FCTA Keepers: Important Posts For Reference
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This page contains links to what FCTA considers "keepers" -- those articles which our readers might consider "food for thought" and important for reference, regardless of date posted.
Public Edu: Epoch Times: Examining Education in the United States -- a series by Alex Newman
For Wisdom: Victor Davis Hanson ... Dennis Prager ... Jeffrey A Tucker
"Some of you readers with liberal leanings may find my opinions sting a little. That is okay. Liberalism is a disease from which you can be cured. Trust me, I'm a doctor!" -- Krayton Kerns, DVM (formerly The Montana Cow Doctor)
FCPS Watch: Blog: Fairfax Schools Monitor - the latest "wokeness" from FCPS
FCPS ClgBd: FCPS College Board Reports for 2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023
Note FCTA had to FOIA these reports, as FCPS does not post them on its web site.
Climate Ch: Video: The History and Future of Climate Change, by Peter Temple (5:31)
All you need to know regarding "climate change": Climate change periodicity is driven by solar activity and earth's position relative to the other planets. Mr. Temple shows earth's alternate warming and cooling periods over the last 4,000 years resembling a sine wave, that the current Modern Warm Period has peaked, and that we're heading into a cold and dry period.
2024-12-17: AMAC: The End Of The Long Obama Era, by Walter Samuel
We have experienced 16 years of Obama-style fascism, with Democrats blindly adopting insane policies from bureaucratic institutions -- not because they appealed to voters or even to many Democrats themselves, but because their "betters" told them to. The November election results seem to indicate that the public has finally had enough.
2024-11-20: RealClear Wire: Make Education Great Again!, By Adam Ellwanger
Imagine these words as the first speech delivered by the incoming Secretary of Education. ... "Today, I am here to deliver bitter medicine: American education has failed. Teachers and parents, administrators and government—and even students -- all bear some responsibility. ..."
2024-11-16: Brownstone: The Revolution Of 2024, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Trump's overwhelming victory is on a scale not seen since 1828 when, four years after the presidency was stolen from Jackson, Old Hickory came back in a wild landslide and cleaned up Washington. Trump arrives in Washington with a mandate for the same, with 81% of the public demanding that the government shrink in size and power.
2024-10-xx: IMPRIMUS: Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order, by Kevin D. Roberts
Adapted from a talk delivered in Christ Chapel at Hillsdale College on October 23, 2024, as part of the Drummond Lectures in Christ Chapel series.
2024-10-28: WaPo: Americans don't trust the news media, By Jeff Bezos
Journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom in public trust. newspapers, like voting machines, must meet two requirements: They must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement.
2024-10-24: Daily Reckoning: The Green New Scam Is Dying, by James Rickards
Americans are beginning to realize that so-called Global Warming is a false narrative that benefits only the elites pushing that narrative. The bottom line is that the Green New Scam is falling apart. It can't happen soon enough.
2024-10-15: Bloomberg's Interview with Donald Trump in Chicago
This is the full transcript of former President Trump's interview from Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at a Bloomberg News and Chicago Economic Club event in Chicago, Illinois on October 15, 2024.
2024-10-09: Brownstone: USA In Recession Since 2022 Q1, by EJ Antoni, Peter St Onge
Once you adjust GDP to adapt it in real vs nominal terms, it reveals that we've been in recession since the first quarter of 2022. Indeed, 7 of the last 10 quarters have been net down in terms of economic growth. We've actually been witnessing a period of grueling recession, masked only by statistical illusion.
2024-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Dangers of Price Controls, by Henry Hazlitt and Brian Wesbury
An update to the first issue of Imprimis, published in May 1972, which featured an article titled "The Dangers of Price Controls" by Henry Hazlitt.
2024-09-06: Zerohedge: The Process Of Tyranny (and currently), by Brandon Smith
The usual stages of tyranny: increasingly bigger government, socialist control of resources, the melding of bureaucracy and corporate entities, demands for "social justice", collectivist propaganda, the abandonment of individual merit (economic and cultural Marxism), and finally, the adoption of Futurism (where history is deemed irrelevant). Futurism is, in my view, the key to all modern authoritarianism.
2024-08-23: IM-1776: RFK Jr. Address to the Nation -- the full transcript
2024-08-22: Brownstone: What Is Really Going on at Federal Agencies?, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Our 429 (!??) federal agencies comprise a corporatist system that would never be tolerated at any private company. If "democracy dies in darkness", let's shine the light of truth on the vast complex of civilian agencies that purport to manage our lives better than we can ourselves.
2024-08-16: Tucker Carlson: Interviews Calley & Casey Means, Big Pharma Critics, transcript
Whistleblowers Calley and Casey Means expose how Big Pharma co-opted government agencies and the food industry to poison America and keep us sick.
2024-08-12: X: Elon Musk interviews Donald Trump -- the full transcript
2024-08-09: Bacon's Rebellion: Metro's Fiscal Train Wreck, by James Bacon
The DC Metro is now the most expensive major heavy rail system to operate in the country. Maybe it's time to think the unthinkable and let Metro go belly up. Or perhaps sell to the private sector liberated from an onerous labor contract and a welter of federal regulations.
2024-07-26: AMAC: LAWFARE, The Sinister Plot To Get Trump, by Shane Harris
Until Joe Biden's debate fiasco, no narrative in the 2024 campaign had dominated the news cycle like the multi-pronged liberal effort to use the legal system and government power to slander, impoverish, and ultimately imprison Donald Trump.
2024-06-05: Zerohedge: Our Crisis of Competence, by Charles Hugh Smith
America is mired in a crisis of competence: "can do" has decayed to "can't do". A great many things are longer worth the frustration, and an even greater number of things are no longer worth the price being demanded. Competence has been reduced to 1) increasing profits this quarter; 2) narrative control / social media visibility and 3) following process rather than results.
2024-05-22: Brownstone: What Really Happened: Lockdown until Vaccination, by Jeffery Tucker
Big Pharma had been waiting twenty-plus years to test their magical mRNA concoctions, and lockdowns would keep natural herd immunity in the population at bay until Big Pharma could come in and 'save the day'. There could be no Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine, not because they didn't work but precisely because they did. The last thing the pandemic planners wanted was a cure that was not mRNA.
2024-05-17: Zerohedge: Whistling Past The National Train Wreck, by Donald Jeffries
There are only so many ways one can say that America is collapsing. Everywhere we look, things are wrecked -- a sad vestige of what they were even a decade ago. And in the populous there are millions of people awake now, to varying degrees; but millions more are sound asleep, and even recoil at those trying to awaken them from their stupor.
2024-05-07: Brownstone: The Proof of Censorship is ... Censored, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
The extent of the Censorship Industrial Complex is finally being examined in a report to Congress documenting evidence of a systematic, aggressive, and deeply entrenched effort on the part of the federal government to tear out the guts of the Internet and social media culture and replace them with Pravda-style propaganda.
2024-04-16: Tucker Carlson: Interviews Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram -- transcript
The social media app Telegram has over 900 million users around the world. Its founder Pavel Durov sat down with us at his offices in Dubai for his first on-camera interview in almost a decade.
2024-03-19: Brownstone: American Capitalism Has Mutated Into Corporatism, by Jeffery Tucker
In free enterprise, the old rule is that the customer is always right. But when government itself becomes a main and even dominant customer, the ethos of private enterprise is thereby changed. Enterprise turns its attention to serving its powerful masters in the halls of the state, gradually weaving close relationships and forming a ruling class that becomes a conspiracy against the public.
2024-03-06: Brownstone: In Health Care, We Are Flying Blind, by Jeffery A. Tucker
In American healthcare, risk assessment has been outlawed (HIPAA in 1996; Obamacare in 2010) as regards to costs to the consumer, who thus has no guidance or incentive to make intelligent health care choices, and who must thus resort to internet searchs for healthcare advice.
2024-02-29: Brownstone: The Consensus Conspiracy, by Thomas Buckley
Both 'onsensus' and 'conspiracy' are defined as "a group of people thinking that something is most likely correct or good or the best way to do or think about something", differing only in psychological perception. So covid and climate change, for example, start out as consensus and eventually fall into the conspiracy category. Perhaps the real menace afoot today: the 'consensus theorist'.
2024-02-19: Brownstone: Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom, by Jeff Tucker
A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1943). He predicts the rise of today's credentialed managerial class, detached from the real-world consequences of the ideas they push, assuming unique cultural power and a united interest in constructing social and political systems that benefit themselves at others' expense.
2024-02-15: Brownstone: The Great Reset Didn't Work: The Case of EVs, by Jeffrey Tucker
We are living through one of history's longest and most excruciating versions of "We told you so." Every bit of the warnings regarding the Covid mandates proved true. And now those early warnings about EV mandates are also proving true, as unsold electric vehicles clog dealer lots. What astonishing illusions were born of this nutty and destructive period!
2024-02-03: Tucker Carlson: Interviews Calley Means, Big Ag/Pharma Critic -- transcript
"If a fish tank is dirty, you clean the tank. You don't drug the fish." -- Calley Means makes the case against Ozempic.
2024-02-02: Daily Reckoning: The Great Growth Hoax, by Jeffrey Tucker
Since the supposedly amazing GDP report from Q4 2023, we've been blasted by the media about how great the economy is doing. But the GDP data is not reflective of anything real except government profligacy and stagnation in every sector that counts. It now takes over $2.50 in new debt to generate $1 of GDP growth! So skip the headlines and look at the underlying realities.
2024-01-xx: CTUP: Them vs. U.S. (The Elites vs. Regular Americans) -- Rasmussen survey
The Elites, a group with extraordinary political and societal power, have views and attitudes that are wildly out of touch with the American people. At the center of the gap is a difference of opinion over individual freedom. Most Americans think there is too little freedom in our nation today, a view shared by only 21% of the Elites.
2023-12-29: Brownstone: Consent of the Governed, Where Art Thou?, by Robert W. Malone
Governments and Pharma are withholding adverse event data, and thereby are unilaterally making medical decisions for sovereign individuals and their children, in violation of the Geneva Convention. This is what we have come to: The nanny State knows best, and will withhold medical information from the public which would cause members of that public to question its wisdom and decision-making.
2023-12-29: AMAC: Media's Year Of Moral Collapse, by B. C. Brutus
Journalism schools may someday point to 2023 as the year of a final moral collapse for the corporate media -- a point of no return ultimately reached after years of ethical decline and loss of credibility with the public.
2023-12-23: Brownstone: The Velvet Fascism of "Protect our Democracy", by Thomas Buckley
When the Left refers to "protecting our democracy", they really mean "protecting their democracy"; not a democracy of the people, but now merely a word used to fig leaf the ever-expanding slither of socialist socialite statism, the velvet fascism that is deftly hammering its way through the society and the culture.
2023-12-21: Brownstone: Why We Love the Nutcracker, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
What theater goers don't entirely realize is that they are watching something even more wonderful than what they see. In this one ballet, we gain a picture of a prosperous world that emerged in the late 19th century, was shortly shattered by war and revolution, and then was nearly killed off by the political and ideological experimentation of the 20th century.
2023-12-15: Brownstone: What Will Become of Cities?, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Everyone was supposed to be back at the office by now. It's not really happening, however, and this has huge implications for the future of the American city.
2023-12-12: Rasmussen: 21% of Mail-In Voters Admit They Cheated in 2020 Election
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and The Heartland Institute finds that 21% of Likely U.S. voters who voted by absentee or mail-in ballot in the 2020 election say they filled out a ballot, in part or in full, on behalf of a friend or family member, such as a spouse or child. (So much for the narrative that the 2020 election was the most secure in history.)
2023-11-20: Zerohedge: The mRNAs didn't end Covid, Omicron did, by Alex Berenson
The Society of Actuaries have released an updated report on deaths during the pandemic that shows what really slayed Covid. It didn't come from Pfizer or Moderna; it came from the much weaker Omicron variant, which swept through the United States in the winter of 2022, reducing mortality for the vaccinated and unvaccinated young and old alike. The takeaway: virus gonna virus.
2023-11-14: Free Press: Why I Am Now a Christian, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As Edmund Burke asserts, "man is by his constitution a religious animal." Islamism understands this, and that's the secret of its mass appeal. We in the secular West are fighting a reactive battle: what vision now guides us? what banner do we rally around? Ali -- having been first a devout Muslim and then an aethist -- finds the answer in Christianity.
2023-10-xx: IMPRIMUS: Why the CIA No Longer Works -- and How to Fix It, by Charles Faddis
Adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 3, 2023, during a conference on "U.S. Intelligence: History and Controversies".
2023-10-22: Brownstone: The Social Contract Is Shredded, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
It started with Covid. Conventional wisdoms were overridden worldwide and caused a breakdown in medical protocols and havoc in education and in economic policy. Governments drifted away from defending the rights and liberties of their people, and have lost the public trust. It's like 1914 all over again.
2023-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: Inside the Transgender Empire, by Christopher F. Rufo
Adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale's Washington, D.C. campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
2023-09-13: Zerohedge: The Climate Dissent You're Not Hearing About, by John Murawski
More than 1,600 scientists, among them two Nobel physics laureates, John Clauser and Ivar Giaever of Norway, signed a declaration stating that there is no climate emergency, and that climate advocacy has devolved into mass hysteria. The skeptics say the radical transformation of entire societies is marching forth without a full debate, based on dubious scientific claims amplified by knee-jerk journalism.
2023-08-25: Brownstone: The Great Game of 'Let's Pretend', by Jeffrey A. Tucker
It's a very strange time in American political history. We have one line of thinking sweeping through the population -- which is based on mass incredulity and fury -- and then another which is a veneer of normalcy that is slathered on top of our anger by all official institutions, which work hard to keep all these topics out of respectable conversations.
2023-08-18: Zerohedge: Understanding Parasitic Cooperation between Globalists and Leftists
To understand the political left and their tactics you have to understand their relationship with the globalists. Woke useful idiots see power as something that must be stolen through intimidation or force. Globalists see power as something that is handed to them by useful idiots. Without the leftist mob the globalists have no power.
2023-07-26: Epoch Times: Niacin - The Powerhouse Vitamin, by Huey Freeman
Niacin inhibits the depositing of plaque in the arteries, protecting the heart and brain. Niacin proponents say the vitamin has the best record of lowering cholesterol levels, triglycerides, and lipoprotein (a), as well as elevating the levels of high-density cholesterol (HDL), the preferred cholesterol.
2023-07-18: Weston Price: Naomi Wolf Interviewed on Pfizer Documents Expose, by Hilda Gore
The Pfizer documents on the testing of the Covid-19 vaccine were released by court order in March 2022. A detailed analysis of the documents reveals that not only was Pfizer's Covid-19 injection far from safe and effective, but it was intentionally designed to harm the world's populace and impede human reproduction. ...
2023-07-12: Weston Price: The Omega-6 Apocalypse, by Dr. Chris Knobbe, MD
In the Western world over the past two centuries, chronic diseases, once rare, have become ubiquitous. Concurrently, the Western world has seen a dramatic rise in processed food consumption and notably of industrial seed oils high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), especially omega-6 fatty acids.
2023-05-09: Brownstone: Problem of Lost Knowledge - Antibiotic Edition, by Jeffrey Tucker
The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus itself, but by bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. With COVID, Deja Vu! The system failed to incorporate the previously existing wisdom we learned from a century earlier. Instead, regulatory capture created an unfathomable amount of suffering.
2023-04-27: Rev.com: Tucker Carlson Breaks Silence After Leaving Fox -- transcript
... "Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state. Our current orthodoxies won't last. They're brain-dead. Nobody actually believes them. Hardly anyone's life is improved by them. This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won't." ...
2023-04-23: Am Greatness: Do We Even Know We Are All Socialists Now?, by Victor Davis Hanson
I doubt all the Germans who voted in National Socialism quite foresaw what quickly was to come. Those who overthrew the Bourbons or the Romanoffs had no real idea that they had sown the wind and were soon to reap the Jacobin and Bolshevik whirlwind. So it is with our "woke" -- a euphemism for the socialist revolution we are in and do not fully appreciate or even understand.
2023-04-13: Brownstone: What Bud Light Fiasco Reveals about Ruling Class, by Jeffery Tucker
The Bud Light fiasco is a perfect symbol of a problem that afflicts high-end corporate and government culture: a shocking blindness toward the mainstream of American life. Corporate elites become as feudal warlords. The foundations of market capitalism begin to erode, and workers become ever more alienated from final consumption of the product they have made possible. The boycotts of Bud Light are but a beginning.
2023-03-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Biden Economy and How It Could Be Fixed, by Andrew F. Puzder
Adapted from a talk delivered on February 22, 2023, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Indian Wells, California.
2023-03-28: Tablet Mag: Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century, by Jacob Siegel
"A brilliant if melancholy overview, showing in exhaustive detail how the U.S. government, abbetted by the mainstream media and what has come to be called the "elite" or "ruling class" opinion generally, has repurposed surveillance tools developed to combat terrorism and turned them against the American people." -- Roger Kimball
2023-03-07: AMAC: College Industrial Complex's Left-wing Lies, by Betsy McCaughey
Families saving for college and encouraging their kids to aim for the top are getting scammed by the left-wing college industrial complex. Colleges distort and outright lie about who gets accepted, education quality, and what it costs. They'd be in jail if they were selling auto loans and used the same deceptive tactics.
2023-02-xx: IMPRIMUS: America's Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Rx, by John Abramson
Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on March 5, 2023, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on "Big Pharma".
2023-01-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Twitter Files Reveal an Existential Threat, by John Davidson
Adapted from a lecture delivered on February 7, 2023.
2023-01-31: Brownstone: The Decline and Fall of the University, by Garrett Sheldon
SSince retiring from the university, several people have asked if I miss it. I tell them I miss what it was, but not what it has become. Higher education in America has gone from being the best in the world to one of the most pathetic.
2023-01-26: Zerohedge: The Race to the Bottom Accelerates, by Charles Hugh Smith
Race to the Bottom describes the process of competitive devaluation, where value is gutted to remain competitive. We see it in everyday products, but also in currency devaluation and the decay of civility, politics, competence, accountability, and transparency. The process is accelerating because we've lost the ability to solve problems due to the power of entrenched insiders and powerful interests.
2023-01-25: Project Veritas: Pfizer May 'Go Wuhan' to 'Preemptively Develop New Vaccines'
Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a Pfizer executive, Jordon Trishton Walker, who claims that his company is exploring a way to "mutate" COVID via "Directed Evolution" [aka: Gain-of-Function] to preempt the development of future vaccines.
2023-01-25: AMAC: The Extensive History of Democrat-Linked Voter Fraud, by Parker Bono
For nearly two centuries, the Democrat Party and its members have been utilized as a means to support various forms of voter fraud throughout the United States. These nefarious efforts have evolved over the years, with those on the left now being able to execute the practice to near-perfection.
2023-01-23: Epoch Times: The Downfall of the Gurus, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
What is it about the appearance of a new virus (with a very low fatality rate) that caused their heads to explode? Why were they so willing to throw out principles they held for most of their lives? And it is not just that they were wrong. They used their influence to demonize, smear, and censor those who dared to disagree.
2022-12-18: Brownstone: We Are Still Locked Down, by Jeffrey Tucker
Twitter is now mostly open, for now. The rest of the venues remain wholly controlled. Brownstone has posts tagged, throttled, and sometimes deleted from LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and it is a constant struggle to avoid Google's own push against our content. The point of such top-down censorship is not only to control the public mind. It is also to keep all of us from finding each other.
2022-12-18: Am Greatness: 10 Steps to Save America, by Victor Davis Hanson
1) Cut the Debt; 2) Secure the Border; 3) Tap Natural Resources; 4) Oppose Discrimination; 5) Disrupt and Reform Higher Education; 6) Revive the Armed Forces; 7) Fix Voting; 8) Drain the Swamp; 9) Upend the Welfare State; 10) Restore Norms.
2022-12-09: DiLorenzo: Why the Left Must Destroy Free Speech - or Be Destroyed
The eleventh chapter of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom is entitled "The End of Truth", about the historical imperative in all totalitarian states throughout history to destroy freedom of speech so that the only true belief is "the social plan" imposed by the state, whatever that may be. This is achieved by relentless institutionalized lying and propaganda, coupled with harsh censorship of all contrary ideas or even questions about the propriety of forcefully imposing one single "social plan". This is American society today, in other words, in case you haven't noticed.
2022-12-09: Brownstone: The Twitter Files: Just the Beginning, by Jeffrey Tucker
What pertains to Twitter is surely true at Google (therefore YouTube), Facebook (therefore Instagram), Microsoft (therefore LinkedIn), and even Amazon, with information curated according to the priorities of the national security state. If Elon Musk had not bought Twitter, all of this would have remained hidden. We came very close to losing every bit of free speech.
2022-11-xx: IMPRIMUS: Education as a Battleground, by Larry P. Arnn
Adapted from remarks delivered on November 3, 2022, at a Hillsdale College reception in Santa Clara, California.
2022-11-29: Epoch Times: 'Gaslighting' Is Word of the Year for Good Reason, by Jeffrey Tucker
Every year Merriam-Webster picks a word to capture the culture of a moment in time. The choice is based on the frequency and quantity of search as well as the departure from the norm. This year the choice seems perfect: gaslighting. It's drawn from the 1944 film noir starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. The term means to be subjected to extended psychological trickery to cause the victim to question his or own reality.
2022-11-19: Brownstone: Technocracy and Totalitarianism, by Aaron Kheriaty
20th-century totalitarian ideologies included Communism and Fascism. The 21st-century equivalent is "Scientism", requiring "experts" to explain what cannot be rationalized. Why bother with brute force and physical violence, when defamation and exclusion from public discourse works just as effectively -- Fascism by peaceful means.
2022-11-15: Epoch Times: How Google Stopped the Red Wave, by Robert Epstein
Google for months nudged undecided voters toward voting blue by showing people politically biased content in their search engine, and selectively injecting 'ephemeral experiences'-- content that appears briefly, affects people, and then disappears. Up to 80M votes may have been thus affected over hundreds of elections, far eclipsing any irregularities from fake ballots and other dirty tricks.
2022-11-12: Epoch Times: The Youth Problem, by Mark Bauerlein
The web turned into a surveillance and tattletale zone, and cancel culture took off. Gen-Z has never known anything different, with no living memory of life before the iPhone. They'll be the most conformist cohort in American history, and politics will be a primary mode of grouping.
2022-11-09: Spiked: A tale of two Americas, by Joel Kotkin
Yesterday's Midterms showed the geographic disparity in America. One is primarily urban, single and, despite some GOP gains in this demographic, still largely non-white. It functions on the backs of finance, tech and the service industries. The other is largely suburban or exurban, family centric and more likely involved in basic industries like manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and energy.
2022-11-03: Brownstone: Global Health and the Art of Really Big Lies, by David Bell
The principle of Really Big Lies: So divorced from reality that listener's perception must be flawed rather than the liar, as no credible institution would hire such insanity; but since the institution was apparently credible, the statements must also be credible, and the listener's prior perception must be flawed. Lesser lies, by contrast, can be proved wrong. So inventing truth can be more effective than bending it.
2022-10-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 20, 2022, sponsored by the student group Praxis.
2022-10-26: Substack: Journalism in Crisis: The War on Dissent, by Whitney Webb
Journalism become a battlefield where the most powerful media outlets -- that is, those closest to the centers of power -- deliberately manipulate or omit facts to craft narratives that expressly benefit the powerful while also colluding to censor their more truthful competition. Their allegiances lie not with the public, but with those with the deepest pockets.
2022-10-21: GDI: "Disinformation" Risk in US Online Media, by US State Dept
The US State Dept has been funding a "disinformation" tracking group through its Global Engagement Center (GEC), which reportedly works at demonetizing sites it accuses of disseminating "disinformation" -- a (hilarious) analysis of 10 left-leaning sites and 10 conservative sites.
2022-10-20: Epoch Times: Funeral Directors Report 95% of Corpses Recently VAXXed
A funeral director from New Zealand says that 95 percent of the corpses he has been seeing had received a COVID-19 vaccine within two weeks of their passing away. Similar data has been discussed by funeral director John O'Looney in the UK and Richard Hirschman from Alabama.
2022-10-02: Townhall: The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization, by Victor Davis Hanson
The great achievements of Western civilization are being tested by a great experiment in which regressive progressivism discounts all the institutions, and the methodologies of the past that have guaranteed a safe, affluent, well-fed and sheltered America.
2022-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: Complications of the Ukraine War, by Christopher Caldwell
Adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 4, 2022, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on the topic of Russia.
2022-09-15: AMAC: The First Post-Media Election, by Seamus Brennan
We are living through an era of revolutions in American politics: one of which is the dismantling of the news media, whose credibility in the last few years has reached new lows. In short, it appears the media's decisive influence in driving our elections may be in terminal decline, and we could very well look back on the 2022 midterm cycle as the first truly "post-media" election.
2022-09-03: AIER: Actual Capitalism vs Intervention vs Fascism, by Max Borders
Actual capitalism refers to an entrepreneurial market system with minimal government intervention -- not where we've been for some time now. The current interventionism creates ideal conditions under which corporations and authorities may collude, and boy they do! Intervention gives rise to either cronyism or fascism, the difference being only in the authorities' objectives.
2022-09-02: Epoch Times: Embalmers Finding Numerous Long, Fibrous Clots, by Enrico Trigoso
Several embalmers across the country have been observing many large, and sometimes very long, "fibrous" and rubbery clots inside the corpses they treat, and are speaking out about their findings. "Before 2021, 5-10% of the bodies that we would embalm would have blood clots; now it's 50-70%, and it's rare to embalm a body without clots."
2022-08-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Politicization of the Dept of Justice, by Harmeet K. Dhillon
Adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on September 16, 2022, in Washington, D.C., at Hillsdale College’s Constitution Day Celebration.
2022-08-29: Substack: The Psychology of Totalitarianism, by Mattias Desmet
As the author's new book relates in detail, the world is in the grips of mass formation -- a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis -- as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and relies on destructive groupthink.
2022-08-21: Am Greatness: The Worst and the Stupidest?, by Victor Davis Hanson
Our elites are now viewed with the disdain they have earned on their own merits. The masses increasingly view the elites' money, their ZIP codes, their degrees and certificates, and their titles not just with indifference, but with the disdain they now have earned on their own merits. And that pushback has made millions of our worst and stupidest quite mad.
2022-08-03: Brownstone: In Defense of Uncertainty, by Julie Ponesse
If we're entitled to feel certain about anything, wouldn't you expect it to be the little things in life? The coffee mug is where we left it, the gas bill arrives on the 15th. Instead, we seem to reserve certainty for the things we should be least certain about: climate change, Covid policy, the effectiveness of gun control, what it means to be a person, the real causes of inflation.
2022-07-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Rise of Wokeness in the Military, by Thomas Spoehr
Adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on July 20, 2022, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale's Washington, D.C. campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
2022-07-10: Fx GOP: Luke Rosiak on Failures of Public Education -- video(51:50)+transcript
Fairfax GOP's Srilekha Palle interviews Daily Wire investigative journalist Luke Rosiak on the crisis of American K-12 education. Rosiak is the author of Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying Public Education, a book that Chris Rufo calls "a road map for returning to sanity in our schools."
2022-06-27: Zerohedge: It's Not the End of the World, by Jeff Thomas
We're passing through a period in history in which the process of removing freedoms is nearing completion in many of the world's foremost jurisdictions. The EU and US, in particular, are leading the way in this effort. Consequently, it shouldn't be surprising that some predict "the end of the world." But, they couldn't be more incorrect.
2022-05-xx: IMPRIMUS: Laying Siege to the Institutions, by Christopher F. Rufo
Adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on April 5, 2022.
2022-05-31: Brownstone: How the Pandemic Response Changed My Thinking, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Looking back to the "before times" -- meaning before the middle of March 2020 -- we were all quite naive about liberty, technology, the mob, and the state. Most of us had no idea what was possible and that the dystopia in movies could become real in our times, and so suddenly. The intellectual parlor games were over; the fight spilled over from the classrooms to the streets.
2022-05-13: Zerohedge: Mapping the State of Global Democracy in 2022, by Raul Amoros
Full democracy in 6.4% of countries, topped by Norway, New Zealnd, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland. Canada, Germany, the UK, Australia and Japan are also full democracies, but with a lessor rating. The U.S., Chile, and South Africa get a "flawed democracy" rating. Two years after the pandemic, we can see that global democracy is in a downward trend.
2022-05-12: Epoch Times: Is Ivermectin a Cancer Solution?, by Joseph Mercola
It's been vilified as being dangerous, useless or both, but extensive research shows that's not true. This study demonstrates potential for its use against a broad range of cancers. Along with direct cytotoxic effects, it's believed to help regulate the tumor microenvironment, mediating immunogenic cell death.
2022-04-27: Brownstone: Ten Vulnerabilities the Plandemic Exposed, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
The covid response exposed the vulnerabilities of many institutions. It revealed many problems that cry out for solutions, most related to what happened to the US and the world over two years. This is not anywhere near an exhaustive list. ...
2022-04-08: Am Greatness: COVID, Gender, Climate, and Collapse of Science, by Neil Kurtzman
Science is in its worst state since the trial and conviction of Galileo (1633). Science advances by questioning the current state of knowledge and by attempting to fill the gaps. But many of the great scientific issues of today seem governed by dogma rather than debate.
2022-04-07: Zerohedge: The Demographics of Financial Doom, by Charles Hugh Smith
Whether we admit it or not, collapse is the default "solution". That destiny has already been written by demographics. Having children has gone from being an economic necessity or benefit to a tremendous financial liability in the developed world. So the shrinking working-age population will be unable to support the financial and healthcare promises made to the retired generations.
2022-03-29: PragerU: How Much Energy Will the World Need?, by Mark Mills (video 5:22)
Are we heading toward an all-renewable energy future, spearheaded by wind and solar? Or are those energy sources wholly inadequate for the task? Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Cloud Revolution, compares the energy dream to the energy reality.
2022-03-06: Epoch Times: American Children Losing Motivation and Creativity, Teachers Say
Creativity and enthusiasm define childhood, but American children seem to be losing these gifts, teachers say. When teachers compare today's children with their peers from only a few years ago, there's a clear difference, according to an Indiana teacher with 24 years of experience.
2022-03-05: Zerohedge: When Normality Is Exposed As A Ponzi, by Alasdair Macleod
Putin erred in invading Ukraine, but the West's financial retaliation could backfire. Russia has a healthy economy with government debt at less than 20% of GDP, and with significant gold reserves. The West's financial sanctions will likely cause Russia to demand gold in exchange for Russian oil and gas, destabilizing not only the global economy, but its major fiat-based currencies as well.
2022-02-17: Brownstone: And Now, It's Economic Warfare, by Jeffrey A. Tucker
What we are seeing right now in Ottawa reveals the hegemonic depth of the system that gave us lockdowns, then mandates: it is now capable of freezing your accounts and essentially starving you and your family. It's economic warfare.
2022-02-07: Epoch Times: How COVID Shots Suppress Your Immune System, by Joseph Mercola
The shots suppress your innate immune system by inhibiting type-1 interferon. But the type-1 interferon response is absolutely crucial as the first-stage response to a viral infection. The COVID shots are so unnatural that your immune system doesn't quite know what to do anymore. Expect future long-term health issues as a result.
2022-01-xx: IMPRIMUS: Inflation in the United States, John Steele Gordon
Imprimis lecture by author of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
2022-01-21: Epoch Times: Ivermectin Use would Destroy Justification for Vaccine Mandates
Federal health agencies haven't recognized ivermectin as an effective treatment for COVID-19 patients. According to Doctor Leland Stillman, the reason is more political than scientific, because otherwise there would be no basis for lockdowns or vaccine mandates.
2022-01-11: Epoch Times: SARS-COV-2 Vaccines and Neurodegenerative Disease, by S. Seneff
There are many reasons to be wary of the COVID-19 vaccines, which were rushed to market with grossly inadequate evaluation and aggressively promoted to an uninformed public. There are potentially huge, irreversible, negative consequences -- future increases in several major neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, CKD, ALS and Alzheimer's.
2022-01-10: Zerohedge: Global COVID Response Driven By "False Propaganda", by Ehud Qimron
Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli -- and indeed global -- management of the coronavirus pandemic. "Ministry of Health, it's time to admit failure"
2022-01-03: JWR: America Sticks Out Its Tush, by Mark Steyn
America has reached that moment in Blazing Saddles when Mel Brooks throws away the script, and the brawling cowboys on one Hollywood soundstage crash through the wall into the next soundstage and start slugging the gentlemen of the chorus rehearsing a dance number called "The French Mistake". America has literally lost the plot. On the last soundstage, all parts are interchangeable.
2021-12-xx: IMPRIMUS: What Is the Great Reset?, Michael Rectenwald
Imprimis lecture by the Chief Academic Officer of American Scholars
2021-12-28: JWR: The (@#$%&!) Year We Just Lived Through, by Dennis Prager
I thought it would be worthwhile to review some of the most important observations I made over the course of an awful year 2021. I hope you agree, and wish you -- and our country -- a happier New Year.
2021-12-18: Fx Times: Yes, Virginia - there is CRT in our schools, by Elizabeth Schultz
School districts across Virginia have been expending resources, directing staff time, and hiring consultants to address "equity" in curriculum delivery and for professional development of teachers and other employees. Fairfax and Loudoun, the two largest counties in the Commonwealth, have set the lead in driving the changes in education and embracing critical race theory and "anti-bias" in their respective divisions.
2021-12-16: CCCA: Pfizer C-19 Inoculations do More Harm Than Good
Randomized control data deleted; increased risk of illness and death; failure to follow established protocols; tested on healthy, given to sick; didn't track biomarkers; subjective testing; missing data ...
2021-11-15: RSS News: Common Toxins Linked to Autism, by Jennifer Margulis
Diagnosed autism prevalence has risen dramatically in the U.S. over the last several decades and continued to trend upward. Three toxins in the environment that have been increasing alongside the rise in cases of autism are aluminum, glyphosate, and acetaminophen. It is these toxicants that may be contributing most to the increasing rates of brain challenges among America's children. (Related article.)
2021-09-19: Gatestone Inst: A Hinge Moment of History, by Mark Steyn
We're living in the early stages of a future that is the direct consequence of poor public policy over the last couple of generations. Western civilization is sliding off a cliff and most citizens of most Western nations are not even aware of it. I would love it if we would talk about something important.
2021-09-02: ZeroHedge: The Covidian Cult -- Part I, Part II, Part III, by CJ Hopkins
In The Covidian Cult (Part I) and (Part II), I characterized the so-called "New Normal" as a "global totalitarian ideological movement". Since I published those essays, more and more people have come to see it for what it is, not "insanity" or "an overreaction", but, in fact, a new form of totalitarianism, a globalized, pathologized, depoliticized form, which is being systematically implemented under the guise of "protecting the public health".
2021-09-02: JuliusRuechel.com: "Immunity As A Service" - The COVID-Zero Bait-And-Switch
This Deep Dive exposes why the promise of COVID-Zero was a deliberately dishonest shell game designed to prey on a lack of public understanding of how our immune systems work and how most respiratory viruses differ from other viruses. We have been sold a fantasy designed to rope us into a pharmaceutical dependency, variant by variant, for as long as the public is willing to go along for the ride.
2021-08-26: ZeroHedge: The Weaponization Of Medicine, by Paul Rosenberg
I think nearly every adult grasps that medicine is being used as a weapon. We've been losing science and we've been losing medicine; that is flatly unacceptable. The problem underlying all of this is not that people are stupid, it's that they haven't the emotional strength to face unauthorized truth. Having been trained in submission to authority, to then speak against an authority is terrifying, so people find ways to ignore truth.
2021-08-23: Substack: Corona Plandemic, Part of the Great Reset?, by Ernst Wolff
FDR once said: "Nothing happens accidentally in politics, and when something happens, you can bet on it that it was exactly planned that way." When one looks at what happened in the last year and a half, then these words are especially alarming. Can it really be the case, that everything that we've experienced was planned?
2021-08-16: 1776unites.com: Open Letter to Local School Boards
The prevailing narrative of racial grievance has been corrupting the instruction of American history and the humanities for many decades, but has accelerated dangerously over the past year. The most damaging effects of such instruction fall on lower income minority children, who are implicitly told that they are helpless victims with no power or agency to shape their own futures.
2021-08-14: Epoch Times: Dear Next Generation: Pawpaw's Life Lessons, by P.J. Calhoun, Jr
My main goal was to teach my grandsons that you don't become successful in life by mistreating and misleading others. True success is achieved by living a principle-centered life. You are deceiving yourself if you think otherwise, and personal dishonesty has serious consequences. So here are my "Life Lessons" that I prepared only a few years ago.
2021-08-05: ZeroHedge: 'We Will Not Comply' against medical tyranny, by Brandon Smith
The entire world is being locked down and told we have to give up our inherent human liberties because 0.26% of the population might get more than sniffles and brain fog from a covid infection. Why? Well, that's easy; because the covid response and restrictions have nothing to do with public health and everything to do with public control.
2021-07-xx: IMPRIMUS: Gender Ideology Run Amok, Abigail Shrier
Imprimis lecture by author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
2021-07-xx: Limbaugh: Dirty Truth About EVs -- bad for the environment!
For all the globaloney about "net-zero" carbon emissions, the typical electric car contains six times more minerals than a gas-powered car and requires 38% more energy to produce. Plus mining of the required minerals wrecks havoc on the environment, as does efforts to recycle those lithium-ion batteries.
2021-07-26: Epoch Times: A Foretaste of Fascism, by Dinesh D'Souza
The Biden administration has established a shadow state in which the federal government achieves its unconstitutional objectives -- mask mandates, forced vaccines, suppression of religious freedom, and free speech -- by recruiting private corporations to do its bidding. Such a public-private partnership has a name: Fascism.
2021-07-09: Tucker Carlson: Why So Many People Believe Election Was Rigged, by @martyrmade
Never before have so many truth bombs been dropped so rapidly with so few asides. Because the Twitter thread that blows all other Twitter threads away has been written, and is not (yet) banned by Twitter. And tonight, Tucker Carlson read the whole thing aloud. -- Fred T. at RightScoop.com
2021-07-07: The Observer: If you've had Covid-19, you're protected for life
If you've had COVID-19, even a mild case, you've more than likely got immunity for life, according to researchers from Washington University School of Medicine. Cells called plasmablasts provide antibodies, then memory B cells move in to monitor blood for signs of reinfection, and finally bone marrow plasma cells (BMPCs) act as "persistent and essential sources of protective antibodies."
2021-06-18: Fx Times: Yes, there IS Critical Race Theory in our schools, by Eliz. Schultz
Despite protestations of school boards in Fairfax and Loudoun that they are not "teaching" it, there has been a comprehensive, deliberative, and manipulative effort of school staff and the school boards, underway for years. The tactics have been advised and funded by outside progressive consultants, groups, and money - then intentionally expanded statewide - to embrace and deeply-embed critical race theory in our schools. (also ... Schultz in the Daily Mail on 05/20/2021.)
2021-06-13: FCTA: Full Text of English-Lit Classic Books in Fx Co, circa 1962, by D. Swink
These works taught us life's lessons and provided valuable perspective from human history in Western civilization. (Wonder if these are still required in FCPS.)
2021-04-21: Heartland: Climate at a Glance, for Teachers and Students, by Watts and Taylor
An 82-page booklet by Anthony Watts and James Taylor. Facts for climate realists are discussed in 30 prominant climate topics, in 5 categories: The Atmosphere and Land; The Sea and Ice; Temperatures and Extreme Weather; Humans and Animals; Scientific and Policy Controversies
2021-04-15: Epoch Times: Doctor's Advice on Early Treatment for COVID-19, by Conan Milner
Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet is a board-certified physician practicing in Arizona who specializes in preventive medicine. She asserts we should treat COVID with the best practices learned from every other virus, and we're not doing that. The Epoch Times talked to Dr. Vliet about this.
2021-04-09: WayUpNorth: The Tocquevillian Descent into Tyranny, by Joshua Charles
At the end of his seminal work, "Democracy in America," Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville offered a stunningly prescient "prophecy" of how democratic institutions could easily fall into a tyranny unlike anything the world had ever seen before. Nearly two centuries later, his "prophecy" seems to draw closer and closer to fulfillment every day, if it hasn't been fulfilled already.
2021-03-xx: IMPRIMUS: Critical Race Theory: What It Is, How to Fight It, Christopher Rufo
Imprimis lecture by Christopher F. Rufo, Battlefront Founder and Director
2021-03-12: Epoch Times: The Age of Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Joshua Charles
Written in 1985, Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" provides insights that have become more and more relevant and ominous. He argues that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was a more accurate framing of societal changes than George Orwell's 1984. Orwell feared those who would ban books. Huxley feared that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
2021-02-xx: IMPRIMUS: Science, Politics, and COVID: Will Truth Prevail?, by Scott W. Atlas
Imprimis lecture by Scott W. Atlas, Hoover Institution
2021-01-xx: Limbaugh: Obama Never Left -- He's the DNC, now White House, puppet master
Instead of going home to Chicago or Hawaii after leaving office, Barack Obama stayed in Washington and has been directing the undermining of [candidate and then President] Trump for over four years. He was the brains behind the selection of Biden/Harris and the orchestrated Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, and is the current puppet master directing the White House.
2021-01-xx: 1776 Report: President's Advisory 1776 Commission, to unwoke American history
The declared purpose of the President's Advisory 1776 Commission is to "enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union." This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is "accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling."
2021-01-03: AFLDR: The Truth about the CV19 Vaccine, by Dr. Simone Gold
Emergency physician Dr. Simone Gold gives this gobsmacking talk on the Great Awakening show about the breathtaking skullduggery that was coordinated worldwide across governments and health agencies against the drug hydroxychloroquine, the ordering of needless masks and lockdowns, and now the mandating of experimental vaccines. (Video and transcript.)
2020-12-xx: IMPRIMUS: Orwell's 1984 and Today, by Larry P. Arnn
The president of Hillsdale College compares aspects of American society today to the totalitarian novels from George Orwell (1984), Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), and C.S. Lewis (That Hideous Strength).
2020-12-xx: NewEnglishReview.org: A One-Party Fairfax County Goes for Woke, by Eric Rozenman
In Fairfax County, VA, the increasingly oxymoronically-named Democratic Party mimics the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's dystopian 1984, seeking to scrub the past (historical markers) and the present (dumbing down at TJ, critical race theory, et al).
2020-12-04: Epoch Times: Election Fraud Allegations
In the fallout from the Nov. 3 election, numerous credible allegations of voting irregularities have arisen in the form of sworn affidavits and other evidence. Information is transcribed from an Epoch Times infographic and provides an overview of some of the election malfeasance currently known.
2020-11-22: JHU Newsletter: A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19, by Yanni Gu
Since the crude number of total deaths by all causes before and after COVID-19 has stayed the same, one can hardly say, in Briand's view, that COVID-19 deaths are concerning. (But because this analysis doesn't fit the Covid-19 narrative, JHU took has taken the article down.)
2020-10-xx: DHFC: Why History Matters , by Bruce S. Thornton
History is not just the recording of events in chronological order, but a critical examination of their sources, an interpretation of what the events mean, and an analysis of the motivating ideas behind what men and states do. Properly interpreted, society can learn from and avoid mistakes of the past. (Unfortunately, however, the modern sensibility distrusts lessons from the past.)
2020-10-xx: Limbaugh: BLM Takeover of American Sports, and destruction by Wokeness
BLM has absolutely nothing to do with racial justice. It is out to ruin, destroy, and end sports -- because it is out to tear down the American way of life. The upper tier of the sports world's executive suites might not realize that, but the fans do. The only question is how far and how fast the paying sports audience shrinks.
2020-10-15: ZeroHedge: America Is Divided Over Class Not Race In 2020, by Charlie Kirk
The real source of division in America is today is not about race, but about class -- the "Skype-Zoom" class, which includes politicians and those who can make their living through the softer professions of the mind; and the muscular class people, which produce the physical things that allow society to function. America today is approaching Marx's phase three, where class struggle develops, ultimately leading to revolution.
2020-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: Facing Up to the China Threat, by Brian T. Kennedy
Imprimis lecture by Brian T. Kennedy, American Strategy Group
2020-08-25: Epoch Times: The Neglected Virtue of Manliness, by Jeff Minick
Being a man is tough these days. Becoming a man is even tougher, as some young men seem clueless about the meaning of manhood. There is an unbroken pedigree in the Western conception of what it means to be a man -- honor tempered by prudence, ambition tempered by compassion for the suffering and the oppressed, love restrained by delicacy and honor toward the beloved. We don't need to reinvent manliness. We need only to reclaim it.
2020-08-24: ZeroHedge: Thin Veneer of American Civilization Blown Away, by Victor D. Hanson
If we wish to know why America's veneer of civilization was so thin, and this year so easily scraped away, revealing barbarism beneath, look to a generation's architects in the university, the media, sports, corporations, and politics who long ago seeded their cultural IEDs and are now giddy they are at last going off.
2020-08-23: ZeroHedge: Ready For The "No One Could Have Known" Routine?, by Thomas Harrington
... that by shutting down life as we know it to focus obsessively on a virus mostly affecting a relatively small number of people at the end of their lives, we probably would: 1) Cause economic devastation and hence excess deaths; 2) Kill small and even medium-sized businesses; 3) Cause greatly increased 3rd-World misery and death; 4) Destroy what was attractive about urban life; 5) Force state and local governments to cut budgets; 6) Push "smart" monitoring of our lives; 7) Train a generation of snowflakes.
2020-07-xx: Limbaugh: Mail-In Voter Fraud, a Fact Check (it's become rampant)
Welcome to the big Democrat push for a national vote-by-mail system -- to "protect" voter from the coronovirus and imaginary Republican "vote suppression". Democrats are now in unison, demanding that we all vote by mail. They see it as their last hope to win in November.
2020-07-06: Epoch Times: What Parenting Style Works Best?, by Thomas Lickona
In the early 1960s, a University of California, Berkeley, psychologist named Diana Baumrind began a study: How does our parenting style affect our childrens' development of character and competence? Four categories: 1) Disengaged parents - neither demanding nor responsive; 2) Permissive parents - responsive, but undemanding; 3) Authoritarian parents - demanding, but unresponsive; 4) Authoritative parents - both demanding and responsive (the winning category).
2020-06-xx: Limbaugh: Why the Left Hates Homeschooling (no Leftist indoctrination)
With the Covid-19 lockdown threating to keep public schools closed in the fall, the Left worries that more and more parents will chose to homeschool their children, thus avoiding the lies and indoctrination now being spewed in the classroom and threatening the future of the Democrat Party.
2020-06-xx: IMPRIMUS: Four Months of Unprecedented Gov't Malfeasance, by Heather MacDonald
Imprimis lecture by Heather MacDonald, Manhattan Institute
2020-06-22: NAACP: Inequity in How Arlington (and Va) Teach Reading, by Julius D. Spain, Sr
The Arlington NAACP president assails Arlington (and all of Virginia) for poor reading instruction -- without "phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension". He points out that Black and Latino students suffer disproportionately when not taught to read using evidence-based practices based on the science of reading.
2020-06-12: Gatestone Inst: A Brief History Of Antifa: Part I, by Soeren Kern
Antifa's stated long-term objective, both in America and abroad, is to establish a communist world order. In the United States, Antifa's immediate aim is to bring about the demise of the Trump administration. It is highly networked, well-funded and has a global presence. It has a flat organizational structure with dozens and possibly hundreds of local groups.
2020-04-24: FRC: Sex Education and LGBTQ Indoctrination in Public Schools, by Cathy Ruse
Most of us remember what sex education was like when we were in school. Admonitions to be careful, respect others, and save sex for marriage. Things are very different today. In Fairfax County, Virginia, they teach: abstinence until your next steady boyfriend or girlfriend; your right to an abortion; and transgenderism as a healthy sexual identity. In other parts of the country, things are even more perverse.
2020-03-30: Epoch Times: Celebrating the West, by William Gairdner
I have previously written how modern multicultural and globalist policies have been undermining the deep-culture distinctiveness of the West. Now I want to celebrate some of the precious gifts of our civilization, without apology. Because no matter how you look at it, from ancient times until now -- shortcomings, mistakes, and disasters notwithstanding -- our system for producing human flourishing is plainly one of the most successful ever created.
2020-03-17: Epoch Times: When Wuhan Virus Departs, World Will Be Changed, by Michael Walsh
When the Wuhan Virus finally runs its course, a whole lot of things are going to be very, very different. Casualties include: 1) the European Union; 2) Open borders; 3) dependence on China; 4) "Climate change"; 5) Globalism and "free trade"; 6) the IRS and the income tax; 7) college and professional sports; 8) mass transit; 9) animal rights; 10) rule by judges; and most of all 11) the media.
2020-02-xx: Limbaugh: The End of Elections? (if the Left has its way)
I shocked many of you recently by predicting that the left is going to try to abolish elections. It is increasingly obvious that the only thing standing between them and perpetual power -- to which they think they are entitled -- is your ability to vote against them. As such, elections will be in their crosshairs.
2020-02-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Roots of Our Partisan Divide, by Christopher Caldwell
Imprimis lecture by Christopher Caldwell, Senior Fellow, The Claremont Institute and Author, The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.
2020-02-17: Epoch Times: Social Conservatives and Tradition, by Harley Price
Most traditional social or moral arrangements were established in the mists of antiquity, but then only at the end of an earlier, protracted period of human experimentation and adaptation. A traditionalist is one who has the sense to recognize when the experiment has succeeded, and to stop, on the principle that there is nothing more mindless -- because it is insane -- than to go on experimenting for experiment's sake.
2019-12-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Angelo Codevilla, on current politics and culture
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q&A with Angelo Codevilla, author of "America's Ruling Class -- and the Perils of Revolution". The subtitle: "The only serious opposition to this arrogant Ruling Party is coming not from feckless Republicans but from what might be called the Country Party -- and its vision is revolutionary."
2019-12-05: WT: Second Amendment sanctuaries -- editorial
Some on the left are angry, if not apoplectic, that conservatives are turning the tables on them and co-opting one of their own tactics. If liberal "sanctuary" cities, counties and even states defiantly refuse to cooperate fully with federal immigration laws, then their objections should fall on deaf ears when other towns, cities and counties won't go along when liberal governors and Democrat-controlled legislatures enact strict gun-control measures.
2019-11-02: Video: Fairfax County plans to rename 31 schools (4:41)
JEB Stuart down, 31 to go, with names of former slaveholders or Confederate soldiers. On the WOKEing block: TJ, Madison, Fairfax, Langley, Lee, Chantilly, Hayfield, Mount Vernon HS, Lanier MS, and 21 elementary schools with innocuous names like Clermont, Fairview, Gunston, Hybla Valley, Mantua, Oak Hill, Woodlawn, Spring Hill, and Shrevewood.
2019-10-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Steve Bannon, on Trump's China strategy
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q&A with Steve Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, whose storied history as Breitbart executive chairman, Goldman Sachs investment banker, Naval officer, producer and director, and founder of Citizens of the American Republic befits one of the most fascinating characters on the current scene.
2019-10-xx: Limbaugh: Google's Conservative Freezeout: The Chi-Com Model
Google helped the Chi-Coms develop their infamous "social credit" system, which tracks its citizens' every move and flags for denial of good services those that deviate from what it considers "normal". But now YouTube has instituted a social credit system of its own, demonizing a whole host of conservatives, almost dentical to what the Chinese are doing. And PayPal and other high-tech services have also gone malevolent in the U.S.
2019-10-17: 2019 Fairfax County core election issues, by Fred Costello-231
The current Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and wants to change the county from suburban to city. And the School Board is hell-bent on reducing the quality of education to meet the left's continuing 'woke' meme. Are you OK with that?
2019-10-15: The Destruction of Fairfax County, by Fred Costello-230
2019-10-11: DOJ: On Freedom and Morality, address by AG William Barr at Notre Dame
Our Founders never thought the main danger to the republic came from external foes. The central question was whether, over the long haul, we could handle freedom, whether the citizens in such a free society could maintain the moral discipline and virtue necessary for the survival of free institutions. (... and from the Washington Times.)
2019-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution, by Myron Magnet
Imprimis lecture by Myron Magnet, Author, Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution.
2019-08-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with James O'Keefe, on Google election meddling
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q&A with James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, who has just produced videos exposing how Google is using its search algorithms to bias what people are allowed to see on the internet, and influence how they should vote in 2020.
2019-08-xx: IMPRIMUS: Rediscovering the Wisdom in American History, by Wilfred McClay
Imprimis lecture by Wilfred McClay, Author, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story.
2019-08-01: Video: The Truth About 'One Fairfax' School Reboundarying (5:25), by The Rosiaks
"The notion that we would identify a child, or the neighborhood the child lives in, and target them for a boundary change based on the color of their skin or the size of their parent's bank account is a frightening prospect on legality alone. Considering the amount of legal issues this Board has, I don't understand why we're going there. We're going to consider moving or busing children based on their characteristics instead of delivering to them the services that they need where they are. That should be the role of the Board." -- sane Board member Elizabeth Schultz
2019-07-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Rep. Devin Nunes, on the Deep State aftermath
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q&A with Rep. Devin Nunes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee; as Chair while Republicans were in the majority, the California Republican Congressman exposed much of what we now know about the Deep State attempted coup.
2019-07-29: NY Post: Why are so many young men so angry?, by Maureen Callahan
It is anger, stoked to malignancy by a culture in which it's become acceptable to isolate yourself and talk, online only, to people who think and blame and rage like you do. And that way of life has somehow become almost normal.
2019-06-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Danger of the Attacks on the Electoral College, by Trent England
Imprimis lecture by Trent England, Director, Save Our States.
2019-05-19: Epoch Times: 'ThoughtCrime' Is Becoming a Reality, by Joshua Philipp
Cases are emerging in several Western countries where people are getting visits from the police to question them on their political views, and some have been arrested. Condemning state policies has become synonymous with a double standard on "intolerance", which is punishable by the state. This is precisely what George Orwell warned about in his book "1984".
2019-05-19: Epoch Times: Why Today's Journalists 'Sometimes Have To Lie To You', by Brian Cates
In 2008, many media outlets in the political news industry enthusiastically embraced the new "accountability journalism" guidelines. What did this result in? Reporters and editors gave in to to their worst impulses. They began to give free rein to their most naked biases. And it began showing up loudly and clearly in their "news coverage".
2019-04-09: Epoch Times: You Can't Have Socialism Without State Tyranny, by Joshua Philipp
When people talk about socialized health care, free education, and other programs, they often believe these things are meant to care for society. Yet these programs can't exist without a system to enforce it -- and it's in the enforcement of these policies that socialism can't exist without tyranny.
2019-03-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Victor Davis Hanson, author: 'The Case for Trump'
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q with Victor Davis Hanson, gifted writer, brilliant military historian, classicist, scholar of ancient warfare, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and also a California farmer -- who has authored over two dozen books. His latest: The Case for Trump (Basic Books).
2019-03-xx: IMPRIMUS: Politics by Other Means: The Use and Abuse of Scandal, by John Marini
Imprimis lecture by John Marini, Author, Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century.
2019-03-28: Epoch Times: Spygate: Inside Story Behind Plot to Take Down Trump, by Jeff Carlson
The weaponization of the intelligence community and other government agencies by the Obama administration created an environment that allowed for obstruction in the investigation into Hillary Clinton and the relentless pursuit of a manufactured collusion narrative against Trump. A willing and complicit media spread unsubstantiated leaks as facts in an effort to promote the Russia-collusion narrative.
2019-03-14: Epoch Times: Men Women, Embracing Our Differences -- Series of Articles
2019-02-xx: IMPRIMUS: Shall We Defend Our Common History?, by Roger Kimball
Imprimis lecture by Roger Kimball, Editor and Publisher, The New Criterion.
2019-02-22: Epoch Times: Progressivism and the Sensual Satisfaction of Hatred, by M Folkertsma
In the screenplay adaptation of William Bradford Huie's novel, "The Americanization of Emily", Charlie Madison tells Emily: "You know, I never realized what a sensual satisfaction grieving is for women." Following Madison's lead, we might say, "You know, I never realized what a sensual satisfaction hatred is for progressives."
2019-02-16: Epoch Times: The Emasculation of Men Is Doing Society No Favors, by Ryan Moffatt
There was a time in Western society when men were expected to adhere to a set of heroic values -- to protect, provide, and lead. This was the measure of a man. Such attributes gave each man something to aim for. But in this time of moral relativism, there is no North Star for men to chart their course. As a result of decades of gradual emasculation, men no longer know what manhood means.
2019-02-06: FCTA: Of Blackface, Statues, and Virtue Signaling, by David Swink
The Left has perfected the art of "virtue signaling", pointing to alleged evils on the other side while maintaining that their own are as pure as the driven snow. So this week, the worm has turned, and Virginia's Northam/Fairfax/Herring alleged misdeeds are now under the media spotlight.
2019-01-xx: IMPRIMUS: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, by Alex Berenson
Imprimis lecture by Alex Berenson, Author, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.
2018-12-xx: Limbaugh: The Great Divide - Two Visions of America
Where is the compromise between right and wrong? Where is the compromise between good and evil? If I believe in freedom, free market capitalism, traditional morality, where is there any area of compromise with tyranny, socialism, and moral relativism? It doesn't exist. No, we're here to defeat them. We're here to lawfully stand in the way of their agenda succeeding.
2018-12-xx: IMPRIMUS: Do We Need Our Country Anymore?, by Larry P. Arnn
Imprimis lecture by Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College.
2018-12-08: FCTA: Fairfax County Loses Taxpayers to Other Virginia Counties
Taxpayers in Fairfax County, with Average Gross Income (AGI) totaling over $10 billion, have left Fairfax County. Most have moved to neighboring Loudoun and Prince William counties, which have lower tax rates.
2018-12-01: Daily Caller: CA Dems use "Ballot Harvesting" to Nuke GOP, by Scott Morefield
California's new vote-by-mail procedures allow anybody to walk into an elections office and hand over truckloads of vote by mail envelopes with ballots inside, no questions asked, no verified records kept. It amounts to an open invitation to large-scale vote buying, voter coercion, "granny farming", and automated forgery.
2018-11-xx: Limbaugh: GoFundDems, The Left's New Money-Laundering Machine
Making money has long been a legal problem for the left. So many payoffs to distribute, so little time. Not to mention all the inconvenient banking reporting regulations and record-keeping rules. It's been a real pain in the neck to move the vast sums needed to keep the left's troops supplied. Enter mankind's most efficient cash-transport in history: the internet.
2018-11-27: WT: How California effectively legalizes voter fraud, by Shawn Steel
Reliably Republican Orange County lost all seven of its congressional seats to Democrats during the 2018 midterms. How could this happen? Democrats know it's easier to erode voter integrity laws than to stuff ballot boxes. California Democrats have systematically undermined California's already-weak voter protection laws to guarantee one-party rule.
2018-11-13: CER: Parent Power! Index - National Overview -- Va #35
2018-10-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Sidney Powell, author of "Licensed to Lie"
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q&A with Sidney Powell, who served in the DOJ for ten years as Assistant U.S. Attorney, who witnessed firsthand the rampant prosecutorial corruption at DOJ from Enron to Mueller, and who was moved to relate what she experienced in her 2014 book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice.
2018-10-xx: IMPRIMUS: America's Cold Civil War, by Charles R. Kesler
Imprimis lecture by Charles R. Kesler, Editor of Claremont Review of Books.
2018-10-23: Epoch Times: Chinese Subversion of U.S. Deep and Far Reaching, by Joshua Philipp
For decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been subverting the United States by infiltrating, undermining, and influencing its key institutions -- American businesses, movie studios, universities, think tanks, scholars, journalists, and local, state, and federal officials. Here we take a look at some examples of the problem.
2018-09-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Gregg Jarrett, author of "The Russia Hoax"
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q&A with Gregg Jarrett, Fox News analyst, about his new investigative book, The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.
2018-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: A Short History of American Medical Insurance, by John Steele Gordon
Imprimis lecture by John Steele Gordon, author of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power.
2018-08-xx: IMPRIMUS: Does Diversity Really Unite Us?, by Edward J. Erler
Imprimis lecture by Edward J. Erler, author of The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration.
2018-08-07: JWR: The Matrix at 20, by Cal Thomas
"The Matrix" nearly 20 years ago warn of a future in which the power and worth of the individual is subsumed into one giant interconnected world run by a tiny elite, who rob individuals of their liberty and ability to think freely. Today, technology is replacing thought and relationships. Google, Facebook, Amazon and other tech giants want access to every facet of our identities and influence over every corner of our decision-making.
2018-07-30: Epoch Times: D'Souza's "Death of a Nation" Shows Dem 'Plantation', by J. Philipp
Dinesh D'Souza, a filmmaker and author of several New York Times bestsellers, has debunked powerful political myths still alive in our culture. In his upcoming film and book, "Death of a Nation," D'Souza delves into another piece of history, showing that the "plantation" system of the early Democratic Party lives on in systems of heavy taxation, government dependence, and identity politics.
2018-06-28: Epoch Times: "#WalkAway" Videos Highlight Democrats Leaving Party, by Celia Farber
#WalkAway videos have gone viral in late June 2018. A sample: "Once upon a time, I was a liberal. Well, to be honest, less than a year ago, I was still a liberal. I reject a system which allows an ambitious, misinformed and dogmatic mob to suppress free speech, create false narratives, and apathetically steamroll over the truth. I reject hate."
2018-06-22: Newsweek: Why Millennials are Falling Behind, by Ben Shapiro
According to a British study, millennials lack appropriate skills and qualifications, personal connections, financial and practical support, and emotional support. This is a social and cultural problem. Lack of family and support structures have led to the destruction of the social fabric necessary to undergirding a stronger civil society. Lack of cultural focus on meritocracy and effort have led to a decline in performance, and thus in health.
2018-06-17: WT: The despair of Anthony Bourdain, by Everett Piper
Lewis, Chesterton, and Colson all warned of this brave, new world where material comforts are all that matter; a world where claims of moral truth are considered suspect; a world where we should "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die". Little is left for us at the end of days but to join with Anthony Bourdain and others and conclude, "suicide is painless".
2018-04-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Negative Impact of the #MeToo Movement, by Heather MacDonald
Imprimis lecture by Heather MacDonald, Manhattan Institute
2018-04-05: Epoch Times: The Unseen War on Your Mind, by Joshua Philipp
Are our thoughts really our own? What concepts shape them? Where do these concepts come from? Today, influencing the human psyche has been broken down into a science, and many groups -- including governments, businesses, special interest groups, and subversive movements -- are using carefully crafted strategies designed to alter perceptions in order to further their goals. Through their collective impact, an unseen war is being waged on the mind of each person. To see through this narrative illusion, it's imperative to understand the tools in play.
2018-03-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q&A with James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas and author of American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News, and whose undercover reporting has shown the light of truth on leftist organizations' slimy secrets.
2018-02-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Politicization of the FBI, by Joseph E. diGenova
Imprimis lecture by Joseph E. diGenova, Former U.S. Attorney
2018-02-13: The Stream: Sex Ed and Stalinism at the Fx Co School Board, by Austin Ruse
Fairfax leftists put transgender ideology into schools a full year before Barack Obama's Department of Education mandated it for the rest of the schools in the country. Last year the Trump administration cancelled the mandate, though Fairfax County is clinging onto it, with over 80 hours of sex-education for these poor kids -- some of it is straight-up pornography.
2018-01-xx: Limbaugh: Morality is NOT determined by Individual Choice
The Left mocked "family values" for fifty years and now are stunned to discover brutes among them. They tore down every standard of decency and now they're dismayed to see they're drowning in sewage. They've spent decades sneering at the traditions and institutions that served as societal guardrails and now they're astonished they've gone off a cliff.
2017-12-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Edward Klein, on The Plot to Destroy Trump
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q with Edward Klein, a stellar old-school journalist and author of All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump, in which he describes in detail the plot and who the players are in the "Resistance" against the Trump Presidency.
2017-12-17: FCTA: One Fairfax - Its Illegitimacy and Unanswered Questions, by Laura Miller
On Nov 20 and 21, 2017, Fairfax County Supervisors and the School Board jointly approved the 'One Fairfax' resolution, to ensure that all of our public community chest, resources and accommodations will be spent or utilized to achieve RACIAL and SOCIAL EQUITY outcomes in income, grades, and crime -- a Leftist globalist agenda taken from 'UN Agenda 2020/30'. Citizens should be outraged!
2017-11-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Problem of Identity Politics and Its Solution, by Matthew Continetti
Imprimis lecture by Matthew Continetti, Editor-in-Chief for the Washington Free Beacon
2017-11-21: FxCo: 'One Fairfax', the county's new "Social and Racial Equity" policy
Fairfax County's new policy formally enshrines the Democrat Party's Alinskyite platform of class warfare, identity politics, and victimhood. So renaming schools and roads, changing bathroom and sex education policies, and any other nonsense "for the children" can now be given umbrella coverage.
2017-11-17: WaPo: Life in North Korea under Kim Jong Un, by Anna Fifield
In six months of interviews in South Korea and Thailand, Anna Fifield, the Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, talked with more than 25 North Koreans from different walks of life who lived in Kim Jong-un's North Korea and managed to escape.
2017-10-xx: Limbaugh: The Left's hateful view of America vs Reality
America is under attack from within, largely financed by people like George Soros and others. They make common cause with Americans whose objective is to take the nation down, hasten our decline. To defend America, it is necessary to know our history. The purpose of the United States of America and its proud legacy must be understood to be protected. Which is why unmooring us from our own history is crucial for the Left to succeed.
2017-10-17: The Subversionist: The New 95 [Theses], by Mike Gibson of Peter Thiel's 1517 Fund
Martin Luther nailed his theses to a church door 500 years ago on October 31st. With your help, we are going to nail ours -- ok, fine -- tape ours to the doors of universities and schools across the country to mark the occasion.
2017-09-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Dinesh D'Souza, on Nazi roots of the American Left
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q with Dinesh D'Souza, conservative writer and filmmaker, author of The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left -- especially timely in the wake of what happened in Charlottesville.
2017-09-30: Epoch Times: Communism's (and Democrats') Secret Tool, by Joshua Philipp
To understand why communism still lingers, we need to understand its most fundamental tool for creating violent revolution -- convincing people to turn against one another -- and how it uses this tool to manufacture political issues. This then gives its followers the ability to gradually seize control. This tool is the communist dialectic, known as dialectical materialism.
2017-08-18: Epoch Times: Communist Origins of the 'Antifa' Extremist Group, by Joshua Philipp
The extremist anarchist-communist group Antifa has been in the headlines because of recent violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. But the label of "fascism" as pushed by Antifa often does not refer to actual fascism, but is merely a label assigned to "capitalism". This has been going on since 1922, when the Soviets first formed this organization.
2017-08-09: Philly Inquirer: Let's celebrate the culture of the 1950s, by Wax & Alexander
Today, too few Americans are qualified for jobs, many college students lack basic skills, high school students rank low academically, and almost half of all children are born out of wedlock. These and other maladies result from the breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture of the 1950's.
2017-07-18: Bull Elephant: The Death of Consequences, by Michael Giere
We are witnessing the death of consequences for any catastrophe, illegality, culpability or just plain idiocy. Only intentions, not results, matter. We're reaping what we have sown, of course. This process has been underway for fifty years, but has picked up to a furious pace.
2017-06-xx: IMPRIMUS: 2016 Election and Demise of Journalistic Standards, by Michael Goodwin
Imprimis lecture by Michael Goodwin, chief political columnist for The New York Post
2017-06-14: Daily Caller: A Code Of Ethics For K-12 Educators, by David Horowitz, Mark Tapson
Since the '60s, American colleges and universities have been fundamentally transformed from institutions of higher learning to mills of political indoctrination. Now through the leftwing schools of education, the tentacles of that "social justice" indoctrination now latch onto youthful minds in secondary schools beginning in kindergarten. Today's young college arrivals are shoddily educated but already steeped in leftwing propaganda.
2017-04-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Left's War on Free Speech, by Kimberley Strassel
Imprimis lecture by Kimberley Strassel, author of The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech
2017-04-06: WT: The United States in World War I -- 100 Years Later
World War I is central to American and world history, but few Americans are aware of its importance. These 26 articles, presented by the U.S. WWI Centennial Commission, are thus offered to the curious reader.
2017-03-27: Frontpage Mag: The Civil War [with the Left] is Here, by Daniel Greenfield
A civil war has begun. This civil war is very different than the last one. There are no cannons or cavalry charges. The left doesn't want to secede. It wants to rule. Political conflicts become civil wars when one side refuses to accept the existing authority. The left has rejected all forms of authority that it doesn't control.
2017-01-xx: Limbaugh: My conversation with Tucker Carlson
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a Q with Tucker Carlson, longtime conservative commentator, cofounder of The Daily Caller, and host of the hot new show "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on the Fox News channel.
2017-01-30: FCPS has Excellent Schools ... for a few, by Arthur Purves at FCPS hearing
2017-01-13: CNS News: Political Correctness, a Tool of Liberal Coercion, by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Political correctness is a deliberate tool used by the Left to intimidate conservatives and people of faith into silence, with the goal of making our classic and time-tested opinions illegitimate. It is the liberal version of Islamic blasphemy laws, ruthlessly excising anyone who questions or strays from the leftwing cultural and social dogmas. It is the most un-American development in our lifetime.
2017-01-04: Downsizing Fed Govt: History and Costs of Urban Transit, by Randal O'Toole
American taxpayers can no longer afford costly and inefficient government transit systems, particularly rail transit systems. Federal subsidies ought to be eliminated and local governments should open transit to private and entrepreneurial solutions to relieving congestion.
2016-xx-xx: FCTA: U.S. Congressional Contacts, Key Votes: Incl email addresses (if available)
2016-12-xx: IMPRIMUS: A More American Conservatism, by Larry P. Arnn
Imprimis lecture by Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College.
2016-11-22: The Federalist: Meet the Intolerant Vulgarians of the Dirtbag Left
The spasms of outrage and protest that have rocked the country since Donald Trump's election have revealed what should have been plain to see for a long time: progressives are through debating; they are interested only in enforcing their views. They believe they have won the culture wars, that there is no room left for dissent.
2016-10-xx: IMPRIMUS: Sovereignty vs "Who We Are As a People", by Edward J. Erler
Imprimis lecture by Edward J. Erler, co-author of The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration.
2016-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: Restoring America's Economic Mobility, by Frank Buckley
Imprimis lecture by Frank Buckley, author of The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America.
2016-09-27: Claremont: After the Republic, by Angelo M. Codevilla
The United States of America was great because of a whole bunch of things that now are gone. We have stepped over the threshold of a revolution. It is difficult to imagine how we might step back, and futile to speculate where it will end. Our ruling class's malfeasance, combined with insult, brought it about.
2016-09-12: WT: The President and the Constitution -- Special Report, 23 articles
Subtitle: "How citizens, congress, the courts and the media influence presidential power". -- A Special Report by the Washington Times Advocacy Department and the National Constitutional Literacy Campaign.
2016-09-05: Claremont: The Flight 93 Election, by Publius Decius Mus
2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You -- or the leader of your party -- may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees. Except one: if you don't try, death is certain.
2016-08-28: FCTA: Why NOT to vote 3rd-party in the U.S., by David Swink
Unlike in parliamentary systems, third party candidates in the United States don't play well in our two-party system of government -- often acting as spoilers and flipping the general election to the consternation of those same voters silly enough to effectively promote their last choice to public office.
2016-06-xx: IMPRIMUS: Freedom and Obligation -- 2016 Commencement Address, by Clarence Thomas
Imprimis lecture by Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court.
2016-05-xx: Limbaugh: The Left - World's Most Destructive Force
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush describes how the cultural threads of the Left -- the global tentacles of criminal communism, the dark moneyed designs of the George Soros left, and aggressive militant Islam -- have conjoined now, and together are working to thwart American liberty.
2016-05-12: TIME: Saving Capitalism, by Rana Foroohar
Over the past four decades, the rules that govern the United States' free-market system have been warped. That, Rana Foroohar, argues in her new book, Makers and Takers, seriously imperils every American's economic future. She explains how we got here and how to fix it.
2016-05-12: Annandale Blog: Stop the 'one-size-fits-all' zoning proposal, by Terry Maynard
In the next few months, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors plans to approve a "one-size-fits-all" zoning ordinance amendment that would guide redevelopment throughout the urbanizing areas of the county for decades. And with the county's new "Fairfax Forward" Comprehensive Plan amendment process, the barriers to increasing an area or project plan's density are virtually non-existent.
2016-04-xx: Limbaugh: The Democrat KKK
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush notes that while Democrats accuse Republicans of racism, bigotry, resurrecting Jim Crow, and embracing the Ku Klux Klan, it is the Democrats who have a long history of these practices. Numerous quotes are provided along with context.
2016-03-31: WT: Identifying the enemy - Islam itself, by James A. Lyons
The late political scientist, Samuel Huntington, pointed out that Islam is totally incompatible with Western culture and traditions. They can never coexist. Islam is at war with the West. It is a clash of civilizations.
2016-03-10: WT: Tracing the roots of Islamic jihad, by James A. Lyons
The Islamic jihad against Christendom started more than four and a half centuries before anyone had even heard of a Crusade. The crusaders forced jihad into remission for a brief period from around 1100 to 1350, after which it resumed its full assault.
2016-02-xx: IMPRIMUS: Islam -- Facts or Dreams?, by Andrew C. McCarthy
Imprimis lecture by Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Institute.
2016-01-26: NAS: The Architecture of Intellectual Freedom, by Peter Wood
In response to recent broad-based campus situations: We rightly expect higher education to address four things: vocation, culture, truth, and character. The last of these four may seem the least definite, but it is surely the foundation of the other three. We seek a form of education that teaches young men and women how to be free.
2015-xx-xx: FCTA: U.S. Sanctuary Cities: Incl leaders, party affiliation (if available)
2015-12-xx: IMPRIMUS: Property Rights and Religious Liberty, by Larry P. Arnn
Imprimis lecture by Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College.
2015-12-20: FCTA: The hidden cost of Medicaid "expansion", by Bill Peabody Lou Dileonardo
Medicaid expansion funding is best described as the gift of a baby elephant. If you accept it, you must feed it, and as it grows it will eat more and more.
2015-11-28: JWR: Battling the modern American administrative state, by George Will
As the administrative state distorts the United States' constitutional architecture, Clarence Thomas becomes America's indispensable constitutionalist. Now in his 25th year on the Supreme Court, he is urging the judicial branch to limit the legislative branch's practice of delegating its power to the executive branch.
2015-11-25: AMAC: Do You Know Saul Alinsky?, by Ellen Cora
Alinsky's aim for community organizers is to bait the opposition. "The enemy, properly goaded and guided into reacting, will be your major strength," Alinsky penned. He believed in creating unrest by searching out controversial issues and convincing people they could actually effect change. Consider 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Income Inequality' as two examples.
2015-11-02: Fx Free Citizen: Election Office can't prevent absentee ballot voter ID fraud
An election officer discovers that the Fairfax County Election office has no way of negating the fraudulent absentee ballot. Due to the way absentee ballots are processed, almost any voter who is willing to lie about sending in an absentee ballot and has enough sense to not use his/her normal signature can vote twice.
2015-10-18: Election Issues in Fairfax County, presentation by Fred Costello
2015-10-15: WT: Liberals can't see what's coming, by L. Todd Wood
Every 30-40 years, riding some type of generational learning curve, the United States must suffer through a spasm of socialist lunacy and suffer the consequences. But weakening our national defense, stealing from the other guy, taking all we can until the lights go out, just doesn't work. At the end of the day, reality sinks in for enough people to vote the communist-lites out of power.
2015-08-28: AMAC: New AP Test Seeks to Rewrite History for Political Gain, by John Grimaldi
The previous AP U.S. History course featured a strong insistence on content, i.e., on the students' acquisition of extensive factual knowledge of American history. The new 2014 framework repudiates that earlier approach, centralizes control, deemphasizes content, and seeks to "internationalize" the nation's past. (Read related IMPRIMUS post.)
2015-08-05: WT: 1965, the start of uncontrolled immigration, by Ian deSilva
The 1965 revision of immigration law completely transformed U.S. immigration policy. In the 1960s, 1.1 million European immigrants were admitted, along with 1.6 million from elsewhere. In the 1970s, after LBJ's 'reforms', the latter groups doubled to 3.2 million, while European immigration was suppressed to 826,000. And it no longer mattered if they assimilated or spoke English.
2015-07-xx: IMPRIMUS: History, American Democracy, and the AP Test Controversy, by W. McClay
Imprimis lecture by Wilfred M. McClay, University of Oklahoma.
2015-07-12: WT: 17th Amendment moved power from states to Washington, by John S Baker
The modern Administrative State is the progeny of the 17th Amendment, which stripped state legislatures of control over their U.S. senators, a control based on the former system of state legislatures electing senators. Previously, a House-passed bill proposing to nationalize some issue could be blocked by state-protecting Senators.
2015-04-xx: Swiss America: The Biggest Bank Heist In History, by Craig Smith, Lowell Ponte
"Virtually zero percent interest rates are to long-term economic policy what junk food is to nutrition -- it tastes great going down, but later come horrible results....[that] pose dangers for all of us.... ZIRP [is]...how the Fed gave the U.S. Financial Diabetes." -- Gregory Bresiger, Business Journalist
2015-03-xx: IMPRIMUS: Frank Capra's America and Ours, by John Marini
Imprimis lecture by John Marini, professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.
2015-03-30: Breitbart: Ted Kennedy's Real Legacy: 50 Years of Ruinous Immigration Law
Passage of Ted Kennedy's Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 marked a fundamental change in America's immigration policy. Rather than serving the interests of Americans and national unity by setting limits on immigration, the act put "family unification" as the top priority, serving the interests of foreigners first.
2015-03-20: Natural News: MIT doctor links Glyphosate herbicide (Roundup) to Autism spike
Dr. Stephanie Seneff from MIT finds a perfect correlation between use of Roundup in food production and the rise in autism -- from 1 in 10,000 in 1970, to 1 in 68 today, and 50% by 2025. "The glyphosate is being soaked up by the plants and getting into the food system, and the U.S. government is doing very little monitoring to even see if that's true." (Related article.)
2015-01-28: FCTA: FCPS Budgets 2000 to 2016 -- compiled by FCTA's Fred Costello
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) budget data for FY2000 through FY2015, as shown graphically, with summary data, and in item-by-item detail.
2014-12-22: TIME: Medicine Gets Personal Again with Direct Primary Care, by David Von Drehle
Primary care and specialized care have two very different missions, and need different business models. After all, car insurance doesn't cover oil changes, and homeowners' insurance doesn't cover house paint. So why should insurance pay for your annual checkup or your kid's strep swab?
2014-12-11: WT: The Bible's Influence -- 25 articles sponsored by the Bible Literacy Project
Regardless of one's beliefs, no one can deny the influence of this one book on human history nor dismiss its value either as literature or as a guide to a better world.
2014-11-xx: IMPRIMUS: Effects of Obamacare on Economic Productivity, by Casey Mulligan
Imprimis lecture by Casey Mulligan, professor of economics at the University of Chicago
2014-10-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Case Against Liberal Compassion, by William Voegeli
Imprimis lecture by William Voegeli, Senior Editor, Claremont Review of Books
2014-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: The History and Danger of Administrative Law, by Philip Hamburger
Imprimis lecture by Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law School
2014-09-24: FCTA calculates Obamacare costs in Virginia, using Kaiser's Subsidy Calculator
Presented are the latest calculations of Obamacare costs, using the Kaiser Family Foundation's easy-to-use form. Anyone can go to the free anonymous calculator without entering their name, social security number or address. It takes only five minutes.
2014-09-02: Islam Times: To Understand ISIS, Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's internal discord and tensions over ISIS can only be understood by grasping the inherent (and persisting) duality that lies at the core of the Kingdom's doctrinal makeup and its historical origins. One dominant strand to the Saudi identity pertains directly to Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (the founder of Wahhabism), and the use to which his radical, exclusionist puritanism was put by Ibn Saud.
2014-09-02: Video: Former Muslim describes the true face of Islam (8:35)
Brother Rachid addresses President Obama about ISIL and Islam; he explains to him how ISIL is imitating the prophet Muhammad in every detail they do. ISIL represents Islam.
2014-07-07: Epoch Times: Money for Nothing, by Valentin Schmid
The basic problem with the creation of currency out of nothing [credit creation by banks] is that somebody gets that currency initially. That money percolates down through the economy and the market wakes up and says "Wait a minute, there's more money now", and this affects prices. Workers and savers get the new money last, so mostly they are paying for the banks' privilege to create money.
2014-06-28: Epoch Times: Is the Fed Unconstitutional?, by Valentin Schmid
Under the Constitution, Congress is supposed to oversee the coinage -- in gold or silver form. The Articles of Confederation had given Congress the power to borrow money and "emit bills". This power was struck from the Constitution, so it logically follows that the power isn't there. There is no power to create paper currency of the debt-based variety in Congress.
2014-06-21: TIME: Ending the War on Fat, by Bryan Walsh
Thirty years of low-fat dogma has produced a nation fatter and sicker than ever, and the "science" supporting the dogma wasn't science at all. (Sounds similar to the global warming argument.)
2014-05-xx: IMPRIMUS: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass, by Anthony Daniels
Imprimis lecture by Anthony Daniels, Writer and Doctor
2014-01-xx: Limbaugh: The "Common Core" Debacle
In his Limbaugh Letter, Rush quotes from numerous publications that have picked out deficiencies in the "Common Core" school curriculum being pushed in many states. (Virginia, fortunately, has chosen not to follow these perverse guidelines.)
2013-12-09: Bob Lonsberry: Two Americas -- Essay
The Democrats are right, there are two Americas. The America that works, and the America that doesn't. The America that contributes, and the America that doesn't. It's not the haves and the have nots, it's the dos and the don'ts. Some people do their duty as Americans, to obey the law and support themselves and contribute to society, and others don't. That's the divide in America.
2013-10-xx: IMPRIMUS: Budget Battles and Growth of the Administrative State, by John Marini
Imprimis lecture by John Marini, Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Hillsdale College
2013-10-14: Hannah Arendt on How Bureaucracy Fuels Violence, by Maria Popova
In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. It is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act -- tyranny without a tyrant. It is this state of affairs which is among the most potent causes for the current world-wide rebellious unrest.
2013-04-09: Pithocrates.com: Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate Recessions 1950-Present
Looking at the civilian labor force may be a better indicator of the health of the economy. Or better yet, the civilian labor force participation rate (CLFPR). Which is basically the percent of those who can work that are working. So let's do that. Starting with the Fifties. ...
2013-02-xx: IMPRIMUS: Calvin Coolidge and the Moral Case for Economy, by Amity Shlaes
Imprimis lecture by Amity Shlaes, Author, Coolidge
2013-02-20: TIME: Bitter Pill - Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us, by Steven Brill
Steven Brill, in this article for TIME Magazine, brings up some good points about current health care in the U.S., including the "chargemaster" maintained by every hospital but not available for viewing by patients. You may or may not agree with Brill's recommended solutions.
2012-xx-xx: Virginia Voting Precincts: Info includes districting, population, and lat/long
2012-12-12: Video-404: The Great Global Warming Swindle (76 min, but Google took down)
This is the authoritative documentary of the climate change issue, produced in Britain several years ago, and is required viewing in those public schools that choose to air Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". It examines the hard science and the political history of the Global Warming movement.
2012-06-29: davidmhart.com: The Illustrated Road to Serfdom -- as Cartoons
This condensed illustrated version of Friedrich A. Hayek's 1944 classic The Road to Serfdom was published in Look magazine in February 1945. The depiction of the "planners" with Nazi arm bands and jack boots could easily be updated to reflect the business suits worn by the current generation of planners and regulators.
2011-11-18: Waco Tribune: "Put Me In Charge ...", by (21-year old female)
... "AND While you are on Gov't subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov't welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job."
2011-01-24: Examiner: Who Controls the Democratic Party? -- Lawyers, Unions, Greens, Insiders
This Examiner Special Report is about the plain truth of who owns the Democrats. Trial lawyers and three other special interests -- Big Labor union leaders, Big Green environmentalists, and Big Insiders with billions of dollars in personal wealth and foundation grants -- together essentially dictate what Democrats can and cannot support on many key public policy issues.
2010-12-20: HealthMatters: Health Care Systems - Four Basic Models
The nations of the world have coalesced around four approaches to delivering health care: 1) Beveridge Model (England), 2) Bismarck Model (Germany), 3) National Health Insurance Model (Canada), and 4) Out-of-Pocket Model (3rd World). The U.S. has a bit of all four: VA (Beveridge), employer or Obamacare (Bismarck), Medicare (NHI), and the uninsured (Out-of-Pocket).
2008-07-14: Digital Journal: AP Endorses 'Accountability Journalism', by Susan Duclos
The journalistic ethics of old do not apply to the new guidelines over at the Associated Press. The new ethics are called "accountability journalism", and the new bureau chief, Ron Fournier, believes that the conventional press model, where both sides of an argument are entitled to equal weight, is exactly what journalists need to avoid.
2003-10-03: Snopes: How to Destroy America, by former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm
At an immigration-overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States.
1985-09-xx: IMPRIMUS: Who Killed Excellence?, by Samuel Blumenfeld
There has been much talk of a crisis in education and much speculation as to what or who is to blame for the mediocrity in our schools. Professor Samuel Blumenfeld offers a clear and convincing explanation of how the goals of the professional educator have changed and have thus adversely affected the quality and content of education.
1964-10-27: Video: "A Time for Choosing", by Ronald Reagan (29:32); read the full text
As Michael Barone describes: 50 years ago, a movie actor and television host delivered a 30-minute speech on primetime national television in support of the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater. Few if any viewers realized it, but they were watching a future president of the United States.
1957-xx-xx: Ayn Rand: Francisco's Money Speech
"So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them... Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"
1955-03-14: TIME: Why Johnny Can't Read -- book review
When Bestselling Author Rudolf Flesch (The Art of Plain Talk) offered to give a friend's twelve-year-old son some "remedial reading," Flesch discovered that the boy was not slow or maladjusted; he had merely been "exposed to an ordinary American school." ... Why is the U.S. so far behind? Says Flesch: "We have decided to forget that we write with letters, and [instead] learn to read English as if it were Chinese."
1939-xx-xx: Nasty, Brutish and Short?, a summary version of Dr Weston A Price's famous work.
1850-xx-xx: The Law -- Frederic Bastiat analyzes government proclivities versus human nature
In 1850, faced with a tide of sentiment toward socialism, French legislator Frederic Bastiat confronted the left's claims of government superiority with a timeless critique, The Law, perhaps the most penetrating analysis of human nature after the Bible, C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, and Shakespeare.
.Not Dated: Skeptics Annotated Bible... Quran... Book of Mormon -- Accurate original material
This website points supposed errors, contradictions, and discrepancies -- divided into the following categories: injustice, absurdity, cruelty and violence, intolerance, contradictions, family values, women, good stuff, science and history, prophecy, sex, language, interpretation, and homosexuality. You may not agree with their comments, but their original material is accurate.