I have long held that American children are academically dumb and getting dumber, and I’ve held that the reasons for same are the intrusion of the federal government into our education system, illiterate teachers full of elaborate teaching methods that do not work, and parents. Parents do not like to hear that their children aren’t [...]
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Babies Are Unable To Care For Themselves
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) is a highly regarded Lebanese mystic and a Maronite Catholic whose profound writings and insights centered around Christianity and a belief there was a seamless existence between all faiths. One of his books, The Prophet, has not been out of publication since its 1923 release and has now been translated into nearly [...]
Can’t afford it? – blame yourself
Far too many Americans still do not understand that there is something called the laws of unintended consequences. They only know that they want the government to do whatever is specific to their particular personal interests. I’m not saying that elected politicians gather around the fireplace and plot what they can do to make people [...]
Obama and Boehner know there’s one born every minute
Michael Cassius McDonald originated the saying, “there’s a sucker born every minute.” And, it was W.C. Fields, who coined the immortal line, “Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump.” And it was congress w/ a complicit press and a white house that better resembles and parallels a handpicked hybrid of [...]
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