Public Education

Given the opportunity to wreak havoc on our whole society, power-mad Democratic governors, mayors and various politicos are using the current “crisis” to show what life would be like in a permanently Orwellian America…and what life has been like in such Progressive paradises as the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and China. Surfers...
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The siren song of “Democratic Socialism” is repeatedly accompanied by the ignorant notion that “It Works!” in the reputed earthly paradises of Scandinavia. An honest examination and sober testimony from those who live it say otherwise. See for yourself in Johan Norberg’s documentary on his native Sweden…and learn some fascinating history including the name...
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UPDATE 2/11/20: Thank the Lord Rush Limbaugh’s on! ORIGINAL POST 2/9/20:  A great leader, like a great parent, doesn’t lead so much as instruct others how to take the reins for themselves. This is the essence of the Conservative worldview: independence, autonomy, responsibility, initiative, take pride in and defend what is yours, live and...
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A recent first (and last) jaunt to Hawaii has revealed to these jaded eyes NOT the romantic, sensual paradise its name and reputation have always evoked, but rather a run-down welfare state. The more prosperous housing developments are cheap-looking, like decaying neighborhoods from the 1950s, yet priced at the high 6 figures, some tacky...
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It’s good, great, stunningly wonderful news for Great Britain, and delivering it is wild & wooly messenger Boris Johnson, now officially the British Donald Trump to the rescue. Three cheers for those sane & sensible Brits, tired of being “patronized and ridiculed,” who have just elected him and rejected the setting sun of a...
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In a very long, wide-ranging conversation, New York Jewish Liberal David Samuels and California Catholic Conservative Angelo Codevilla engage in the ultimate bull session about American politics and the perks & perils of American power. Through it all runs Codevilla’s recurring (and convincing) worldview of an insatiably power-hungry Elite that exists solely to control...
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Breathes there a Conservative who has not had to deal with the hatred and irrationality of a Leftist friend, neighbor or relative when confronted with the choice of individual liberty vs. one-size-fits-all, Big Gov collectivism? So entrenched are millions in the dark hoaxes of Global Warming (planet extinction) and Identity Politics (permanent civil war)...
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As the Dem Party 2020 wannabes  continue to scramble over one another for the most insane, impossible $MultiTrillion promises to the masses, one can only wonder what has happened to the electorate they’re wooing: Green New Deals that outlaw the fossil fuel energy that runs our modern world;  Universal Guaranteed Income/weekly checks from Uncle...
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Guilt-free, proud Americans (known in some parts as “conservatives”) gratefully celebrate the myriad benefits that come our way daily: work, money, property, security, comfort, free association, mobility, choices, choices, choices.  Those bitter scolds on the Left feel free to deplore and bash this very same country and its bounty while still taking full advantage...
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A Liberal friend once responded to this writer’s citing historical evidence of her chosen (Leftist) faith’s failure by saying, “Don’t give me that ‘History tells us’ crap.” In short: “Please, no facts. No real, concrete consequences of bad ideas. Let me make it all up to fit my world view.” Or, to quote the...
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