MO Gov Parson gave a speech to MO education administrators recently, which has me feeling a tad ranty. In it, he spoke glowingly of his friend ‘Margie’, director of DESE (MO Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education), and encouraged MO’s poor public s…
Supporters of ‘Critical Thinking’ are well aware that their programs have not delivered what the public considers to be ‘successful stats’.
An academic supporter of ‘Critical Thinking’, Jonathan Haber, noted back in 2020 in his article for “Inside Hi…
It’s that time of year again, to speak truth to the power-mad folk who fail to give any thought to the discordant noise of their virtue signaling, while prattling on about wanting to change ‘Columbus Day’, to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ or ‘Heritage Ameri…
The problem with ‘Critical Thinking’ is not just with the anti-realist theorists who developed it, or the amoral (at best) theories they developed it with (see previous posts), or that it’s somehow ‘Good in theory but not in practice’, the problem is t…
Today is the 239th birthday of the United States Constitution. Peruse it or lose it… and the liberty it was written to preserve.
What was signed as completed upon this day, two hundred and thirty-nine years ago, September 17th, 1787, by thirty-nine …
Last year, the day before 9/11, Charlie Kirk was murdered by a transtifa enthusiast. Today, 25 years after September 11, 2001, the mayor of New York City is a communist muslim. Such indicators of what’s been called a Red-Green Alliance, add still more…
Dana Loesch reported on some news that was not welcome:
“…the Vice-President is shopping a draft plan to pay $9,000 per child of taxpayer dollars to families of married parents where the wife stays home…”
These people aren’t simply pushing economi…
If, as I contend, ‘Critical Thinking’ is and always has been a critical threat to sound reasoning (it has) – why did (do) otherwise intelligent people adopt and promote it? That’s partly due to what we saw in the previous post, where its deceptive c…
I’ve had enough experience over the years with the issue of criticizing ‘Critical Thinking’, to know that many of you are unlikely to become convinced anytime soon that ‘Critical Thinking’ is the problem which I understand it to be. But I’m less inte…
Do you understand The Grammar of Liberty?
In the previous two posts (here and here) I noted how much we’ve lost with those stories and histories of The West that we’re no longer learning from today. And whether it’s the case that we’re only not readi…
Three quick points before getting to my annual reposting of Calvin Coolidge’s speech on the “Inspiration of our Declaration of Independence”, and to the Declaration of Independence itself, on its 250th Anniversary. The first point, which I went into a …
As seen in the previous post, seeking after obvious facts and answers can ‘somehow’ put you at odds with understanding what is real and true. But how? As with most of our problems today, they have less to do with what we do, than with what we no longer…
Rene Descartes led The West into its first Critical Turn in thinking: “masked I advance”:
I began this series of posts on ‘The Critical Insurrection’ five years ago (here, and here), by noting that despite the heated talk of insurrection at the ti…
Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, is a day set aside to remember and honor those who have died in the armed forces of the United States of America. If we are to honor and memorialize those who gave their lives, can we do so properly without being m…
Before starting in on a new series of posts, there’s a certifiable wacademic professor at a public state university local college, that has presented me with a useful illustration of the pro-regressive mind and the failures of the practice of ‘Critical…
Because it seems as if ‘The shot heard ’round the world’ needs to be heard again, another reposting: The shot wasn’t heard around the world to protect an adolescent desire to do whatever you please, it was heard and echoed on down through the ages…