrainian parliament." Andriy Yermak, his top aide, is under attack from Ukrainian lawmakers who demand he be fired. (Yermak appears to have found urgent affairs to attend to in Istanbul, to wherehe's decamped.) Other ministers have also resigned or skedaddled out of the country, including the former defense minister, who reportedly came to the U.S., sought asylum, and offered his cooperation in the corruption scandal. This is ugly political hardball; the Mafia-like offer that can't be refused, the horse head in the bedsheets. The only reason Zelensky wasn't himself…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago (644+ words) [AI Tucker Carlson] Photo Credit:Grok GrokIf you haven't left the Tucker train yet, hold tight: he is coming for a hero or principle you love. Confessions of an Ex-Tucker Fan In the school of Tuckerism, I was a prospective PhD. I never missed Tucker's Fox News monologues. Every night, I imbibed his lively lectures, treating his conservative social critique as a nightly devotional. His cuts into liberalism were scalpel-sharp. I once commented to my wife, after another of Tucker's surgical vivisections of some liberal propagandist, "I'd hate to be one of his liberal guests." Though sometimes, looking back, the red flags were there'baseless conspiracy theories punctuated with an emphatic "This is just true, period!he still put on a nightly clinic on how to deconstruct the left. But now the scalpel-like critiques are gone, replaced by pernicious conspiracies, reputation…...