“Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.” Ambrose Bierce, For over a decade, Dr. James Pesta, associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, polled students about their attitudes…
Tag: history
To Vigilance, Ignorance is Corrosive
The more woke society becomes, the less awake we become. The historical illiteracy that afflicts Americans in the twenty-first century is well established. Studies show that growing numbers of people, including putatively highly educated ones, are ignorant of what ought…
History Is Seasonal – Winter Is Coming!
The long list of scandals involving the Biden administration only serves to further demonstrate the illegitimacy and hypocrisy of our current power structure. If we use history cycles as a guideline, we are facing a massive upheaval. Everyday law-abiding citizens…
Has Socialism Harmed No One?
JERRY NEWCOMBE APRIL 23, 2021 George Santayana famously said that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. That was demonstrated when a Florida representative made a remarkable claim last week on the floor of the state House of…
We are Now Choosing Between Guns and Words
The authors of the Bill of Rights created the Second Amendment(1) for a purpose. They wanted politicians to treat The People as equals despite the great strength of The Federal Government. President Obama’s anti-gun proposals restrict the already weak right…
Fidel Castro Before the Judgment Seat
It is appointed once for a man to die, and after that comes the judgment. So declares the Bible. As everyone knows by now, Fidel Castro’s time to die came over the weekend. The left chooses to idolize the wrong…
America’s Historical Ignorance
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the darling of the new socialist Democrats in this country, recently referred to the three branches of government. She said, they are the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. John Roberts, call your office.…
Thomas Jefferson and the Myth of a Secular America
The contentiousness of the recent elections underscores how there are conflicting visions of what our nation should be. Are we a brave new world in a secular mold or are we endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights? Secularists have…
Time’s Tyrants of the Year
Do you, as an American citizen, wish to remain free, or will you watch America fall to the hands of Communism under the guise of a New World Order? Did you know RINO Henry Kissinger is a big supporter of…
George Washington’s Admonition to America
Last Thursday night (8/13/20), the statue-topplers tore down another statue of the father of our country, just after they defaced it. This statue of George Washington stood in Grand Park near Los Angeles City Hall since 1933. The war on…
A Collective Madness
Love of the Rebel flag is authentic, deep-seated, and long-lasting. Hatred of the flag is a recently invented political weapon. Historically, the Battle “Rebel” Flag, with its familiar Cross of St. Andrew, was designed to represent the historic Celtic and…
You Can’t Kill a Concept
The destruction of culture and history is running rampant in America. We have Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists demanding the removal of statues, the renaming of streets, and, in fact, the very erasure of history. “Decolonize Your Bookshelf” has…
It Isn’t Possible To Be Ignorant and Free
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson It is a sad state of affairs that 43% of Americans haven’t the slightest idea…
The Leftocratic Party Stains American Political Life
What is the Left? Where has it come from? How did it come to be front and center in its quest for non-moral, anti-liberty, transnational governance, and support of unnatural behaviors, easy divorce, easy late-term abortions, gambling, alcohol, and marijuana…
America “the Evil Empire”?
Movie director Oliver Stone told the television program Russia Today that America is now “the evil empire.” This is in reference to President Reagan’s famous remark in the mid-1980s that the Soviet Union was “the evil empire.” Reagan got a lot of flak from…