This month’s top ten discussion topics
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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 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
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
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
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...
The Elites are destroying the country!
We can all agree on that, but who are these people? They are Politicians. Or they are rich people on the right who control the government from the inside. Or they are rich people on the left who control the government from the inside. Or they are highly educated left...
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
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....
Afghanistan What America could Learn
Today on the CBS Sunday morning show, a three tour American veteran, Master Sargent Travis Mills, spoke words of encouragement to other veterans and Gold Star families who may be feeling let down and disappointed at the way the war has ended. His speech was laced with...
Popular Elections lead to Unpopular Results
The Ancient Greeks had a better system. The Founding Fathers did the best they could in a volatile atmosphere that required some less than palatable compromises. The result has been partisan bickering. Today the big money two-party media circus is threatening to tear...








