What happened to education in America? Do they still teach the three R’s: reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic? According to George Will writing for Human Events, three R’s are the backbone of today’s education: racism, reproduction, and recycling; but mostly racism. Will shares several examples some of the bizarre of what our education system of today thinks is important. One that caught my eye was the University of California in San Diego. In 2911, it was cutting back on their academic offerings, but it had money for some new positions: it created a “vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion” to augment [...]
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Taking America Back One Bit At A Time – Part 3: The Taking Of America
P art 1 of this series on Taking America Back One Bit At A Time can be found here and Part 2 can be found here. The Taking of America In Part 2, The Making of America, we left off with the delegates to the Convention producing their constitution for America and the warning from Ben Franklin that we were given a republic, if we could keep it. But, the job of constituting this new nation, The Republic of the United States of America, was not yet done. It was now necessary to get the states to ratify the new constitution. This effort would produce the [...]
Taking America Back One Bit At A Time -Part 2:The Making of America
Part 1 of this series, Introduction, can be found here The Making of America .This will be a very broad brush review of our Founding. Conservatives more than most know the history of how America came to be. It is the Taking of America we need to understand better. The original settlements of what is now the Eastern sea board of the United States of America were colonies of England. The people were subjects of the crown no less the people of England and for the most part they were content with being Englishmen. They were almost uniformly Christians. That [...]
Taking America Back One Bit At A Time Part 1: Introduction
On November 26, 2012, I wrote a post titled Is It Time For Conservatives to Start Thinking Long Term? Support from my readers was less than I had hoped it would be. As part of that post, an article by Andrew Klavan was linked and I asked that readers review and share their opinions on Klavan’s long view plan for taking back America. Klavan addressed three areas of gradual attack: bringing balance back to news media, bringing balance back to the entertainment industry, and bringing our Judeo-Christian God back into our culture. All lofty goals to be sure. For my part, I wrote [...]
2012 Turning Into Battle Between Successful American and Bankrupt European models?
Some of you probably don’t enjoy the ‘Obama everyday’ approach that some blogs have adopted, and I have also struggled with this, but the truth of the matter is that this Presidential campaign is increasingly becoming a story between two opposing forces and a good storyteller (me) should always focus on the main characters in that battle. The battle lines have been drawn up. On one side is President Barack Obama, who has taken the lead in the new-look Democratic Party and is being followed by assorted people like Senator Stabenow and Congresswomen Nancy Pelosi. He has declared war on [...]
Why is America the Greatest Country on Earth? Or Is It?
Of course, instead of facing this and holding politicians accountable, our media will continue to play to the distractions, the nonsense and the irrelevant instead of asking the hard questions, demanding answers and informing voters. The above quote is from a Questions and Observations post in which Bruce McQuain is talking about how much worse our so-called economic recovery is than we are being told. It is an excellent article which I highly recommend. Today, however, I am more interested in his rebuke of the media in the above quote. Please keep the rebuke in mind while watching the following video. I first saw the video in a by [...]
America, The Land of the Free? What Constitution?
Apart from some of us in the blogosphere, Americans go about their daily live with no cognition that their freedoms are being eroded away. There is no perception that they are any less free today than they ever were. And that, I believe, is by design. Our constitution exist to protect us from our government, to protect our unalienable rights and, to limit the power of our government in Washington. Yet today our government pays little heed to this sacred document. While I was recovering from retina surgery to my only, I managed to read my favorite blogs every day. [...]
Hollywood Files for Divorce from America
Hollywood, long synonymous with America and American culture announced today that it intends to file for divorce. “This has been a long time coming” said Hollywood. “We’ve grown apart. We no longer share the same values. America and I have nothing in common. Hell, we don’t even like each other anymore.” As part of the divorce settlement Hollywood is asking for custody of the mansions, private jets and high-flow toilets. Insiders say that one source of friction between Hollywood and America was that Americans stopped going to the anti-American propaganda movies that Hollywood insisting on making. Said an anonymous source: Hollywood was [...]
The American Spirit – Do We Still Have It?
Have you noticed, when talking to people on any issue at all, how difficult it is to get a definitive answer as to where they stand? That little word BUT keeps getting in the way. Brian Wilson, writing for LewRockwell.Com, has some insights into what people really mean when they use that word, BUT. It’s a very humorous article and it’s not very long. so skip on over and give it a quick read then come back and we’ll talk about a more serious aspect of this phenomena. [ ] Okay. Was it worth a few chuckles? I certainly enjoyed it. There [...]
Blog Focus: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Many of us have noted experiencing a sense that evil is overtaking the world. Some might scoff at that assertion, but there is some evidence to support that claim. William Stout, of the Paladin’s Page left a comment on a recent post at King Shamus. When I visited his site, I saw this brilliant post. Take a look at this excerpt. Lately, I cannot shake the feeling that evil is stalking the Earth once again. I have been witness to chilling parallels that hearken back to the rise of the Nazis in the thirties, I have witnessed the near collapse of the [...]
Secession or Expatriation?
With all the differences that have appeared in our society it is likely that some of them or in fact irreconcilable. I will never be in favor of redistribution of the wealth and I suspect my liberal counterpart cannot bear ceasing to try and control me. On these things I think that we will never come to a meeting of the minds. To that I say so be it. You go your way and I will go mine. As it is there are more conservatives in America than there are liberals. If you looked at the most liberal states you [...]
Hope for America from Americans
If there is one thing that Americans could use these days is a little inspiration. There are some really good things about this country that should really cheer everyone up. For now, we live in freedom with 230 years of history in a nation with the most perfect Constitution in the world in all of history. Most of us are eating well and are getting on with our lives fairly well. Some are hurting and many good Americans are stepping up to help. Despite all efforts to evict Him, God is still alive and well and can be worshipped here [...]
Dear Mr. President…
In life we all experience some things that are just so wrong. Wrong in the way it is to torture puppies or to beat a homeless person. To encounter such things is a call to. America we have such an opportunity this Christmas. We can inundate the White House with telegrams. Tell Mr. Obama how wrong it is to inflict upon New York this sham of a trial glorifying the terrorists and condemning America. This decision is not only wrong, it is wrong in the worst way: it is evil. Mr. Obama, you have said that you have left this [...]
A Man Without a President
When I was a student a short story that was required reading was “A man without a Country”. In that work of fiction the protagonist of the story, Philip Nolan, curses America and declares that he hoped he would never see or hear of America again. This work from 1863 by Edward Everett Hale is a great read and can really induce reflection upon what America means to each of us. For me it solidified the foundation of my patriotism which had been laid by my family and community. I never look at Old Glory but what my chest swells [...]
