The State of the Union

Romney in Fighting FormI think most of the American voters are sick and tired of politicians who think that they can play Superman and Santa Claus all wrapped up in one politician.Mitt Romney has put off many — including the current writer, who admittedly campaigned…

John Taylor Gatto“God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.” (Psalm 7: 11)John Taylor Gatto is one of the most vetted and sought-after experts in public education.He slogged through thirty years of New York public schools,…

Allan BloomAllan Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) is one of the most fruitful and resplendent scholars in modern American Academia.He passed away almost twenty years ago, yet his work “The Closing of the American Mind” (1987) still inspires and…

http://www. youtube. com/watch? v=_W6-5GG_7m8From the first day in office, the Republicans have given the president ample opportunity to cut the spending, slash deficits, and decrease the national debt.Waxman and company have pursued policies guaranteed to explode…

John Donne (January 1572 — March 1631 )Out of a fired ship, which by no wayBut drowning could be rescued from the flame,Some men leap’d forth, and ever as they came Near the foes’ ships, did by their shot decay;So all were lost, which in the ship…

and get them on my side!”She saw student challenges as bread for the eating. I learned to change my attitude to those threats.One young lady was a real piece of work. She was a brazen young one, who had no problem pushing people aside to make a point. Once, she…

Death Be Not Proud — John Donne (1572 — 1631)Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrowDie not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest and…

http://www. youtube. com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=xxLNKnLaDG8For any taxpayer who manifests even a bare interest in how his or her federal taxdollars are spent, no admission could be more disturbing or frustrating the Waxman’s fluster comment to…

Thou canst not then be false to any man. (Hamlet, I, iii)What an example of pressed and hurrried fatherly advice, yet the chain of maxims and epithets does more to expose the folly and naivete of an old courtier mimicking the plain platitudes of royal court life…

Paraphrasing Alphaville’s hit “Forever Young”, Redondo Beach Unified Superintendent StevenKeller remarked about his district’s looming budget concerns: “We always planfor the worst and hope for the best.” Ouryouth should not be…

Anywhere Out of the World This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window. It always seems to me that I…

Speech from Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ I am tired of populists who look to ensnare the souls and minds of human beings, as if appealing to their sense of self tied in with their meaning in a group will liberate man from his present…

Russian-Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky implored his fellow Israelis to look beyond their domestic differences and remember their common heritage and dedication to each other and the Jewish state. They may not agree with their different views on foreign and domestic…

“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute…

He was the closest to Christ, the only disciple who stayed with Jesus, even as He hung on the Cross. Jesus commissioned him to take care of His earthly mother. Five times (the number of grace), John describes Himself as the “disciple whom Jesus loved”….

He lost his momentum one month into his campaign last year, when the GOP voters realized that he could not communicate effectively. He stumbled in debate after debate, quickly attempting to recover the surge of enthusiasm that he has initially harnessed when he…

Despite the Republican-backed welfare reform package that President Bill Clinton signed in 1996, and despite the steep drop in welfare cases in the Golden State, California still had to shoulder the largest burden, in which one third of national welfare recipients…

Iran is not the final threat to avoid or despair over. Newt Gingrich is not the answer to our nation’s political problems, either, a religious man whose chronic failures have evinced a capacity for opportunism, not opportunity. Mitt Romney is not real, simple as…

“The gospel of God creates the sense of need for the gospel. Is the gospel hidden to those who are servants already? No, Paul said, “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who…

By empowering a federal judge to shred current employee contracts and permit the city to redraw its pension outlays, the City would save itself from certain political and fiscal disaster, while forcing the nasty and unpopular decisions on an unelected representative,…

They want the UK out of the Eurozone. With the looming collapse threatening the Common Market, the British public are growing weary of their attachment to the Continent’s financial misfortunes. They have long opposed casting aside the British pound, still…

According to recent reports from the state budget offices, stripping public unions of their collective bargaining rights has enabled cash-strapped school districts and other government agencies to cut costs. Requiring that public employees contribute more toward their…

The reason for one’s optimism makes all the difference.If a man trusts in his own effort or his own chance, then he is doomed to fail:”Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.” (Proverbs 3:5)If we are…

On the contrary, Columnist George Will has argued time and again. Advertising interest a beer drinker to drink a different beer. Whether he will or not is a matter of inner conjecture and cost-analysis, a process which many elitists dismiss as non-existent among the…

Everyone wants to believe in a knight in shining armor, one who typifies all the greatness that man thinks he can create of himself. People want to be powerful; minorities want to feel that they can take down an enemy, as many have brought up in liberal-elitist public…