This month’s top ten discussion topics

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Democracy in peril

Democracy in peril

In the 1970’s Daniel Ortega was a Marxist/Leninist freedom fighter and revolutionary backed by Castro in Cuba and Russia. In 1984 he was democratically elected as president of Nicaragua. Today he is the worst kind of political dictator. Everyone who has spoken out...

Anti-Vaccine Knuckleheads

Anti-Vaccine Knuckleheads

Stupidity about the pros and cons (almost exclusively false cons) about vaccinations has been rampant on an adjacent forum. Largely I have ignored these scurrilous anti-vaxxers as too ridiculous to waste my time on; but let’s face it, that kind of false narrative is...

The Heemeyer Effect

The Heemeyer Effect

“On June 18, 1990, James Edward Pough walked into the GMAC auto loan office in Jacksonville, Florida and started shooting. The GMAC Mass Shooting was the worst in Florida history until the Pulse Nightclub Shooting in 2016.” From the back cover of Repossessions: Mass...

The Presidential Election 2048

The Presidential Election 2048

The Presidential Election of 2048 will be here before we know it. Let’s get ready for it now! As always, the best way to get ready for the future is to survey the wisdom of the past. When looking for guidance from the ancients on governance, the best possible source...

The War on Masculinity

The War on Masculinity

Quotes from The War on Masculinity will End Badly By J. B. Shurk in American Thinker Commentary by Win Lose or Draw Some men seem to feel their identity as men is being threatened. “I have long believed that one of the most dangerous mass movements gripping the West...

Abortion

Abortion

In 1729 Jonathan Swift wrote that unwanted babies might profitably be prepared as a tasty meal. You may think that Jonathan Swift was insane, but he wrote A Modest Proposal as a satire to make a point. The intended message was the opposite of what the words implied....

Life in Mayberry

Life in Mayberry

The Sunday morning show on CBS aired a piece today on Mount Airy, North Carolina, the small town that was the birthplace of Andy Griffith and that styles itself after the bucolic setting of the Andy Griffith show, Mayberry. The show ended fifty years ago, but many...

Competency Based education

Competency Based education

WinLoseorDraw remembers when there was only one computer for the faculty only at his school. It was in the back of the library, and teachers could take turns typing in tests and other teaching materials for copying and duplication. Two years later he was assigned to...

Voting Access

Voting Access

Who decides who gets to vote? The individual states make the rules, but the actual Constitutional authority remains with the Federal government. The United States Constitution has given the Federal Government the authority to regulate the states in election matters....